Losing you head

 

I wish I could enjoy the holidays, but between putting up lights outside, designing holiday cards for our dwindling list of friends who actually reciprocate and buying gifts, I get stressed out. Christmas...there I said it and not generic "holidays"...was lots more fun when I was a kid and excited about everything, especially presents. It's been a long time since I got excited about Christmas presents. Part of it is that I pretty much have everything I need. And with my eBay side gig, I now and then splurge on the things I want.  

Doesn't help that my wife's birthday is a week before Christmas. So I get the double whammy of having to plan that along with Christmas gifts. People should not be allowed to have birthdays near major gift giving holidays. I should write the Orange Menace in the White House about this. It sounds like his kind of Executive Order.

I was inspired to create a Gingerbread design because it is National Gingerbread Cookie Day and I wanted to try and shill some more holiday products.  Not that they are flying off the shelf despite my shameless promotions on social media.  Truth be told I still haven't sold a single thing off from my Printify Shop.

This chaps my hide because when I was selling through the evil Teepublic platform I sold more than 50 items and must have raked in at least $5.99 before they cancelled my account for unspecified reasons. If I sold 50 items on Printify, people would save money and I would have earned closer to $200.  I am convinced it is because my Printify Shop is like a small storefront in a seedy neighborhood that people are afraid to walk through. And Teepublic is like a mall with anchor stores to reel in the rubes so they are more likely to see your stuff.

I've even enlisted ChatGPT to provide me with a hashtag strategy and posting cadence. And I've even resorted to posted on the hated X platform. I'm still like the Who's in Horton Hears a Who who are shouting into the wind with no impact.

Oh well. That's the way the cookie crumbles.