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Question for the Bumpie entrepreneurs?

cwhip77cwhip77
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All you ladies who have side businesses (Etsy, photos, whatever): when do you work on your projects?

I work part-time but I've been wanting to do something creative for awhile now and maybe sell on Etsy, haven't quite found exactly what yet but it'd probably be party related, and I'm just wondering how you ladies fit that into your life?   Do you try to pack it into those golden naptime moments?  Do you set aside certain days/times?  When you do, does DH take care of your little ones or how does that work?  Or do you just not sleep?  :) 

I'm working on some projects for friends & family right now to get a little more experience and see what I might want to do, but I worry that if I did this for real either I'm going to be losing a lot of sleep, or hubby/kiddo aren't going to get much attention.  :(  How do you juggle everything?

-Deborah
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  • MrsAmyBMrsAmyB

    Mostly after 8pm when my kids go to bed. Sometimes during naps.  My actual work takes place on the weekends or sometimes during the weekand I get a sitter or the husband to watch the kids then.

     I go to bed at 1am and get up at 9-ish.  My kids sleep from 8pm-9am.

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  • blueLu25blueLu25
    During the times when my shop is busiest, I mostly work at night, until my eyes wont stay open any longer :) And nap times. A lot of times tho, I just do a bit here and there during the day when they are playing well on their own. When I have orders that really need to get finished, I will ask dh to be the "main" parent when he gets home so I can work on stuff, and he doesnt mind. He likes having whatever playtime he can get with them. Also, I do a LOT of stuff on the weekends. I just try to keep in mind how long things take to make, and only list reasonable stuff in my shop (for ex, I dont do a lot of toddler sizes b/c they take twice as long as 0-12 month sizes. I'll do some for a show but not normally). GL!!
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  • DAWNNA76DAWNNA76

    I do everything at night usually after the boys go to bed. Otherwise I carve out times when DH can keep his eye on them.

    granted I dont have a etsy shop and only work word of mouth so I am not all that busy.

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  • doublemdoublem
    I've been doing stuff after E goes to bed (I'm a night owl and stay up late anyway, and it's better to be doing something more "real" than surfing the interweb), or when DH gets home from work for a bit.  Right now it's hard to work while she plays because she's crawling and cruising and standing all wobbly on everything. 
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  • spacystasispacystasi
    That's the golden question, right?  I usually try to work during nap times and then I abandon my boys after dinner and lock myself in my office.  Sometimes it feels like I'm forever working and when I'm busy I hardly have a spare moment to myself.
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  • DrunkenDenMotherDrunkenDenMother

    While DH does bath, after bedtime, a few minutes in the morning, on my lunch break, while I am drying my hair...etc!  We are mad dog busy right now so I do stuff whenever I have a second.  I will say that Jas and Ads probably get the shaft a bit, but they both love the daddy/daughter time.

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  • KNemoKNemo member
    I haven't had the opportunity to totally get my biz up and running yet, but I am doing a lot of word of mouth invites/book templates/birth announcements/logos. I am finding it really hard to find time right now because the summer is usually the busiest time for my actual job, but I do sneak in some work at nap time, after bed time, and on weekends when N takes Max.
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  • MelodyFergMelodyFerg

    After bedtime for me and sometimes I have the machine running during dinner since it is in my kitchen (much to my husband's chagrin) during the week and then naps and nighttime on the weekends.  I try to not let it cut into family time too much!  Having a full-time job during the week means there are 40plus hours a week I can't do it, so I have to squeeze it in.

    We find that people want things like tomorrow...so it has been hard to get ahead or to take our time on things.  But having three people has made it easier to take a break when we need too.

    The part I wasn't expecting was how much time the "business" side of things takes.  Like the emails, conversations, promoting, money, follow-up, post-office, etc.

    Good Luck!

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  • appleciderapplecider member

    DH writes apps during nap time and sometimes for an hour or so after bedtime.  He can check email or kick off a computer process in the little 2 minutes breaks that happen here and there.

    It probably adds up to 15 to 20 hours a week.  On top of the 40+ hours a week he takes care of C.  I seriously don't know how he juggles everything.

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