 I thought I would start like a blog and just kind of document my process of me doing the budget box. It is October the 18th. I had this idea for a couple of days. I'm just getting around to it because I had a busy weekend but today's October the 18th. It is 8 27 in the morning which is a Tuesday and I just finished paying all the vendors. I have a couple more that I want to I really want to pack this box. So I'm like doing the math and I'm making sure that it's over 50. We're over $50. I've just done math for over $50 but I feel like I could just add something else you know. So normally in my morning time I take an hour to do Norris Coast stuff and business stuff. So now Norris Coast stuff is going to turn into the budget box stuff and yeah so I'm getting excited and these products should be here when less than 10 days. So that means by November the 1st I should have them and if the box is if everything is right when I get it let's pray. I'll go ahead and start packing boxes and they'll be shipped out because I want the next sign up to start November the not November the 1st. So I have a handy dandy coffee. I really have a lot I should be doing today. So also on my list to do today is so I paid the vendors. I'm looking at a couple more things that I want to add. I've got one more thing I need to pay. I'll probably pay that when I get off of work today and I'm pretty much paying out of my own pocket for most of this stuff because it's my cost is higher than your cost because I have to get so many things. So right now I'm about six seven hundred dollars in but it's all good. What else? So today I have to work. So in the morning I like to do my you know reflection time, talk to God, watch the sunrise if possible. I'm in my sun room right now and so there's something else I got to do. Oh and I have an essay order to get out today. I'm not out but to work on today but I realized I was out of college dot. So I need to wait for that to come and what else? Anywho, today I'm going to get some stuff done. So I just want to get the vendors out the way. Boxes I will order them. I was going to get those custom made but I'm not seeing any pretty good prices and I'm already like deep. So they'll probably be playing but I can't wait to see the end of this video in like the whole process and what it looks like. But my vision is so clear and it is so exciting at the same time. So and then also today we're going to start you'll see probably in the box but I'm starting stickers like making stickers or getting stickers too. Yeah some over okay I'm about where I want to be. I can probably relax and chill with this but I'm making stickers and I'm going to start printing the insert so I know what they'll look like. Yeah I'm getting excited so I do have a couple more things I need to do. I need to order some more paper, some more sticker paper. So this is just running running me up but it's okay because I was talking to my Facebook group the other day and I definitely my goal is to introduce those who's never budgeted before into budgeting also help anyone that I came to budget and as I was telling my Facebook group like y'all see me do my budget every week um I'm not like the best like I messed up my budget but I just keep going I keep trying and I want others to keep trying so excuse my parents but yeah we're gonna get this party started and I'm excited you guys. So I just had like a business meeting with myself today it's still the 18th it is 3.45 I went to work, had lunch so I was coming home doing TBB stuff and um and so I'm going through you know had my little meeting with myself just like going through there's something else that's going on that I'm involved in and I can't tell you about it so I don't know if this video will be out afterwards but um so I had to go through and get like some product photos and things like that so I'm going through my website you know looking at photos and stuff and I don't know what prompted me like to go to my website for oh because I saw something I wanted to delete so I said let me go on website and delete this item and then so I looked at my sales for the day and I was like um I knew I had one sale that I saw come through but one obviously came in at 4 in the morning if this is you this person they pay for the three month option everyone has been opting let me call my sweater everyone has been opting for the one-time payment and like I said I get it because you don't know you want to see people want to see what they're gonna get and some people just want that box by the time and because this box is going to be plenty for you and I saw someone pay for through my option whoever you are and you have this much trust and believe in me thank you so much and I know that oh now also like finalize I can show it because they'll be out so these are the contents of the box I just finalized today um as I said earlier I paid all the vendors I only have like really two more to pay but one thing I know I have time to pay and it's not that much and um the other ones it's just one thing so I'm gonna pay that on Wednesday and I'm done with vendors everything else is up to me and pretty much I have one thing that I may need a vendor for because I'm trying to sign up with the vendors to do my insert so not but that means I have to crunch and finish them up so I have to finish the insert so I'm working on inserts today I'm taking a mini break because I have neglected my nails and they're getting too long and I'm tired looking at them so um I just had my meeting I'm working on some like I said something else with someone else I have a couple of things going on y'all really um by the time you see this you'll see the brand deal that I'm working with so I have a brand that I'm working with so I gotta wait on those items to come get prepared to do that video and things are just moving for Norris Cove like y'all if you told me this two years ago I'd say three years ago that this is where we'd be I just wouldn't know what to tell you I wouldn't believe you because um I'll just say this anytime that you put your your all into something and you put your thoughts into it and you give it 100% and you focus on it it will start to move you know what I'm saying it'll work for you so that's a lot that's going to be in this box I'm already done the math when I paid the first few vendors this morning I was already at like a $70 retail value so we're already over $50 I'm trying to make it 100 and I'm pretty sure we're going to kind of end up at 100 so I'm going to try to do these small videos and um yeah that's it so I'll talk to y'all later hey everyone so today is November the second and I'm leaving work I got some excuse my dusty dashboard I have two products that just showed up at my door my daughter's gonna call me tell me what's in them today I'm also hiring her and to help me out with this budget box also so now I'm on my way back well I'm on my way to UPS to return this is the best angle I'm sorry y'all this is the best angle I can do on my way to UPS to return some boxes that I received from Amazon I just felt like for the amount that I needed I didn't need to go to Uline they were just too expensive for my budget and I put most of my money into you know the items so so I could get cheaper not necessarily cheaper but um less boxes because they're still kind of expensive but without having to pay like $200 so that's what I'm going to do now I'm trying to vlog and do better at the vlogging but I just sometimes forget also yesterday I broke my printer I pray my husband can fix that um I've done a story today about that um so far at this point we've sold 17 maybe 18 boxes um I'm considering one for promo um I'm just excited and I can't wait I think after I get this vlog up I'll be probably vlogging more I'm gonna try my best because I don't really have an exciting life but this box is so exciting that I just definitely want to show the process and the aches and the pains and I did a story yesterday let me let me tell y'all so I've had a fantasy publisher for like two years been trying to figure it out because I might not have had it for two years maybe one just been trying to figure it out I kind of figured out some things I say about just pressing the buttons y'all excuse the steering wheel um by pressing the buttons and um any who pressing some buttons figure some things out but now I'm kind of having a little glitch because I wanted to have the cut lines and all of that great stuff so hopefully I figure that out today prayerfully my printer is fixed because that's kind of like the last thing and I saved the printing for last because I knew that that was like the easiest part but it is not being the easiest part um I thought vendors would be the hardest part but it's the uh printing and then prayerfully I did not destroy my printer this is my workhorse printer this is my HP printer I print everything on this besides invoices um well not invoices uh labels so that is it so hopefully when I come back I can show y'all what I got um in today I got more stuff coming in this week I have the thank you cards coming in this week I have metal cards coming in this week I have pretty much everything that will be here this week I'll have to print and get the inserts cut that would be it I could do that within a few days one more thing that I don't think they shipped out yet kind of made a mishap and it was kind of my fault because um I saw the sizing was wrong but I just automatically the sizing that they showed on here the size is wrong when I sent it to them so any who but I'm going to just I told them I'll accept it as is they still look good and I'll just know for the future and yeah so that's what we got going on today today again is Wednesday November the 2nd I was actually off today but I went in to do a customer because I need the money like a portion of what I made today which I gotta check my account will go to maybe some last minute things but I don't think I have anything last minute left I don't so this is what it is I'm so excited I cannot wait there is one more thing I want to get I'm trying to debate like if I'm going to leave the box empty or if I'm going to have a design because I am taking a cheaper route with that box with the box but I splurged where I probably shouldn't have I splurged on the wrapping paper when this wrapping paper is gone I probably won't do that again not unless I'm making big sales but it's just I wanted this first box to be just so perfect okay I've been talking for five minutes so yeah I can't believe it's happening and if like I said if everything comes in early I'm sending these boxes out early because I really want to get these boxes in your hands I want to do the big reveal and all that great stuff so we can get on with December's box oh and then I just had a thought today was like well you know what I need to have sign up for summer boxes starting on 15th instead of November the 1st and that way we can kind of have the same situation going on where we can start getting stuff early and also I can start planning for the future months as well so right now I haven't made a profit um I have but it's it's not a profit because up until yesterday was like the profit and that's because we had a couple more last minute boxes anyway um we had a last a few last minute boxes so that's where the profit would have come in but that's still not a profit because I'm going to be um taking that and adding it to other future um boxes until we get enough romance so again it's just not a profit good morning everyone today is let's see November the 3rd the this is my desk the thing is it on so it um part of the pink pink planner sale I didn't get back with you guys to show you what I got uh yesterday in this upstairs I need to bring it downstairs um anywho um I realized I didn't do a plan for business this week my desk is a mess this is what I'm working with I even got my budget planner over here oh my god I I must admit I'm a little stressed I woke up this morning realized I didn't produce graphics for the sale for my um post and the group so I got those done and I'm printing freebies at the moment for the pink planner sale yeah so I'm doing that it is quarter to 10 in the morning I gotta be the work at 11 I'm just trying to get started so this is the freebie and I'm just checking over them I had a couple of oops so I stuck those in my oops bag um yeah it is a morning and I got my coffee and I'm just trying to get situated I'm not showing myself because I haven't long woke up and I look a mess so I'm using my monthly I need to go back to my half monthly but I'm using my monthly to put in things for the sale thanks shout out to my girl planner aesthetic Angela over at plan aesthetic I was like calling her and I was like Angela I'm stressed I didn't realize I would get part of the sale this a lot and she was like you're she there that's what you got a planner for it put this stuff down on your planner so shout out to her that's what I get today and I'm just kind of catching up and I stay stuck on making inserts and trying to resize them that it took up so much time so I'm just not going to worry about it but I'm going to print inserts today pack those up I need to make a long to do this because this is not going to cut it this little paper is not going to cut it this time around because I got so much going on so I'll be I did do daily though um what day was it the first I did a daily because I had a lot of stuff to do I didn't even get a chance to check half the stuff out didn't design a freebie so I'll be using a daily today and um I normally have just been taking my basics with me to work I can just carry it in my hand and I have a small purse to my book bag because I may need to take my laptop I need to take my business planner now my business planner has to come with me so that way if there's something that I can handle when I'm out use my phone for me maybe I could do that but yeah so I'm going to crank out these freebies I got a timer set I think if not I need to set one and I'm giving myself about 30 more minutes and then I can get ready for work and then luckily I only have one today and then I can just focus on everything else um I am doing stickers and I must admit I am just a little teeny bit stressed because again I just didn't know I was going to get into the sale and now that I'm in here it is a lot of work and um but I'm all for it because I beg to be in the sale so hopefully the sales from the Black Friday sale will help me kind of keep funding the box and um right now I'm not making a profit off my business and it's okay because um I just like producing products so let me get off from over six minutes so I'll chat with y'all later so that was giving me a problem so I decided I'm not investing any more money paper to be prepared to print along so um I'm just going to print and type my HP on I think it'll be okay um I just have to believe that it's going to be okay because I want all these orders out today so um today will probably be the last day that I film um because of vlog because this is it everything goes out I'm looking a mess like I just haven't had a chance for myself I did do my hair the other day but it is you know back a mess I've just been sleeping the past two days I've been sleeping really well um I haven't done my skin care you can see my pieces a little dry so right now I'm just looking at my my planner and my um budget planner I'm looking for like what I'm supposed to be doing this week which I know this is the week that subs go out and I'll be releasing the December ones um pre sign up I said Friday which is the 21st oh I'm over let's see I said Friday so that'll be the 18th um gotta be pre sign up over December so it's because I wanted to wait until these got out first and nobody was confused um also I've taken one like two orders that were after my sign up I will not be doing that again because um it was kind of hard to remember because they paid to PayPal and I didn't wasn't thinking and didn't get their sizes but I remembered and I had some DMs about it um so yeah so next week I will be doing the box reveal y'all they came out better than I thought I know I think the last kind of clip or so I was crying because of the printer and everything but I believe the boxes were just a little too big but I was trying to put in there but I wanted to make sure like if I put something in there that needed a little bit more sizing that that would work um and then I'm so upset with myself because this came out wrong this is a picture from the back of my yard the trees in the backyard like what the sun coming up and I didn't I just wanted to spoil y'all I think I could have just left this as a picture because now it's about to be winter when these people get their boxes but it's here so I'll probably say thanks for next year and I'll just do something Christmas for New Year's Eve for the next box for a German card and um I've overspent on this box and I have not done the math on it but when I went to ship some shipping was half the cost of the box so I need to reel some things and I need to reevaluate for the next box I kind of have idea I have to keep my expenses very very low um I know it won't be like $5 per box I already know that it's gonna be like half the box again but this time I did not make a profit but it's okay because I wanted to showcase what would be forthcoming the inch all that so yeah so I'm gonna ramble because again um I need to get I want to just start printing this finish the last this is the last thing I'm printing the last box so I need to hop in the shower do my quiz and maybe today get my nails done well do my nails and post off this trip and I'll show you how it's everything's looking like so that's it and as I'm looking at my calendar I'm on track I'm on time and that's let me show you what it's looking like how I filled it out and what I did was I used this side over here to like to say what are we going on in this week over here what should you do in that week this week and that week and this week so and that has worked for me normally normally I use the side just to list a bunch of stuff that I want to put over here but listing three to four things that should be going on that week um that works better for me this has been a labor of love I've been stressed and my daughter's like you just want to focus on um the budget box like you can actually tell me what to do I don't know yeah I don't know so here we are all right next one I'll be on my way to the post office okay so I'm on my way to the post office I clearly need more of these boxes and bands so this was my last order of furniture so that and it was the mini HP and I had to hand cut this for myself my paper my paper wasn't working I didn't do too bad but I just really feel bad about that um yeah so I'm about to send this um just have this kind of HP to feel and I'm done last two orders on the way out hey you guys so I just left the post office and whoo I'm super excited like I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulder because I was truly stressing um even like down to the last insert like explain it but like next time next year's bundle somebody else gonna be printing that it won't be me okay let's I'll say that much uh I mean I was just still printing like literally this morning I thought one thing would work that wouldn't work and I thought it would be easy but it was not so yeah um just know I put my heart and soul into this I mean it's not perfect but it's my best it's my absolute best