“Someone bought this shit?”
I recently participated in an interview where I was asked a bunch of questions that made me reflect on my journey as Vintage Remnants.
I started picking “littles” from the only thrift store around, which was 30 min away. I was traveling a fair distance to make marginal profits. I would ship, printing labels from a friend of the families, home office. Often he couldn’t believe people were buying pieces from me. Making remarks like “someone bought this shit?!”, not understanding the market for vintage pieces.
I knew it wasn’t sustainable, making a mere few dollars per item but I thought of it as getting paid to do something I truly enjoyed, not as a job. Hearing things like “it’s not worth it”, motivated me to make it worth it, it didn’t deter me. Forwarding ahead 3 years, I’m thriving as a self-employed first generation business owner.
I could have easily let those comments and those margins deter me, but here I am on a sourcing trip in Florida, being the adult kid me would be so damn proud of.
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