Day two, while not as phenomenally successful as day 1 in terms of sales, still had plenty of rewards, and the takings were close to my previous single day sales, ad £329. That made the grand total £929 - an amazing income for two days of sales. Being a bit of a geeky statistics-minded computing teacher, I had to work out the hourly rate! On Saturday the sale was open from 9am until 7pm - ten hours in total. So £600 over the day works out at about £60 per hour. On Sunday we were trading from 10.30am until 5pm - a total of 6.5 hours. That made the hourly rate £50.61 or thereabouts. Overall, the hourly income worked out at £56.30 - not a bad rate of income!
I had some lovely moments - selling the two hippo footstools I had completed that morning within the first hour was one of them! The repeat customers who came to add to their menagerie were very welcome - but equally so were two girls, Molly and Sophie, who came and enjoyed Comfy Humphrey and were very interested in the project. They asked all kinds of questions - and told other customers what they had found out. I was very tempted to employ them as sales assistants - they were very convincing and very knowledgable! Molly and Sophie - if you read this, thank you! I hope you will come and see me again, whether or not you decide to save up your pocket money to buy an animal - or a Humphrey!
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Here is Jaqcui's photo of my stall on Saturday, proving how busy I was!
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