Snap-EZ Blog

I finally feel like I’m getting close to being caught up! I actually started unloading our trailer yesterday (we unloaded food, most of the clothes, and most of the bedding the first night), and I’m done with fixing the inventory for Snap-EZ, I’ve gotten bids on the windows and cabinets and decided on the front posts and am close to deciding on the front door…we’ve done homeschooling every day this week – going 4 – 6 hours a day, and I’ve washed6 batches of fabrics for the inserts and simple soaker…no wonder I’m tired!

So now you know why I haven’t posted hardly anything since our spontaneous mini-vacation! And no, I’m not going to post about the vacation yet – don’t have that much time!

But I am going to give an update on the house, and I made an animated gif of our container arriving today (we’ll move non-essentials into this to make more room for essentials during our “live in pole building” phase (we have to have the mobile home off the property before they will grant us occupancy permits! Yes, that means that in the dead of winter, all 11 of us will be cozied up in a 24 X 36 foot shop – but it is heated, insulated, and has a bathroom, so it’s not that bad – plus we are going to pull our travel trailer in there so we’ll have a kitchen, master bedroom or sorts, and second bathroom.). Needless to say we can’t fit all our furniture, the trailer, and beds and ourselves in there and still get from point A to point B, hense the rented cargo container! It was really exciting to have that big semi arrive this morning with it’s huge boom arm and offload the container – we all watched:

Sorry it’s so dark, but it was on the verge of raining and then it started to clear up while they were unloading it!

Here’s how the house has progressed:

A lot more shows now! Four Walls and all the downstairs floors are done! What you don’t see if what they did to my back yard – you should see what my backyard has done to my kitchen – I mopped today and the last few feet I was just “mudding” not mopping!

You might be wondering why we have mattressed in what’s left of our backyard – well, we got a new bunk bed for the big boys, and a new mattress for Jess, so the old mattressed went out to go to the dump, only the kids were having such a good time with them, I haven’t had the hearts to take them to the dump – it’s our trampoline, summersault pad, front flip spring board, and more!

Well, I’ve got to go to bed – so far this week I haven’t been able to stay in bed past 3 am yet – mostly due to Elle teething, but last night she slept through and I just had a plain old case of indigestion/insomnia/there’s too much to do so my mind won’t shut off. So I am WAY beyond tired!

‘Night Ya’ll!

Six Months ago, I started a new way of controlling production – I set up an “Ideal” inventory level for each product! I found I had a surplus in many of the products, but figured it would sell off over time.
Well six months later, some of those “overstocked” products still were over stocked! So it was time to take action – so starting early last week, we started going through every product category and removing overstock items and creating DealZ out of them! This led to the LARGEST selection in our Dealz EVER! I could not believe how many packages we came up with – there’s at least 7 in every diaper size, and in some of the sizes, there’s close to 30 sets!!

Every Set is marked down 30% or more off regular retail, and usually in groups of 2 or 3 – so it’s a great way to get first quality items, at a huge savings – this will not happen again, so get them while you can!

I just finished the Extra Larges, and this marked the completion of this process for all the diapers, now we are digging into the trainers! I have the 1T through 3T ready to be made into dealZ, and still have to go through the larger sizes to remove overstocked items! But all this takes time, lots of time, so be patient if the size you want hasn’t showed up yet!

We should start on the trainers a little tomorrow, and get it really rolling next week!

Happy Bargain Hunting!

Sorry I haven’t been around lately – we took an unexpected vacation last week – that and starting school, having our mobile home on the market, and the usual end of summer stuff to keep me from having time to post here, or even keep up with other important things!

I hope to post about our vacation soon, and update everyone on our house as well – so check back later this week for that stuff!

Here’s what I came here to talk about today though:

We are clearing out overstocked diapers and there’s so much!

So far we’ve gone through the Preemies, Smalls and Mediums.

The Preemie and Small DealZ Sets are stocked already, and the Mediums should be ready either 9/18 or 9/19 – at least that’s what it looks like from here!

These are mostly Prints and AIOs, but there’s some of almost everything – and you can’t pass up on those prices!!

We’ll be purging the Skinny Larges and Larges later this week or early next week – so check my Stocking News Pages to see when they show up!

We will be doing the same thing for the trainers, but I don’t think we’ll find much there – we have the opposite problem there – can’t keep them instock!

Check them out here:

http://www.snap-ez.com/ShoppingDealZ.html

Happy Bargain Hunting!

Ruth