Desvalido is Closing
May 21 2024 – Alana Becker
Hello!
After a really intense 18 months (although the whole 10.5 years has been quite the ride!), I've made the rough decision to get off the Desvalido train & jump into a big girl day job. I'll be making all current & new orders as planned, & closing the store to new orders on the 31st May 2024
After I close the store I'll finish up all the open orders, then the plan is to stock up on what I can & reopen ready-to-ship in Nov/Dec 2024. Plans can change but these are my thoughts, I don't want to fully close but holy moly I can't do made-to-order AND a full time job babes I'd never sleep or have a day off (she says, not having had a day off in 3 weeks haha)
Some weeks I get 2 orders so I get to eat BUT I fall behind on my rent. Some weeks I get 6 orders so I can pay all my bills, just not the overdue ones from the week before. Small businesses are getting our asses kicked, it's really stressful to live cha-ching to cha-ching, I love that I scraped by for so long but it's irresponsible to keep trying. Prolonged stress can lead to permanent brain damage. I want my life to get easier, I want a steady wage so I can budget, for the first time in my life lol. I want to be able to spend business money on the business, hire models & pay for photoshoots, not be running out of important supplies every week. It's so much more expensive to buy 1 roll of elastic 6 times than it is to buy 6 rolls of elastic! You get it.
To any younger people reading this, chase your dreams anyway, I regret nothing
Thank you, really. Thank you from the deep dark depths of my soul. We'll see what happens, hope to see you in 6 months xx