Last year, before my wife left to go back to work in the U.S., we spent some time at some of the huge department stores, mainly the SM in San Fernando. We were shopping for the things we needed for the house, but my wife is a clothing hound and kept disappearing on me (into the different clothing stores). At home, she would talk to me about how expensive the "look-a-like" clothing items were. I'm talking about clothing that looks like the original U.S. brands, but isn't. They were charging U.S. prices for locally-made clothing that wasn't even close to being of the same quality as the real thing. She wondered how expensive it would be to start an import business and where to get the clothing from — where we could find a good distributor in the U.S. I told her to keep on dreaming… still, I promised I would look around for her.
Well, look I did. I kept looking and didn't find anything, and shuffled it to the back of my "to-do" list. A few hours ago, while searching for surplus items (things I can bring back with me on my trip in a couple of weeks), I stumbled onto this site and took a good look around. I specifically looked at their wholesale clothes and then later at their men's clothing. Their "below wholesale prices" seemed quite reasonable, but still way beyond our means right now.
I tried to look at more items, but got stuck looking at lingerie, something I really don't need to be doing right now. After fighting back that monster, I decided to call it quits for awhile. Perhaps I'll head back and look at some other things later today. I think her first dream is going to be a few years in the making, but I'll keep looking, calculating, and seeing if there's a way we'll be able to pull off something of this magnitude. You know the old saying: Where there's a will, there's a way.
I still have another major task ahead of me. My wife's an excellent cook and wants to open a restaurant nearby. I foresee another migraine headache in the making, even though starting up a restaurant here shouldn't be that expensive (as I cross my fingers yet again). I'll probably be writing about that in a few days — her second business dream.
