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Last year, before my wife left to go back to work in the US, 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 US brands, but isn't. They were charging US 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 US. 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 wonder what kind of business registration is required.
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Hey man, don't knock it… at least she's thinking like an entrepreneur, something many of us wish our significant others would consider!
- Thom
PS – If my wife comes by, hide this comment over there behind the box of lingerie!
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I actually appreciate my wife more than most will ever know. Unlike her unimaginative relatives, her entrepreneurial spirit helped us pull through some tough times when we both made barely enough to get by — that was a couple of decades ago.
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It all starts with a dream, doesn't it?
I used to want to open a place called "Just Desserts" and serve up just desserts but that was long ago and in another lifetime it seems. Now i just want to be able to eat dessert once in awhile! :lol:
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That sounds familiar. :mrgreen:
A restaurant eh? Whew, that's a doozy. We used to have our own restaurant, but with the 90+ hours my hubby was putting in each week, we began getting concerned about him having a heart attack from sheer exhaustion.
It was a BBQ restaurant with our own recipes. After my normal 9-5 job, I'd go to the restaurant and work till close and then help with clean up. It was an insane schedule and we missed out on so many family occasions, weddings etc, it just became too much. I'd much rather tackle a wholesale business than a restaurant.
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My wife's a workaholic. After a year here in the Philippines and not working, she begged me to allow her to go back to the U.S. and work. Some people thrive on keeping busy. I'm not one of them.
Amen to that. Taking it easy is the best way to take it. I can also second restaurants being a TON of work. I've got some friends that own a family style southern foods restaurant. Long hours and hard days are the norm.
Sounds like your wife could handle it, but be sure she learns about delegation. No sense in killing yourself just to stay busy.
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She reminds me of my mom. :lol: My mom has lots of these little business dreams as well, though she already has tons to do in the first place, so these business dreams have to remain dreams for the meantime, I'm afraid.
Oh, and an import business! I have several friends who have been doing something similar, albeit on a smaller scale. They use the social-networking/all-in-one website called Multiply.com and buy bulk items from US stores (e.g. Victoria's Secret) and HongKong sellers and place them on sale on their respective Multiply sites. They sell these stuff to those living in the Philippines. A lot of girls in the Philippines (and perhaps overseas, as well) have been doing this small-scale entrepreneurship for quite some time now. :razz:
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I've actually seen that. A smaller business, like what you mention, is probably the best way to start off in order to build capital. Plus it would start to build her contact list before a jump into something this large.
My brother just opened a restaurant and it is so hard. I started helping him and i work 12 hours a day. its hard to start your own business.