Have you been in a business? How do you feel about it?

Personally, I love to see young entrepreneurs. On how dedicated they are to grow a business at a young age; to help and support themselves.

Scrolling in my FB newsfeed, reminds me about the time I was selling at the classroom, and today's article is to share about my journey about those.

But first let me Flex to you my sponsors, one of those persons who guide and support me throughout my journey here. You guys can check them too:)

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Bracelet for sale

I was 8 years old when I started to sell bracelets at school. Why I chose bracelet, was because I am a fan of arts, and to see the different styles of beeds makes me happy. I tried to create my own bracelet and my parents loves it so much, the reason why I am so motivated to make more. At first I only make 10 bracelets; as I remember. Then on the first day I bring those at school was sold out. I have a lot of classmate who likes my work and asked me to bring another the next day.

My parents are so supportive, especially my mom who always go with me at the mall to buy different styles of beeds, we bought it for a low price and everytime I sold all the bracelets, my capital turns multiple times. I sell it for 5php($0.1) - 10php($0.2), by this I can reach $20.

It started to change when my classmates like to get a lot of bracelets and will only say "I will pay this on the next day". Of course at that age, all I can do is to agree. My parents notice that my income decreases, so they asked me, and I told them the truth that most of my classmates haven't pay it. My parents told me to asked them the money and not to let them do it again. I did on the next day, but all their answers were "I don't have money", "I will pay it on the next day", etc. Because of this my parents told me to stop selling, and until now those classmates of mine haven't pay it. Lol! It was so long but I can still remember them. But it's okay.

Candy for 1 php

During my highschool, canteen is so far from our classroom so I have a lot of classmates who are selling; polvoron, ice candy, munchkins...

That time, me and my bestfriends have a daily savings, we have notebook which was intended for it. We give 5 php everyday, and plan to use it for our bonding on Christmas. One of my friend have an idea that in order to grow our money more we should sell something. We talked and end up about selling candies. We can buy packs of candies and sell it for 1 php, in this case we can double our capital. Just we need to choose candies with low prices.

We finally bought and sell it at classroom, and it's all worth it; our money grows bigger. But we stopped because our school doesn't allow any student to sell in the classroom; maybe because no one will buy in the canteen. So all our business, ended.

Perfume

This is the last business I tried in school. My father met a man who sells perfumes and that we can create our own scents and logo. My father got interested on this and asked me to layout designs. My father's imagination is so wide that it's hard for me to layout those, I am not good in designing but his trust is so big.

Then everything was done, all the perfumes was ready to sell. I get 10 pcs and brought it to school, fortunately it was all sold out.

After months my parents got busy and father was not able to buy new products for perfume. Pandemic also started and the face-to-face classes need to stop. My parents focus on their work until this business ended.

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Author's love message :

Hello lovely readers! How was your day?

I want to greet @UnicaHija a Happy happy birthday. I wish you a fruitful year Sis and may GOD Bless you always.

Hugs!

November 9, 2021

-Ling