Packaging
I have some amazing manufacturers but some of them just don’t do packaging. This is a big problem when you want to scale. You need to start out and be lean and find manufacturers that can produce in a small scale but they often are not as commercially rounded and handle packing your products. It just takes too much time to package and send everything myself. At the moment I have a related problem. I have lost my packaging for my COLLECTED trivets. These are made in advance and then I put the items in beautiful thick recycled cardboard boxes. But somehow this box with a lot of these boxes just isn’t to locate anywhere. And because I have limited time I ended up 3D printing the boxes for a bigger order. But it just makes me focus even more on getting everything packaged by the manufacturer. Here is an image of the parts that go into the boxes to hold the brass trivets.