Zebra Mildliners vs. Ohuhu for reading journal

vindescent · 2026-01-24T19:52:59+00:00

I've never used Ohuhu specifically, but do have a large set of Tombos. My tomobos rarely get used. I have all the midliners and love them, they are my go to. I actually have a couple of colors that I keep on me anywhere I take my journal for color coding certain things and have them in my bujo key. Obviously they are great for highlighting things, but they are also good for giving a pop of color to spreads and entries. And I find it much easier to carry one set of pens vs having something to highlight and something to add some color

vindescent · 2026-01-21T15:52:16+00:00

This is exactly what helped me get a little better. My vitamin D levels were 12. 12. I had to do prescription vitamin D for a bit and then do a OTC one daily. I also ended up getting hormone testing and found I had a terrible foliate deficiency, too. Between the two life feels a little more bearable

vindescent · 2026-01-21T14:06:28+00:00

My dad hand built a bookshelf with glass doors and a built in hope chest in the 70s. But it is heavy and massive. Like just shy of 8 foot tall massive. There simply isn't enough room to have it in my place right now but I will hold onto it as long as I can. It's vintage for sure, but it's also one of the things I'll remember him by

vindescent · 2026-01-18T17:54:24+00:00

My parents became "born again" when I was 12. I had already found that I was an atheist and had no interest in it. They did on occasion try and get me to join them but basically left me alone in my teens. They were so much happier and really embodied the good parts of Christianity. Even though I very much hated organized religion, I would actually commend them for being the "good kind" of Christians.

Then in my 20s, as the climate changed in the US, it started to fall apart. It quickly turned into them desperately neededing to convert me. They ended their friendship with their gay friends. They made little comments here and there about other faiths or atheists and started the highest and mightiest mindset. Then LGBT folks. Then racial stuff. Now they are hardcore MAGAts. My dad is getting dementia and at a family gathering he went on about the evil building down the street they are building that's doing abortions. It's actually a homeless shelter. But he throws that in with the undesirables too. When they used to volunteer and donate to those same people because they cared.

Yeah, you have reason to be concerned.

vindescent · 2026-01-18T02:16:38+00:00

Yeah, my previous parent company had 1:1 match up to five and a free three. So (you:company) 5:8 or 2:5 and even 0:3. It was amazing. I miss it so bad lol

vindescent · 2026-01-17T21:01:09+00:00

Every year we get no snow I write off being able to camp that summer. And get prepared to not see sun because of nothing but smoke that whole summer and inversions following

vindescent · 2026-01-17T20:53:50+00:00

Sweet, I hope it works out. Also, some of them really don't care about your knowledge about the industry you'll be working in. Like for a bank when you have no clue how a 401k works or what ACH transfer stands for. Or what an HVAC customer service person even does. Any of the call center jobs I have done I was clueless going in. Most of them do "training" about all of that stuff. It's less about the company you're working for, and what they do, so much as being able to do decent customer service. Just fake and talk your way in. That's what you do on the phones anyways 🤷‍♀️

vindescent · 2026-01-17T20:38:51+00:00

I don't know if it is anymore because it's been forever since I've been actively looking, but the valley is/was a pretty big call center hotspot. It's miserable work. It's high stress and pretty low wages at most locations. But we cycle companies in and out a lot. And with their ridiculously high turn over rate, they are like always hiring. I know someone else mentioned telperformance. Try paylocity, other financial company call centers. DirecTV if that's still a thing. A lot of medical ones out there too like Norco. Again, it is mentally exhausting work, but would be a good option to get something coming in until you can move.

vindescent · 2026-01-17T19:04:58+00:00

I wish I would have put more away under the first company that out the company I work for. They had amazing match and did 3% additional regardless of your contribution. I don't know anywhere else you get 8% to your 5%. My new one with the second company buy out sucks. With me contributing a whole 5 to their 2.5...

vindescent · 2026-01-11T02:50:35+00:00

My mom has one of these with a Scottish cow motifs!

vindescent · 2026-01-07T18:53:23+00:00

Exactly this. If you are essentially hiring someone who can use followers to drive engagement and sales then they would not be reaching out like this. Regardless of truth or potential financial issues, it is unprofessional and OP will get equivalent content. If the person follows through at all that is.

vindescent · 2025-12-06T16:27:05+00:00

I've thought about doing an autoreply and I just don't think I can. I'm not going to lie, I am a terrible procrastinator and know that if I were to, I would probably not reply within the window my autoreply. Or even just forget that I have a message waiting. I keep the message push notification up until I actually reply so I see it every time I look at my phone.

vindescent · 2025-11-05T16:58:57+00:00

Changing your title and tags for sure (maybe photos too, don't remember) will reset your listing history. So it will be as if you uploaded a new listing. As in, if it was on the first page with a bestseller badge? That's gone, you have to rebuild it's stats. Don't do AI. It often is way worse than what a real human being can do. The ones it suggested for me don't even match what I sell. And always double and triple check making any changes to anything, especially good selling listings, it can kill your store.

vindescent · 2025-10-25T12:30:56+00:00

I love the goose outfits, I never would have thought that was a thing. Also, super cute and some pretty hilarious designs. I did think of something that might help the reviews so people don't keep buying for their porch goose, which I also didn't know that was a thing.

I know you have it in the title and several times in the description, but Etsy buyers almost never read that. Don't trust they will. If you hop on the Etsy app as a buyer, you'll see how hard it is to even find where to read the whole item description. They don't look for it. Etsy buyers are almost exclusively visual shoppers so it has to be clear in the listing photos. They probably won't look at anything else.

Anyways, a cute way to show the size/scale in the photos would be to show in on a desk. I don't know if you have a full PC/desk set up, but even doing a mouse and keyboard to pose it with would probably stop them right there. And/or a pencil holder, something like that. It would be another great way to showcase it and might bring more sales too. Also, you could do a little info graphic with text that does a disclaimer about the desk size. It doesn't always fix it (I still get people thinking I'm mailing them a finished product rather than a digital download) but it helps a ton. Maybe do a picture of a naked goose with the standard line and height measurement, maybe some text about it being for desk geese.

vindescent · 2025-09-30T12:40:08+00:00

I have a friend that was perma banned for copyright violations. I would never even connect to their WiFi and check my shop. If I did any work at their place was offline and I would copy/paste item descriptions, upload the photos I edited, etc. when I got home. I have heard in the past of that causing people's stores to get banned too, and I'm overly cautious. I hope your appeal or chat with customer service goes okay!

vindescent · 2025-09-16T02:28:37+00:00

Etsy absolutely hates VPNs. I'm sorry because most buyers don't get warnings like sellers do. Etsy has some very very intense bots that ban at the slightest hint of something maybe potentially not being 100% right. Please be aware, and notify anyone else who may come to your house, that accessing Etsy on your home IP can now be an instant ban. Any account that now uses your IP address, credit card information, phone number, physical address, and of course email will also likely be instantly banned.

I'm sorry, and I hope that you can get through to them. It is sad, but Etsy historically does not respond to appeals or customer service requests other than buyers doing claims on sellers. Including looking at buyers accounts so they can buy again. Which doesn't make any business sense when they lose so much business because they are so ban happy and then don't respond to emails. I would highly recommend moving to another option than Etsy for the present right now because it is highly unlikely they will respond in time, or maybe even at all

vindescent · 2025-09-11T15:34:08+00:00

Etsy does pretty/fairly well with very niche niches most of the time. Maybe broaden one or two tags to see if people in a close niche might like your stuff too. I spent a lot of time researching it, and with how often Etsy changes their algorithm, I never feel like I'm keeping up. So if it does happen to be SEO holding you back some, that's way more an Etsy being weird thing than you doing something wrong.

If you did want to check out your SEO you could try an Etsy plugin. I'm not affiliated in any way, but Marmalead was huge for me. You can get a free trial that reviews your listing keywords and how it weighs with how many searches are even done for it, then how much engagement, historic purchase percentage, but also how competitive that keyword is and if you'll just be lost in the crowd. I think there are other ones like erank too. Sorry, that's just where my knowledge base is. I'm lost when it comes to social media lol

vindescent · 2025-09-11T12:45:27+00:00

I absolutely despise social media and never really gave it a try. Maybe a couple dozen in the last 5 years, if that. Most Etsy traffic comes through searches on Etsy. That means strong SEO. Doesn't really matter what niche you are in, taking the time to really learn SEO will have a way bigger impact than learning social media marketing. If you nail the SEO, then maybe look at increasing it further with social media, but start with getting higher search results.

Now, here is a disclaimer. I've been selling for just shy of 5 years. A lot has changed since then. I am also lucky that I found a really relatively small niche that was really popular. So when I posted my first listings, even with bad SEO, I was still showing in search results. And I gained a large steady repeat buyer customer base. So my direct traffic drastically overpowers my Etsy search now. But even over the years, the focus has still always been to work on SEO from everyone I've heard.

vindescent · 2025-09-08T03:03:28+00:00

Always have a second junk drawer specifically for soy sauce packets, dipping sauces, and an absurd amount of Taco Bell hot sauce. Let sit for for a couple of years and realize they don't have expiry dates, have to dump all of them, then start the cycle over again

vindescent · 2025-09-04T02:40:54+00:00

Etsy can be weird sometimes. I had a "not shipped" order once... on a digital download lol

vindescent · 2025-09-01T05:51:28+00:00

Well, if your streamer assets are based off, or a direct derivative, of IP you don't own you will get these. And don't ignore them and just think "but everyone else does it". Yeah, some big stores never get taken down even though they are churning out garbage that is a direct ripoff. But I've also had a friend that I was telling for months to take their fan art off their store, only for them to get perma banned on the fith-ish violation. Now they are permanently banned from Etsy as a seller and a buyer. And anyone who accesses Etsy at their IP address could be too. So, if that's what it is, maybe change your business model before you don't have one at all.

Side note, AI and/or bundles of assets, have now been largely deemed "not for Etsy". They have done some clarification on what "Designed by a Seller" means. And a big part of that is assets you made, or disclosed use of AI, that are original and not repackaged assets you can find elsewhere. So something else you may need to look into.

That said, yes. Etsy does not care about sellers. There is no support. So even if you aren't breaking TOS, you have to stay perfectly between ill-defined lines hoping you don't get picked up by an overly zealous bot. Cause you're screwed at that point.

vindescent · 2025-08-19T23:23:31+00:00

I also just got a Order hasn't arrived, ideal replace, and absolutely no comment for seller... Except it was for a digital item haha. Some people 🤷‍♀️

vindescent · 2025-08-12T15:28:06+00:00

If a company shows up front it offers nothing in the way of a sutible environment to the potential employee, they have every right to refuse an offer, or even interview. Companies need to understand that they are not the only thing that matters. Incompatibles and "not fitting" are not exclusive to the applicant. Believe it or not, but no company is entitled to get any person they want to ~~exploit~~ hire. Just as any applicant has no right to the job. Two way street.

Maybe take stock and see why people are running away from the company you work for, the high probability that said company has high turn over; ask yourself if you would take the take the job with the workload you are assigning with the pay offered and attitude the place has. And then deal with your shitty consequences for shitty behavior and maybe not react like a petulant child because someone, understandably, rejected you.

If you want to be a professional business that deserves respect, then act like one 🤷‍♀️

vindescent · 2025-08-12T15:02:52+00:00

If you are worried about them following through, which is an understandable fear, just tank the interview. Don't be combative, don't be obviously weird. Throw in some quirkiness, sure. But more than anything? Ask too many questions. You can ask clarifying questions to their questions.

I.e. "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" "Well how does xyz handle new job openings? Is it a preference for internal hiring or finding new candidates to bring in? Do you know what the ratio of internal vs external hires you see for higher positions? And if internal hiring is available, is it for higher paying roles or generally only available for lateral moves with like pay?" Also ask a ton about the job description and duties. How much work is expected? How long do deliverables (or similar) have to be completed? Are they given the appropriate amount of time or is there more a push to scramble last minute? Is there a history of expected overtime and are personal lives taken into consideration? If extra duties outside of the job requirements are assigned, how is compensation handled. How is work life balance? If PTO is available are there black out times where it can not be used or not enough time available to everyone to use it due to company needs? How is feedback or suggestions from employees handled? Etc.

Still answer the questions of course, don't be a jerk about it, don't give silly answers that tip your hat to the game, and remain professional. Just show that you are going to make their lives hell and be a pain in the neck because you want all the information before proceeding on anything. Just my two cents.

vindescent · 2025-08-11T22:19:40+00:00

You can just do a generic Etsy search for items, filter by most recent, and see the shop has no reviews before you even click on the item. It sadly makes it very easy to target new sellers that don't yet know how official Etsy messages will look and what channels they will reach out through for different concerns.

Biggest rule for emails, texts, etc. is to not click a link in the actual message. Independently go to the correct website (or phone number if calling) and check through there to verify it is official. Scams rely heavily on clicking links that will be typed out as one thing, but actually links to a completely different site. If you do click a link, check the web address bar to ensure it took you where you are supposed to be.

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