That stuff in your life has nothing to do with your shop and isn't the reason you opened. The reason I opened was to buy a new tail. This is a fundraiser. I figure by informing everyone of that it would help me out more instead of making them think I'm just collecting money for jewelry or something because I'm not. I have one goal. I don't have any idea why people would have to hunt and peck for info when all the updates and info is located in the accessories thread where the list of shops are. This is one thread here and classifieds simply saying I have a shop and provide the link. Anything else about it is in the correct thread and that was the first place I posted too. I know not everyone looks in the accessories thread but still like to buy accessories from stores. When I was new I never looked in accessories even though I bought accessories. I only discovered accessories when I decided to make them. I'm not sharing a story about how I can't pay bills. I'm sharing a story about how I'm raising money for a tail and no one supports me and its worse now since my shop isn't taking off after a month. This applies to my store not something completely irrelevant. I can never advertise too much because I can't expect to open my store and sit there and hope I get discovered because I'm one out of a million. I know this is the main place mermaids congregate and this is the best place to advertise. I know for me the more I see a link the more I get curious about it and click it. Personally when I see one ad I brush it off and not bother with it. This is supposed to be a community of support not tearing people down when they finally get the courage to do something way out of their comfort zone. I am naturally a very reserved person who doesn't go out a lot and this is a major step for me to do anything like this. This requires me to work with people which I never do so this is a huge stepping stone for me. I am a very shy and soft spoken person. I'm the one hiding in the back not saying a word and doesn't like to be called out or be center of attention and don't even know how to be. This is coming from a person who did speech class online because I didn't want to stand in front of people and deliver a speech. I'm that terrified. So this is Huge for me to actually sell things I made to the public. When someone lives in an environment of negativity it eventually leads to looking for support elsewhere in the community when I finally did decide to work with the public. I found a talent I didn't know I had and want to share it with the world is all. Now you can see why I'm so excited because this is nothing like I normally do. I was so hesitant to open and then finally pushed myself to do it. I guess keeping my mouth shut is what I should keep doing since it hurts me more than helps it seems. Sorry I'm annoying everyone.