scared...

[oskimbo]

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Originally Posted by BelleMãe

actually its social anxiety disorder...lol... but yea might have the other SAD too, considering we have 3 ft of snow here.

Happy pills dont always make you have some can really make you feel like shit.

[Tanning Queen]

Belle has 3 boobs! We want pictures!

[moviemat]

Ok i can't believe what i have just read. I've been in business 25 years the first 10 selling tanning tubes in Alberta and the last 8 years with a salon in my store (NO Overhead I was already there), and i'm telling you Bella listen to these people you are making a huge mistake.
The last thing you want is every twisted idiot coming to your home to tan, you have kids think hard about this!!! And i have news for you, you do have overhead, how about insurance home and business!! Don't open now you are wasting your time, go enjoy the summer and deal with this in the fall.
We had no overhead as you have stated also and we got out of the tanning business, want to buy some beds? see www.moviemat.com i'll cut you a great deal.

But seriously don't bring people too your house, unless you want them too see what they can steal, after all you live in a 1/2 million dollar trailer.

[BelleMãe]

[moviemat]

Don't make the mistake of leasing or buying anything new, there are a ton of used beds out there get them and save a ton of cash. If i ever opened another salon i would never touch new, get some used ones and get that handy guy of yours to fix them up. You won't regret it, especially when you go to dump the beds you will take less of a bath.

And i still wouldn't want any customer to know where i live, have had too many problems in the past, but this you will learn the hard way. You should be SCARED, the only home based business that is safe is an internet one!!!!

Alarms and Dogs don't work cut the phone line poison the dog and bam your in. And this i have learned from experience, which sounds like you want to learn from your own experience, good luck and may the lord watch over your children.

I feel sorry for your dog, it's a shame he will be the first victim!

[BelleMãe]

[moviemat]

Sh*t Happens everywhere, becareful!!

[BelleMãe]

[lewdyju]

Oh my, I thought you were having them enter through the outside into your basement. In your front door of your home, YIKES girl! What restroom facility will they be using? So, will you be escorting every customer in and out of your home? There will be times when you won't be able to see where these people are. I am all for you having a salon, but I would tell your husband you're taking the garage period!

[BelleMãe]

[lewdyju]

I would wait, wait until 2008 for the retail center if he isn't willing to rethink the garage. You are from a small town and probably know everyone, or think you do. You also mentioned how fast growing you are, lock in a lease with the new retail center and go from there. You are excited about this, I know i have been there. You want it with every fiber of your soul, but please think about your children. Your home is exactly that, it is your safe haven for you and your family. It only takes one sicko, weirdo, nasty child molestor to now know where you live. Knows your childrens names, knows what your home floorplan is. Someone could very easily sneak around your house, leave a window unlocked and sneak into your home when you are sleeping and do anything. Crime can happen anywhere, even your sweet small town. If you can't have your garage, wait for the retail center. Get tanning exclusivity with your landlord and keep doing your homework. I don't want any of my clients knowing where I live. I never answer my door if someone is there that I don't know. This is my home, and you weren't invited.

[Tanning Queen]

This industry seems to bring out the freaks at times. Everyones concerns are valid. Remember, you are offering a very private and personal service. People get naked. Not many other HBB's offer services where you get down to your b-day suit. Maybe massage. But that is a one on one service and you can control where they go and what they do since it is only you and them. If you are running the beds along with watching the kids, you might be in for more than you can handle. Cleaning the rooms while you have drop in day care can be rough too. Are you still planning on watching kids like that while you have the salon? Make sure they are tied up when you clean cuz they can do alot of damage in 5 min.

I really wish you had a separate entrance for this. It doesnt feel good to me to let them in the front door.

[Din]

You can have a separate playroom for kids with knives and glass to keep them busy.

While the kids are playing and the customers are walking themselves out of your house and take your Television on the way out.....you can leave a candy for them at the door.

[Shan]

Send the kids out to steal DIN's bulbs while you are tending to the salon...

[TonyG]

I wouldn't want any strangers in my house.

Maybe you could buy a trailer and park it on your lawn and put two tanning beds in it, and call it a tanning salon.

If you're going to have a trailer trash business, might as well get the trailer.

[Tanning Queen]

Oh stop with the "trailer" aspect. Most likely it is a modular home type thing. Nothing wrong with that. Move on with the type of home. Deal with the aspect that there is no separate entrance.

[BelleMãe]

[Brian Oshman]

It's time.



Bella Mae,

You are hittin' the pipe. Since you are so inclined to scoff at everyones advice (great advice at that) I hope you get corn holed by some crazy a$$ mutha and he kidknaps your kids and ties up your husband and corn holes him too for letting you go through with such a bird brain idea as opening your home to strangers.

Never mix business with your home life. Crime can happen anywhere, anytime and the ones most suseptable to intrusion are the ones that think it will never happen to them. The ones that think they are immune. The ones that think it will never happen in their home, town school, church, shopping center. I mean after all no one would let anything happen, right?



Opening your home leaves yourself open to problems and all it takes is one. Only one, and your life is changed forever.

Think really, really hard about what is really important to you before you make such a bad decision.

Awaiting flames.

[Brian Oshman]

(thats to tow my trailer)

Uh oh,

I take it you are a horsey person, no?

Watch out for these kooks.

[Brian Oshman]

hubby is still not biting...perhaps I can tell him it will lower insurance (no steps less liability)

If he gives up his garage, he has no stones.