Etsy is an interesting website on which craftsy people sell craftsy things: soap, jewelry, clothing, ceramics, jewelry, homegrown herbs, jewelry.
I like that the Internet has brought back a kind of corner-store mentality to the world. I like seeing that people are making artisanal candles and selling them on the Web.
I only wish those craftsy people were getting rich.
But most of them are not.
Back in the faraway 1990s, I used to sell lots of stuff on eBay: vintage phonograph records, books, memorabilia. It did not make me rich, and it was often a pain in the keester. Finally I gave it up.
A eFriend of mine crafts beautiful little accessory items and sells them on Etsy. She spends hours making the items, and more hours photographing / describing / posting them. She is not yet independently wealthy, however. (Do yourself a favor and check out her things. They are very pretty. I myself have purchased two of her handcrafted necklaces, to give as gifts, and they were both very pretty.)
One of the other things I like about Etsy is that, when you join, it gives you a “taste test,” to see what kinds of things you like. Kind of like being at the optician: this, or this? Except that it’s: chair, or necklace? Pottery, or scarf?
Afterward, it gives you a list of things you might like.
The first time I took it, it recommended two basic categories of things to me: French Provincial furniture, and silver skull jewelry.
Go figure.
The Etsy algorithm knows my inner soul!
