I can't step into the bathroom without them running towards me / climbing up my legs. My poor lacerated legs..

Still haven't dared to trim their claws bc they are. SO TINY.

(I need a smaller safety clipper)

Everything, everywhere, keeps getting trashier and trashier 😅

Over 100g, the prices get insane.

It will be *cheaper* to mail some stuff separately if indiv. under 50g, then group them in one packet.

This is Nuts.

My Big Pieces no longer sell, bc the shipping cost has become atrocious.

Now that's coming for everything.. 🫠

Okay.. postage updated.

Good: for small/light items, it's not much worse by Small Packet. I raised postage 50 centimes.

Bad: I just charged the same, but now it's 2 Euros more expensive over 50g! Yay! all my copper jewelry..

I separated those out, and now charge 6.25 (still less than it costs)

The BEST best part is.. bc Etsy refuse to give us a "Tariff" box, their solution is "just add it to the price" (ie charge fees on it)

..This counts as Taxable Income in France.

(There are no "deductibles" you report gross turnover as a micro business)

I will be taxed on another country's taxes 🙃

I'm.. going to spend So Long on each order, with high chance of Laposte effing it up / having to fight them for a refund.

(Time, not paid for)

Well on the plus side, very few people are going to want to pay this much.. so I won't have to do this v often!

I forgot about the US sales tax insanity - all the crazy different figures that were Not My Country, Not My Problem.

..And the (worse) Currency Exchange Rate.

..How Annoying / full of errors Laposte website always is (we don't have labels). Which I'm going to wrangle for each stamp INDIVIDUALLY

And while we're at it, calc (individually) the tariffs.

The FEES ETSY CHARGE on the tariffs (illegal)

The postage surcharge (assuming it works same as parcel: 1 EUR + 0.40. + 2.5% tariff amount) for each item, to add to postage.

ETSY FEES ON THIS

Guys.. it's horrific.

For the New Folks, the top 2 are sisters (ex feral), and the big guy is their uncle (also feral). All 4 are from the same cat colony nearby.

Jasper the big tabby guy, and my soot sprite kittens probably came from the same place too.

(Yes I have tried to talk to the guy about fixing his cats 😩)

Jasp is always entertaining (even while asleep)

Yesterday I dragged my sorry self to town for supplies, and to get kitten-dose worming tabs for them.

That seems to have been the problem! Both are gaining significantly again. Relief!

(They're prob. from the local cat colony, which has every parasite/virus. Jasper needed 4 doses to get them all)

The Dog takes advantage of my fraction-of-a-second lowered guard and JUMPS!!

Muddy paws all over my jacket 😱

(Farmers wife is distraught)

Me: it's fine Really, I own A WORSE DOG THAN THIS honest LMAO