I need a rest!
Thanks for your lovely words and support for the site. So sorry for all the recent changes, but this has been a very difficult project, amidst a very difficult few years of life too.
It started as a small hobby to do good, then became the way to hopefully earn some income. Then it became overwhelming, then life collapsed. And now it’s a mammoth site with lots of good info that’s too important to let go, so can’t close the site down.
But there are so many challenges now. It is too much to upkeep so it needs to be massively slimmed down. It is now a simpler idea to just leave it as ‘a site for love’ and simplify life so it does not become the way to earn a living.
One reason why I have not done this is because I have ‘marketed the site’ to many good people, and to slim it down (keeping what’s most important) means I will have to remove a lot of those resources, and don’t want to cause upset. But it has to be done, as the site is now simply too overwhelming as it is.
Etsy (the main affiliate) has just moved its entire program over to a difficult-to-use system, which means it’s now another mammoth task to remove the affiliate links of the zero waste products and pretty images.
Info must be kept updated for safety reasons, and social media was too stressful and ineffective. Got banned from Instagram for no reason, Pinterest has changed the algorithms so now that’s no good.
Tried to launch a second ‘niche site’ and quickly found that this was going to be even more overwhelming, rather than makiing life simpler. All while trying to sort out my own personal life, find some peace and stability. And while trying to heal mental health issues, now have physical ailments too, on top!
Simply put – I’m burned out.
That’s why all the different ideas keep changing. After figuring out all kinds of solutions (but not wishing to close the site down), there is only one solution:
Make the site back to draft, then rewrite all the posts to leave ‘the good stuff’, and remove a massive chunk of material no longer needed. Then once finished, hit the publish button, add a few affiliate links and leave the site alone. As as legacy to help.
So that’s the plan. So please accept apologies, while the site is offline for a while. Then it can be gradually finished off, while also resting and gaining clarity, along with sorting out my own life.