Takin' It In One More Notch

My husband and I have come to the difficult decision to close down our electrical contracting office in Alpharetta and move it back into our own home.

We were starry eyed when we first embarked on our quest to establish an "real" office out of which to run the business. We thought it would be a wonderful way to help Walt separate his work from his home life. We also believed it would bring more visibility to the business, which in turn would be a catalyst for growth.

Maybe we were expecting too much. At any rate, the office has ended up sitting empty most of the time. We thought we'd have a full time secretary by now, and that hasn't happened. We also thought by now Walt would be sitting back and watching the company run with little input from him. That didn't happen either.

The backward slide of the economy put us over the edge. We have two house payments, and a pretty hefty lease on a seldom used office. We really have no choice but to let something go. The office is the only feasible option right now.

Moving the business headquarters back into our home will certainly present some challenges. One being that we will have not one, but two home based businesses under the same roof. Mine and his.

At present, the room we're using for our home office is very small and will not possibly accommodate both of us. I presented Walt with the idea of setting up our rather nice office furniture in a room of our unfinished terrace level basement. It's framed up for separate rooms, but there are no walls or other such luxuries down there at present. Never-the-less, it looks like that will have to do, at least for now.

We're going to start moving this week. As huge an undertaking as it promises to be, it's still only one small step towards saving our financial hides.

Even so, we are better off than a lot of people we know of. We are blessed, but neither of us are strangers to the tightening of the belt either. All we can do is make the best decisions we know to make, and trust God to take care of the rest.

And we know He will.