Design Dilemmas
Episode 39: Sourcing Special. This week I've taken sourcing questions from my subscribers and found the best of the best of the things they're struggling to find. Niche, but useful, I hope.
As I write this, it is absolutely FREEZING outside. So cold, in fact, that my fingers are struggling to attend to my WhatsApp chats, a disaster in terms of both work and social life. I have plentiful WhatsApp chats. As someone who works from home and doesn’t have work colleagues that I see IRL daily, my WhatsApp is basically the same as leaving my desk for five minutes and going to meet someone by the coffee machine for a chat. I’m a big fan of the voice note. I try and keep them short but almost always fail miserably although rarely reach over two minutes. Sometimes it is just EASIER to voicenote and get it all out in one go than struggle to explain over a text. The longest voicenote that I have ever received, however, was over 36 minutes long (yes,
), a fact that most people that I tell do not believe. 36 minutes! A World Record, surely - so impressive, basically like giving a seminar. Voicenote goals, in fact. It is true, however, that I would rather cut off my own head most days than make a phone call when I could press the microphone button instead. Shocking, really. Anyway, my fingers are so cold today that my voicenotes are edging over the two minute marker. Icy.Okay, back to your quandaries and this week, I’ve taken five of my subscriber gang sourcing questions - things that you are struggling to find, mostly niche, obvs, which is sort of the point. For the last four years, I’ve done a Saturday Niche Edit on my social feed where I take one item and find 12 excellent examples of it. Time constraints have meant this has fallen by the wayside so I thought it would be helpful once a month to do similar on here on my Substack with questions taken from the paid subscriber Group Chat instead. So today, we are tackling a range of topics including small modern kitchen appliances, sofas with removable covers, attractive wax burners, squashy armchairs that ship to Europe and finally, good open box storage so that we can all be more Marie Kondo. I hope you find it useful!
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