I Started A Sweatshop And It Was A Colossal Fail

They're lying when they say you can start an online business with no money.

Would you be embarrassed to admit you don't have $100.00?

That was a hard truth for me not so long ago. It was mid-2023 to be exact, and the worst part was that I had to shut down a potentially awesome business before it even had a chance.

My business was a sweatshop. No silly, not the offshore, poor country, low-down-dirty-shame kind. It was an actual online store selling custom-designed sweatpants that I painstakingly designed.

I created the shop because I am the world’s most avid sweatpant-wearing slumdog. There are ZERO days of the week when I’m not “Sweatpanting in the wild” over here. (Sorry

Good Humor by CK Steefel

, but I may be more avid than you 😂)

You might be asking yourself how many ways are there to wear sweatpants that someone would custom design a whole shop filled with them?

I’m glad you asked. I had 80 different designs of printed sweats that were so gorgeous you wouldn’t even know they were sweats. That was the whole idea…you’d never have to look like this to be comfortable:

That may or may not have been me on the right…BEFORE I started designing my own sweats.

But after I started, I was rockin’ looks like these: