shopping for knight light

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The thing about having your own business just on the side is that you don't really want to make a lot of money, unless you're prepared to pay a bunch of taxes. It kind of works out for me because that means I can buy camera equipment and write it off. "I'm just keeping my expenses up." Since I'm shooting six weddings this year, I realized I was either going to have to save money to pay the government or just spend all of that money on Knight Light stuff. Hmm...which should I choose?

Although I'm not going to try and spend everything I make this year, I do want to use that income to get some Knight Light expenses out of the way. Some big things that I'm considering: a laptop, a Nikon D3 (drool)... We've also decided we need some items that are smaller expenses so last night Josh and I did a little online shopping for Knight Light.

We have been talking about getting a second camera bag since we first got the D200. Since Josh is my lovely assistant he ends up carrying everything. Poor guy. I thought it would be wise to let him pick a bag he thinks will work best for us. So we purchased "The Sinking Barge" by Crumpler. And yes, I do believe it is as big as a barge. But it's what he wanted.

We also ordered fun camera straps for our camera. Abbey sent me an email with an Etsy shop that sold camera straps about a month ago. I had bookmarked half a dozen shops that made straps I liked. It probably took us a good 45 minutes to select our camera straps. C'mon...it's a big decision!

After doing the shopping, I plugged the expenses into my trusty spreadsheet. Josh looked at me and said, "Seriously, when did Knight Light start making money!?". Ha...I have no idea. Guess I better do some more shopping.

Labels: kodachrome, retail therapy

posted by kimberly, 7:51 AM