How To Make Dough With Printify, In 2026

Nov 25

2024 was the year I decided to figure things out. Like, what in the heck am I going to do for retirement? It would be simple to say that I could rely on my husband, but how will I buy my grand babies all of the things; not things really (because hello, minimalism!), but take them places and eat lots of delicious foods together. Work? Wait, don’t I want to be present for them and their mamas (I have 4 girls!). Look, I’m the first person to say not to worry about tomorrow (hello again, minimalism!), but I am a planner by nature and worry about money more than I would like. Maybe because growing up we didn’t have any. But what I know about America is that even though we didn’t have ‘any’ money, we still had food and family and that meant we had what we needed. So, America — land of the brave and home of the free, but mothers are basically slaves to the home and careers. I couldn’t work full time and raise babies and have lots of babies. It wasn’t sustainable for my mental health. I worked 12 years in a job that I absolutely hated. The customers were downright mean (not all of them, but most) and the market would fluctuate that I would be counting my blessings during lay-off season, which seemed to have come around at the most vulnerable times for families — like right before Christmas. It was a horrible race to be in and circumstances I’ll mention in another blog led to my fallout. Which wasn’t really a fallout, it was more like a miracle in disguise. But, what to do when your career doesn’t fulfill you or it’s just too expensive to work and pay for daycare? Well, back to being in America — the options are endless! Not easy, but endless. I’m going to narrow down all of the options for you in this blog post, by telling you about one thing I’ve been working on lately that has been both reward and easy(ish).

I used to design shirts and my husband would print them and we would sell them on my website. It was a website about ‘grace’ and I drank a lot of coffee back then. One things hasn’t change & that’s my coffee consumption (okay, I only drink a cup in the morning), but I really absolutely LOVE coffee and would drink more if I wasn’t nursing or if I money grew on trees (Starbucks is my jam!). The thing that has changed is that I no longer blog about grace. The more I blogged, the more I realized I was just kinda whining about how miserable my motherhood was and how God was fixing my misery by offering me grace. This also hasn’t changed, but I needed to get in touch with myself on a deeper level, plus I dropped out of church, so blogging about it just didn’t feel authentic. We moved, my husband got a different job and printing shirts were no longer an option. I lost my only unpaid employee, yikes! It kind of all happened simultaneously and when we moved, I brought my printing stuff thinking I would be able to do it myself. As my baby got bigger (she was only 3 months when we moved!), it got to the point where I couldn’t even pull out the printing equipment without paint and everything else getting everywhere! Plus, my husband’s work schedule has always been all over the place, so finding time to print shirts without the kids around was next to impossible. Sad, but kinda needing to let go — I got rid of our printing stuff and said goodbye to graphic tees.

The printing equipment was GONE, but the desire to wear my heart on sleeve & ‘coffee cures & Jesus saves’ on my chest, never fully left. I had been thinking about it for years and finally decided that I needed to just do something about it. We did buy some printing stuff and printed some shirts for the kids, but live in a tiny house and can only do that on a really minimal level. Not to mention, I still can’t rely on my one and only unpaid employee (my husband). He does what he can and does a great job at it, but he only does it for fun & I’m doing it for my retirement (oh yeah, that!). So, last year I decided to ramp up my empire again and do some research on how to start a YouTube channel. While binging the internet about YouTube and its opportunities for content creators, I stumbled upon a video about ‘print on demand’ companies! The video I watched in particular was specific to a company called Printify! Say what?! I can wear my heart on my sleeve & ‘coffee cures & Jesus saves’, without ever having to host a single tool or shirt in my home? The answer — heck yeah! & you can too! Head to my shop, here to purchase one of tees and/or sweatshirts.

But, the even better news is that hey — we all need to wear clothing. Why not design it, wear it, take a picture & post it all over the internet to sell it. When I purchase shirts & sweatshirts from my own brand — I’m investing in my business. It costs no money to host your products on Printify. Plus, you’re not paying storage fees or using space in your home to house tools or shirts. We still do have some printing supplies and plan to print when I can start selling more shirts. But because we live in a tiny house, Printify has been a God send!

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