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REGARDING OPEN YOWCHO ORDERS:

Howdy, I know there are still a good handful of people waiting on their orders since the shop closed. I totally understand the frustration or just eagerness to get your stuff, and I apologize for the wait. This is where I’m at: after a year + of financial hardships, dwindling sales, and general setbacks, I closed the shop in August- it was losing too much money, and as hard as I tried to save it, I just wasn’t making enough to cover the shop’s expenses or my own. I gave it an honest shot, all of my blood sweat & tears, but truthfully I’m just not very good at running a business. I probably wouldn’t be an illustrator if I was. 

The shop’s bank account is now empty, and since closing I’ve been shipping orders and issuing refunds on my own dime. Orders have been trickling out, but without the shop, I don’t have a proper stream of income. Job hunting has been tough, and I’ve been relying on freelancing to make ends meet. I’m sure many of you know what that’s like and how difficult it is to eke out enough money to get by. I’ve spent all of my savings, and at this point I can’t ship orders or process refunds until I have a proper job. Freelancing right now is barely covering what I need to survive, and more often than not lately, my bank account is overdrawn. Orders and refunds will be handled as soon as I’m able, but right now 100% of my focus is on making enough to keep my rent paid and food in my fridge. Any extra income I have is going straight to processing outstanding orders, Again, I’m sorry for the long wait times, I wish things worked out differently with the shop, but unfortunately this is just where it’s at right now, and until I’ve got some extra dough to grease the wheels, this is the only update I’m able to give you. I can’t really tell you not to file a chargeback with your bank, obviously I’d really strongly prefer you didn’t; that all comes out of my own personal money, and at the time of writing this my account balance is negative $142.07 - but I can promise you that as soon as I’m able to handle your order I will. 

I’m also not really responding to DMs about orders right now. I understand most of you are kind and understanding, but the amount of straight up harassment I’ve experienced from a minority of customers over the last year has been enough that for my own mental wellbeing, I’m just not going to expend the energy sorting through it all until I actually have the funds to get things moving again. I also do not need the unsolicited advice- whatever you have to say to me about how I ran my business is not helpful to me at this point, and I can guarantee I’ve heard it in every color of the rainbow, along with any and every name you could possibly think to call me. I’m not engaging with that kind of stuff, I don’t care if it’s well intentioned or not at this point. I’m done being berated by disgruntled customers and harangued as if I’m laughing it up on a yacht somewhere with piles of scam money, and not actually working very hard to pick up the pieces of a failed business that I poured all of my time and money into for years of my life. I apologize to all the nice & well intentioned folks who are just looking for updates - that makes up like 90% of you, but anybody who’s worked retail knows that it really just takes one bad interaction to fuck up your whole day, and until I can actually do something about outstanding orders, I’m not going to subject myself to that.

I’m very thankful for the support I’ve received over the years and for all the fans of my work who have helped me get this far. Maybe once I’ve tied up all the loose ends with the shop and gotten everything taken care of, I can start figuring out some kind of plan to start selling my work again, in a better, more streamlined way, who knows.. that probably won't be for a loooong time- - Until then, I’m going to focus on illustrating, and I’m always looking for work (illustration or otherwise) so please please please holler at me. If you live in Portland hire me, and if you’re some kind of freakish good samaritan and want to kick me a few bucks to keep the lights on while I get things sorted, you can venmo me @jimmyknives or cashapp me $jimmyknives666 . Thanks for understanding.

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This is it!! My shop closes in 4 days!! Last chance to get a lot of this stuff- and at a hot, juicy, wet, sloppy discount!! ✨

http://yowcho.co.com

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I'm closing my shop at the end of the month!! It's just too much for me to handle lately and I've had too many issues both with the shop and in my personal life to keep up. I'm having a closing sale to get rid of as much inventory as I can, 20% off everything!! ✨✨ Sale ends when July does, snatch this stuff up while you can! It's the last time most of it will be available!!

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I need to make some bank so for the first time in a long time, I'm booking commissions right now!! I'm very flexible on pricing & I'm open to all kinds of work!! DM me with your ideas and let's work something out!! Here's some examples of commission work I've done in the past

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Brother, wouldn't you believe it, I've got some new dang shirts up on my shop rn ( yowcho.com )

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Today is the final day of pre-sale for my Dolly Parton Fan Club tees! ✨ It's a 5 color screen print on a Gildan heavy cotton tee - sale is closing TONIGHT at midnight pdt, and I won't be reprinting these! They're available on my shop, yowcho.com - snag one now or forever hold your peace!!! 🌸

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⚡️ X-RAY ⚡️

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My big sale continues! I'm screen printing and shipping like a madman and I'm ready for more!! I've got a ton of inventory and a ton of bills so help me get this bread while getting some bread (hand printed shirts, totes, stickers, pins, and patches) of your own!!! At 👉 yowcho.com 👈

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Hey! Some of my housemates are moving soon, which means I *desperately* need to scrape together some extra dough this month! I'm running a sale for the next few weeks! Get some cool stuff with the added bonus of helping your special little fancy boy make ends meet ✨

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✨ BITSY BOP & BINKY ✨

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By popular demand, I'm doing another run of my Dolly Parton fan club tees!! 🌸Pre-sale ends May 10th :^) - it’s a 5 color screen print on white Gildan heavy cotton tees - these are going to be super limited so snag one this week!! I'm also having a sale on my shop, yowcho.com ✨ 20% off everything else if you use the code MEGA MAY ✨ 

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pssst hey check out these nancy shirts and totes I screen printed yesterday which are up for grabs on my shop, yowcho.com 🤫

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screenprinted some tie-dye steely dan shirts tonight :-) got a small handful up for grabs on my shop! yowcho.com ✨