Roz B. from Yardley, PA asks “What do you do with all the samples you make for the books you write, videos you shoot, and the magazines articles?”

Well Roz, we do have a lot of samples!  Many of them are displayed in various offices, the showroom and in the studio at USAQ, so that guests and customers see how our products are used.  Some samples are sold in the showroom, because we have multiples that were made for step-outs…or, we just got carried away one day. Those that are not the best, but still have value in some way or another, are sold at our warehouse sale held every other year.  And then, many of them are used for samples at shows.  These get beat-up pretty badly, so are often just thrown away when they have no more value to us.  Here in our sales office, one whole wall is covered with scrapbook pages that I made for one of the books I wrote – The Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking Tools and Techniques.  This is a photo of that wall with Julie who is typing in a new sales order.