One long overdue patch project I've started is cleaning up my stores.  Because of the way I list patches I don't start off with items having assigned categories in the store.  Yesterday when I looked at OApatch I saw that about 25% of the items were listed in the "other" category.  So after some house cleaning I've cut that in half and by the end of this weekend I hope to have it all cleaned up.

I have a similar problem on my main store Patchblanket because about 6k items are cross-posted on my off-eBay Shopify store.  Just yesterday I figured out how to go in and change the store category for those.  Now that will take a while but I'll start working on it too.  I did delete some pages on the store that had broken links. 

• OA Flap Lodge 110 Pokagon S?
• OA Abooikpaagun Lodge 399 S14 1948-1998 Flap PN
• Tsisqan Lodge 253 OA X4 Patch 40th Anniversary BS Mint
• BS Order Of The Arrow 75th Turtle Drop Ribbon & Sterling
• Lot of 5 BSA OA Flap Patches Lodges 354,379, 393, 402,406
• Boy Scout OA 135 Achunanchi Lodge 1998 NOAC Flap 1713JJ
• Mikanakawa Lodge 101 F1b OA Flap Patch Boy Scouts OA Mint

Where this issue of store categories really hits home is 5dollarpatchstore where I have no categories set up!  I've talked to Brad England about some ideas to grow that store and it starts with making things easier to find.  There is no getting around the fact that if you want to sell stuff you have to list it so that's another challenge I'm working on. 

It's a little ironic that it takes a pandemic for us to slow down and get to the long postponed projects.  For example in our backyard we have worked hard every weekend and now have two raised bed gardens recycled from the wooden play fort that the previous home owners had erected.  Now in patch land I'm tending to these store categories which have been a problem for a long time.