Pricing a mug without apologising
Slow Clay

Episode 322 Oct 20261 min

Pricing a mug without apologising

How I worked out what a mug really costs me, and the sentence I say when someone asks why it is not cheaper.

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In this episode

  • What a mug costs

  • Your hour is real

  • The sentence

Transcript

Pricing. Most potters undercharge, and I did for years. Write down the clay, the glaze, the firing, and then your hours, honestly, including the ones that went wrong. Your hour is a real cost. When someone asks why a mug isn't cheaper, I say, because it was made slowly, by hand, to be used every day for 20 years. Then I stop talking. You're one thing to try. Cost one piece properly this week, every minute included.

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