I fully undetstand the housing problem. Especially with services like airbnb making many apartments unavailable to rent for the locals, but i cant but think how many people make their living from the tourism. For example Hawaii Tourism Authority calculated that visitor spending in August was over 800 million. That means pretty many family got their bread from tourism.

Its unhealthy way to grief sure, but the dead dont really care about the respect. I mean in the history of everything not a single person has ever come back to complain about how they were treated post mortem.

Its hard to asses things when i dont know what you are doing, but average for new company to get profitable is about 2-3 years, but its not uncommon for it to take +5 years. Especially if its a new thing like the patent makes it sound.

At the four year mark i would recommend you to take a step back and look the processes you do and try to figure out if there is a way to streamline something on it. Its really hard to notice some inefficiences when you have used to do things in that way.

If you have a lot of competion on your business try to figure what is a thing they do poorly and try to do it better. That way the people who are disapointed for that specific thing have good reason to switch to use your product. You dont need to be better than everybody at everything, just find the group of customers that find you as the best fit.

Also if you chance something you do, dont get too stuck in fear of loosing customers. If some change makes you loose 10 customers, but makes you 20 new ones thats not a loss.

If you are operating at loss raising the price is not unreasonable thing to do. For excample if you raise the price 5% you can loose 5% of the customers and make the same profit with 5% less work

I disagree.

From what op wrote i dont get any malice from the spouces gift. I belive they sincerelly tried to do nice thing.

Would you not be hurt if you really tought you did a nice thing to your loved one and were scolded for it? I completelly understand how it might have upsetted the spouce.

Thats why i would accept the gift and very carefully tell the other side they should not do it again.

They bought you thing they were sure you would like and tought they were thoughtful. Maybe they expected other kind of reaction and depending how you declined it, it very well may feel like you threw their nice thing against their face.

To most people, especially the spouces it may not be about the present, but the idea behind it. Like i dont generally think my wife knits very good socks. If i would go shopping socks my self i would never pay anything for that quality product. But i know my wife thinks i need to keep my feets warm and she is thinking me when she makes them. Saying her socks are bad would not be review of the product, but attack against her.

I would say just swallow your pride and use the newer nicer thing and thank them for thinking about you, but say in the future you want to get similiar things yourself.

I don’t recognise you.