I can't help it, I'm in a low place. I'm a SAHM but need to make money as we are sliding farther and farther into a debt abyss. (And no, because of an abuse relationship cannot leave child with father to go to a place of employment. cannot afford babysitter either) SO I am a technical artist, with no creativity at all. I started using some new equipment and even got a heat press to do apparel. My one "friend" decides that she is too curious and needs to come to my house for the sole purpose of secretly soaking in all the information she can so that she can go and buy herself all the supplies to do the same thing. Of course this friend is very pretty and has lots of friends so her network is larger. Immediately she is doing more business than I am. I am stuck in a small shitty house that needs major repairs and she has a just over a year old huge beautiful house. Her and her husband make more money than you can imagine and we are seriously in the hole. She never told me the underlying reason for her to come over, but in my heart I knew that she had an ulterior motive like this. She also ran back to her coworkers and spilled all of the information that took me MONTHS and YEARS to fully research and test. I'm just so sick over it. Its stuff that I pride myself on being able to say that the things will outlast the lower priced junk you find everywhere else.
So I have another mom "friend" who now decides she has to make apparel too and now is asking me to tell her which to get. Proprietary information. Look it up yourself.

I've been so sick over this. we NEED me to be profitable working from home, but with these "friends" directly competing with me, what the heck is the point. ready to burn my house down so the insurance can reimburse us for all the money I've spent on materials alone.