About Me
I’m Deb Mathews and I’m currently living in Central California. I am the proud parent of 3 children, one of whom is a teacher at a rural high school not far from here.. My other two are 12 year old boy girl twins who are in 7th grade.
I am an accountant by trade and formal education and worked in the alternative energy industry as a controller for 10 years. I began in the accounting field following graduation from college and worked in Public Accounting. I left public accounting when my oldest was 3 in order to be a better parent. From there I went to work in private industry and finally found my way into Wind Energy as a controller of one of the first Wind Energy Companies in the Nation.
Many know me from my involvement in the resale industry with Castaways for Kids and Castaways Concepts. Castaways For Kids opened in 1999 and I was in the background, keeping books and doing the website and helping out in any way that I could considering that I lived 2 1/2 hours away. I later moved to the area the store was located and in 2004 Jan and I opened Castaways Concepts. I managed the day to day operations of the women’s store and came to love it much more than I knew I could. In August 2006 Jan and I merged both stores to create one GREAT store. In January 2007 due to my need to be home, I left the store and decided to begin a business out of my home.
In June 2006, I was a workshop speaker for NARTS, the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops. My workshop was “The Importance of a Website”. I received a lot of great feedback and hope to continue and expand on that topic for my resale clients and followers.
While I do not limit my work to the resale industry, it is a niche market for me that i fully understand and enjoy working with people within that industry.
Deb
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