Glass Pack

21/04/2026

My first reel for the Lakeside Food Club feel free to like, share and follow
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122110313222982936&id=61579488090226

20/04/2026

Hi there unfortunately still trying to sell Glasspack/All About Celebrations I have numbers available now, if anyone is interested please whatsapp 0720222390. In the meantime I have started something, please check it out, follow and share my new project and help me get it going. Click on this link to find out what it is. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579488090226

The Lakeside Food Club will be making and selling meals, doing reviews and cost saving tips as well as watching out for food related bargains in local shops. Follow The Lakeside Food Club and lets see where this goes.

10/03/2026

Further to my post yesterday - if anyone is intrested in outright buying the business I am open to that as well. You'd be getting a bargain.

09/03/2026

For those out there who do not know our story -
We started Glasspack about 6 years ago during covid when we saw the party shop was not going to make it due to..... well you all out there know what covid did to small businesses around the world, needless to say the party shop bombed badly and we lost a lot on that one. Around the time I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had to go for an operation, my tests have been clear since and for that I am grateful, but life is different now as some people who have had a prostatectomy will attest. Well anyway as some of you may remember we got the small premises next door to all about celebrations and kept going with Glasspack, with myself and Hilary running the business together and my wife and I actually made a good team, it grew exponentially and reached a stage where it required further investment in order to expand the product catalogue, get a bigger premises, some staff and equipment eg forklift. Unfortunately we did not manage to find a way to acquire further investment or a partner or anything really. Hilary managed to find a job and I kept going with Glasspack unfortunately we had a couple of really bad months last year and cash flow went to hell in a hand basket and never really recovered. I eventually had to move from the premises at the end of last year and have tried to run it form home. Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that I cannot do this alone, I have burnt myself out trying. I now find myself in a space where I am completely overwhelmed and actually don't know what to do anymore I can't close down because of the debt that it has built up trying to keep it going. I can't liquidate because that costs a huge amount of money and lawyers etc etc .... I'm tired so very tired I just want to go lie down and not wake up. So as a last gasp I am looking for someone to partner up with or something anything really. If anyone out there is interested please give me a call on 072 022 2390. Lastly I would like to apologise to customers for stock outs and my sh*tty service of late, I really do apologise.
I find it profoundly depressing that a business with so much potential is failing and it had immense potential and believe me, If you know Hilary's track record with that other packaging business and what it became you will know what I mean.
Seriously if anyone out there wants to talk please give me a call.

26/01/2026

Quite some time ago a customer came into the shop before I moved. We had a chat about social media for businesses and she said that she does that kind of work for businesses. I did mention that we don't exactly have mountains of money for this kind of thing and she said she was open to ideas ie a bit of quid pro quo type of thing well I would like to chat to her again. Unfortunately I have completely forgotten her name and lost her details so if she is out there reading this can she please give me a call. This social media thing is soooooo not my thing. I find it distracting and boring AF. I end up doomscrolling and achieving precisely nothing. I actually kind of dream about removing myself from social media completely but feel like I have to be here for the business.

14/01/2026

Finally! I have a pallet of honey jars coming in on Monday for the fist time in a while. Single boxes will be R250.00 a box, Discounts will be available on 10 boxes or more. Bulk discounted prices still to be confirmed. Watch this space ....

23/12/2025

Seasons greetings from us here at Glasspack. We have closed for business from the 19th December till the 5th of January. Website orders placed from the 22nd onwards will be processed once we are back at work. I would also like to mention that we have been having difficulties setting up our Google page to reflect how we operate since the move. We will rectify this as soon as we can.

For those of us that are on holiday enjoy it and happy new year etc and for those that are working through I hope business is good and you are all rewarded for your efforts.

Looking forward to the new year and rebuilding Glasspack so we can provide better service to our customers.

See you all at the other end

27/11/2025

Moving in full swing. We will be operating from our new premises tomorrow. Still loads to do ..power, lights etc

27/11/2025

The move is full steam ahead. We should be out by tomorrow afternoon. Yes our new home looks a bit like a building site I know. There is still lots of work to be done to make it pretty, Keep an eye out here on our FB page to see how things progress. The business model will change, we will be trying out new things as we go along. Change is inevitable it cannot be stopped, if one is unable to change direction one cannot survive. People will complain about the changes that will happen but happen it must. During the move I will be posting regular updates here on FB to keep you all informed. Please bear with us during this difficult time. Hopefully bt Monday we will be fully up and running again albeit with a very different business model.

13/11/2025

Over the next few months we will be selling off some weird and wonderfull items from the All About Celebrations party shop that we had once upon a time. Today its 1kg bags of coloured shredded paper at almost cost price. Was R194.00 now R164.00 or the whole lot (9 bags assorted colours) for R1450.00 These are the only colours we have so do not ask if we have light magenta with a hint of pink ....ok.

29/10/2025

Its official we are moving at the end of November. Glasspack will be run from home for a while, while we re - group and plan for the future. It has been tempting to close down completely or sell the business and indeed I still have moments. But there is a definite demand for the service we provide here in the South so we will absolutely try to keep going. Please have patience as our service will probably suffer a bit during the move and we will experience severe stock outs during the move. Please please whatsapp me with what you are after before coming to the shop during the move and going forward after the move. Also please don't stop buying from us, I do have to keep generating turnover during the move and it is not going to be easy.

I would also like to take this moment to thank all our customers - you know who you all are, it has been an amazing experience dealing with all of you, good and bad. It has also been quite the learning curve running a business which I've never done before, not to mention stupidly stressful. I hope that with a massive pile of good luck I will get to continue to supply all my amazing customers and rebuild the business. May next year be the year of rebuilding so we can forget the absolute horror show 2025 has been. Good luck to you all and my your businesses thrive.

14/10/2025

A reminder that we will be closed on Friday the 17th October.