Most freelance hobby artists - including myself - do not make enough in their side gig to have to declare it here though in my experience. Good for you that you do! Do you want to share a link?
Ofc you ask whatever price you want to but I only produce and sell stuff that I would have really liked to make anyway, personally, so yeah... I am willing to pay what I'd ask myself for things that I just happened to create and that'd make others happy as a bonus
The upper limit for legal hobbyverksamhet is quite low though. 20k sek in a year. Even at 200 an hour which is pretty meh you'd only be allowed 100 hours in a full year. 2 hours a week is definitely at a hobby level, but I don't think I have any serious hobby I spend that little time on.
True. Above 2h per week I think that it is more than just a hobby, it is a small business endeavor. Glad that you are so passionate about yours! :)
I draw/paint/sculpt/sew/croquet for my own sake (primarily) though and have a demanding full time+ job so I estimate that I spend 1 - 2 hours per week on my artistic side thingies. There's no real interest to make money so I basically only ask compensation for the materials used
Yeah, that sounds pretty reasonable. I could collect fallen branches on my daily dog walks, but you've also got to boil it, then dry it, etc. and you should also probably treat it with wood preserver once it's carved too - and maybe a sealant if it's going to be kept outdoors.
Unless it's on your own property, technically it would be stealing it. Obviously this is ridiculous when talking about a single fallen branch. But selling at volume for profit it would be stealing wood from private or public property.
In most places I guess that that is true but we have this wonderful thing called Allemansrätten or the Right of Public Access (word by word translation: Every Man's Right).
It allows anyone to collect any amount of fresh fallen twigs or branches, but not old ones, as old branches are home to many bugs, fungi er cetera. The main rule is "Do not disturb, do not destroy" so only if I'd take anything off of living trees it is considered destruction of public property.
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u/unusedusername42 Aug 13 '21 edited Aug 13 '21
Thanks for good feedback! This underlines the message of my post even more but I realize that I wasn't very clear there at all.
I'm in Sweden, so I calculate as follows:
A walk to the closest wooded area to collect free material: 5 USD for effort
Median wage per hour for a carpenter/wood worker: 23,15 USD
Some extra for the design
= circa 35 USD for the product itself
= a total end consumer cost of 75 USD while rounding off upwards