I gotta be honest, it's very hard for me to write this, but like many other small businesses we're struggling in a bad way and we need your help to stay in business. What would be really helpful if you're in a position to do it: Buy a gift card to help us with cash flow so we can take care of our people. While DEFY has always maintained a very fiscally responsible, nimble and non extravagant business model and saved for emergencies, times like this are putting a stress on our little organization that truthfully takes the mind to not so good places. It's about survival now. It’s times like these we need to DEFY Together. While you’re at home working remotely please consider supporting a small business. Many of their employees simply won’t get a paycheck if people aren’t buying. Big and small purchases alike give them wind in their sails and help them breath as they try to ride out this storm together. I know this first hand, as when our company makes a sale my phone makes a loud old cash register sound, ‘Cha-Ching!’. (It annoys my wife and makes my twin girls dance around and get excited ;)



We ask you from the bottom of our hearts if you have an order with us that you’re having to wait for because of any Covid-19 interruptions, PLEASE DON'T CANCEL YOUR ORDER. A couple of folks have and it puts even more financial stress on payroll. We’re working harder than ever and are very much hoping you’re able to have patience, DEFY fear and still keep your order with us. Our workers need it more now than ever and we've already invested money and time on starting them.



When your purchase comes through our system it triggers a series of events within our little company where very expensive materials are ordered from many parts of the world and our production team starts working on each small batch. For DEFY and our friends' small businesses to survive this, we need you, our Defy Family. Yes, you may not get to rock a bag at the office for a bit, but you will in the future and many of our other bags have great application outside of the office. More people are cycling than ever = Mashup. Grocery shopping = Cargo Hold. Walks around town = Insidious. The list goes on and on.



Let’s not make social distancing anti-social distancing. Please support small business and let’s DEFY TOGETHER! OTIS HEALTH UPDATE

When it rains it pours, unfortunately. A lot of you have been asking how Otis is doing after learning he was sick. It's with a tremendously heavy heart that I need to share our beloved shop dog Otis is very sick with Cancer. We've tried our best to compassionately treat him, but he's sadly taken a very sharp drop in his daily quality of life. If it were any other time I'd encourage everyone to stop by and spend some time with the guy. But these aren't normal times, and he's not even coming into the shop anymore. He'll be 6 years old in a few days, which I know is even a short life for a Berner. But what I've told myself and my co-workers is this: Because I've been blessed with basically spending all day and night with him for all that time, in my mind I've experienced 12 glorious, best buddy ever years that I wouldn't trade for the world. So hug your pooch or pet closely through this and put out some good thoughts for our buddy to find the peace he so deserves.