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We had no guests at all at our wedding, just the hubs and I. Yet we had a crew of 17 taking care of us and we spent $10,000!
Ok, ‘fession time. We got married on safari in Africa, on the edge of the Mara River in Kenya. The ten grand included our airfare, a week’s accommodation, game drives, all the marriage license paperwork, a Justice of the Peace and her assistant being flown out to us, a tribe of dancing Masai warriors, flowers, cake, and 7 armed guards to ensure the bridal couple didn’t end up being lunch. đ
Mike, some folks have email out the wazoo and want an easy “fire hose” option on the forum. It’s actually quite a common link on a lot of forums. Type “forum” into Google, browse a few and you’ll see the majority of the bigger ones have this feature. For me personally, I have been culling my email subs just to reduce the influx and couldn’t handle any more, so I have to manually look up all new posts on the forum.
Jay, have a look at this site https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/
On the top there, you can see a link titled Recent Posts. If you hit the link, it shows you just a line or two of all the posts that have been posted since you last logged in/going back a certain time frame. The posts are from all different categories in the Forum, but lumped together. Clicking on one post will take you to the post in its own specific category.
I think that’s what folks are asking for. Figured it was best to give you a working example. Apologies for the example, but I don’t follow many other forums for eBay stuff! đ
After finding the crappy piece of steel 4-drawer filing cabinet that my husband renovated for me, I’m now totally sold on them. They store more than the plastic totes, are much easier to get into, and everything is so neat. Of course, the hassle is finding them suckers! LOL
While I search, I’m gonna grab these Lowe’s specials. What a find! Thanks for posting, So Cal Joe!
Wishing all Trash Elves a very happy New Year and a profitable AND FUN 2018!
I’ve done no work in my shop for the past two weeks, mostly because it was the holidays, and using the excuse that I’m giving my Trash Elf Twin a chance to catch up to my 450-odd listings before the Twins Challenge. Love having an excuse! LOL.
But my New Year will start by shipping an order of an obscure, particularly uninteresting mug that I only listed because it was in a box of really nice mugs donated to me, to somebody who apparently really loved his and it broke. Now he gets his favorite mug back and I get a warm and fuzzy. Fantastic start to a fabulous year!
Iâve read so many horrible things about eating, drinking and smoking recently that I made a new, firm New Yearâs resolution: NO MORE READING!
I was going to start a Procrastinators Club. But then I realized Iâd have to reject anyone who actually turned up at the meeting so I decided to put it off again.
Why did my washing machine stop pumping out water? And more importantly, where is my hamster?
Father: âSon, you were adopted.â
Son: âWhat?! I knew it! I want to meet my biological parents!â
Father: âWe are your biological parents. Now pack up, the new ones will pick you up in 20 minutes.âDonât you hate it when you come to somebodyâs place and they just canât shut up asking you stupid questions like âwhat do you wantâ and âwho are youâ and âomg is that a real gun?â
Some nice Chinese couple gave me a very good camera down by the Washington Monument. I didnât really understand what they were saying, but it was very generous of them.
I read that mass chicken farms pump chickens full of antibiotics. Well, that would at least explain why chicken soup is so good when you have a cold.
A student at a management school came up to a pretty girl and hugged her without any warning.
The surprised girl said, âWhat was that?â
The guy smiled at her, âDirect marketing!â
The girl slapped him soundly.
âWhat was that?!â said the boy, holding his cheek.
âCustomer feedback.â12/29/2017 at 2:24 pm in reply to: New Tax law and it's effects on your business (Politics free please!) #29518Thanks Annabel52. That’s great. Perhaps I can do a home deduction this year. Terrific!
12/29/2017 at 11:42 am in reply to: New Tax law and it's effects on your business (Politics free please!) #29507Annabel52, is your garage dedicated solely to the eBay business, nothing else? If not, how do you get around this:
If the exclusive use requirement applies, you can’t deduct business expenses for any part of your home that you use both for personal and business purposes.
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc509
That’s the part of the Tax Code that gets me. Our garage is half mine, half the hub’s, and we have the laundry in there too. My desk/computer is in our living room, and I have Death Pile items in almost every room in the house!
Key locks and keys, approx $30 per set.
Ignition lock and key, approx $50
Tail light assembly, approx $50
Steering wheel with air bag, approx $60
Side mirrors, approx $20
Driver’s side power window control, approx $40
Door handles, approx $10 each
Sun visors, approx $25 for set of 2
Console lid/arm rest, approx $18
Instrument cluster gauge, approx $50
A/c or heater control panel, approx $25
Interior lamp covers, approx $10 eachThese aren’t too difficult to remove, if you have a little handyman ability and some patience. They’re also small enough to ship fairly easily. Well, except for the light assembly and side mirrors. They’ll take a bit of packaging.
12/28/2017 at 12:49 pm in reply to: New Tax law and it's effects on your business (Politics free please!) #29475Personally, I’d love a factual breakdown on how the taxes are going to impact people. I’ve heard so many rumors and conflicting articles of advice on what best to do, it’s all very confusing. According to Elite Daily “…the reality is that the more-than-500 page law is so complex that there’s no hard and fast rule for how your taxes will change.”
On the positive side, most sites agree that businesses will do well in this new tax.
According to one articleIt raises the standard deduction to 20 percent for pass-through businesses. This deduction ends after 2025. Pass-through businesses include sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations. They also include real estate companies, hedge funds, and private equity funds. The deductions phase out for service professionals once their income reaches $157,500 for singles and $315,000 for joint filers. Small business owners should delay any income they can until 2018 to maximize that deduction.
https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968
A lot of businesses will open an S-Corp to take advantage of the new tax regs. I don’t think it’s necessary yet, though. We have until 2025 before the pass-through rates drop. However, I was listening to a tax specialist of eBay radio and he was saying that we need to really pay attention to allowable business deductions. Sounds like a plan, to me. My only problem is turning my home business into a deductible business. My entire home is shared with the business, with supplies, cleaning, storage, death piles, paperwork and computer all shared in different rooms with my personal life. It will be a major PITA and expense, right now, to change that. But perhaps I can do it over the course of several months and make it happen.
After getting my knickers in a twist over a low-ball offer, and realizing how stupid that was, I put auto-decline on anything that I feel would annoy me. If I KNOW an item is worth a certain amount, I’ll put that on the decline amount, and then list it for my higher amount. For items I don’t know or those I don’t really care about how much I make, I’ll put the auto-decline at cost plus a bit to cover fees. It has worked well for me. I don’t have to deal with a lot of offers that make my blood boil, and I know that my costs are covered.
I also use auto-accept on some items, especially when they’re high priced. It just makes the whole process quite quick and seamless.
… you visit somebody’s home and in your head, you’re totalling how much money you could make from their possessions.
This is a new feature from eBay. In order to assist sellers achieve their shipping deadlines, all orders now show up with a “ship by” date and time. If you ship sooner, kudos. If you ship later than that time, you get a shipping ding. And Sharyn has correctly explained how eBay works out that date.
12/22/2017 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Possible Way to Prevent Buyers from "Renting" Clothes thru Ebay #29258eBay now automatically accept returns if the return request is within your return policy, so buyers could still return these items. However, Jay has the solution, having it in your photos would deter a lot of them.
My listing includes the fact that signature will be required for all items that I deem worth it, so the buyer has that information up front. I also email the buyer at shipping to advise them that it has been sent sigreq. I put it to them that it’s for THEIR benefit, due to the spate of parcel thefts. I do a daily run through of all my orders (love that eBay now shows the delivery status on the main orders shipped page!) and keep an eye on the delivery items. A quick email to the buyer that it’s available for collection, if it says it’s waiting. Takes just a minute! I’ve had no problems.
I tend to send electronic items that are rare or expensive with sigreq and have had no problems from buyers or with the process. For me, the extra $2 is worth my peace of mind.
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