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06/01/2018 at 10:53 am in reply to: Vintage Minardi Formula Racing Cap. No Comps. What\'s your opinion? #41479
Just an additional thought – most of my Formula 1 items go to Europe, Japan, or Australia – not sure if you are offering it for sale in those countries.
Buyers in Europe will be hit with a 25% duty starting today on clothing coming from the U.S. in retaliation to the trade war Trump started yesterday with the rest of us outside the U.S.
06/01/2018 at 10:51 am in reply to: Vintage Minardi Formula Racing Cap. No Comps. What\'s your opinion? #41478I would change your title from “Formula” to “Formula 1” – many collector’s of the sport would type in the full name (it would be similar to calling baseball just “base”), and I would add “F1” if you have the space.
Really cool find – as a huge F1 fan, I would love to have found this. Minardi was the Cleveland Browns of Formula 1. They were comically called the “Minnows” by F1 announcers for hall small, cheap, and bad they were compared to the bigger F1 teams like Ferrari. The team still races under “Scuderia Toro Rosso” – which is still one of the bottom teams in F1.
The law basically is that all Australian retailers charge a 10% GST tax on everything – which foreign retailers are not paying up until now.
Those with both an Australian and foreign operations must charge the tax, no matter the source.
We have a similar law in Canada, but the tax is collected as part of customs/duty charges. Our GST/HST is applied the same on foreign goods entering the country that have the same taxes applied to them in Canada.
It sounds like Australia wants the retailers to collect the taxes for all sales if they have Australian websites – up to now, they allowed Australians to bypass the tax by buying items on the U.S. or other foreign websites.
With the U.S. pulling out of various trade deals, expect this to happen more to U.S. businesses that ship internationally as reciprocity or retaliation.
05/30/2018 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41298Unfortunately, I’m working on some 211 x 413s 12oz aluminum cans right now 🙁
Someone mentioned Mankato, MN on here last week and all I could think about was liners, BPA, seaming compounds, etc.
The heads last at least 100,000 labels from my experience, and may last for millions – my warning was just if you are buying a used one it could be very well used and have the head issue that is costly.
If you have a gently used unit with very little cycles on it, you’ll be safe for a long time.
Be careful when you buy thermal printers that are used – anything with heavy use will probably need a new print head – which is the price of a new printer.
We use thermal printers all over the place where I work (print several labels a minute on some of them 24/7) but once the head goes (it will leave lines on the label, and makes the bardcode unscannable or some text illegible) you are stuck investing in a new one.
I don’t have the asparagus near me until tonight, but this website is good:
https://realselfsufficiency.com/foraging-for-beginners-wild-asparagus/
I think the last picture is great – it shows what a fully mature asparagus plant looks like from the previous season – this is a good way to spot where new asparagus plants are going.
I picked some Asparagus last night for this evening – not sure if it is mature enough yet, but there is plenty of it.
Berries are starting to show up as well – they will be ready in a few weeks. I love very flavorful small strawberries – the huge sized Supermarket strawberries are horrible compared to the wild ones.
I would say you are fine selling within your country – I’ve had too many issues with exporting Hudson’s Bay fur products over the years from Canada to the U.S. and Europe. No issues selling them within Canada though.
My last experience was with fox fur hats. In 2015 I picked up a bunch of Hudson’s Bay hats with fox fur pom-poms on clearance – they had it clearly stated on the tag the origin of the fur, and I filled out customs forms properly, but some didn’t make it through U.S. customs.
I think that anything fur, without the proper documentation, would be a difficult item to get through most customs agencies. They may also seize and destroy your item if it doesn’t meet requirements or they think it is from an endangered animal. Even with the proper documentation, I would be scared to ship a fur item across a border.
I always like the stacks and stacks of collector’s plates at every thrift store in my area. If they were dishwasher safe (most aren’t from my research) and were printed with safe inks (some can leach into your food) they would be fun plates to use for an event or holiday.
I also enjoy looking every week in the Sunday Paper at all the Franklin Mint, Disney, etc. junk items that have confusing payment terms and end up costing a small fortune or are part of a subscription scam. I saw one for Disney DVDs that were only a couple dollars for the first few, then $40 a pop every month after that. I also like the junk Franklin Mint stuff that has “only $29*” and then the fine print has (*4 payments of $29 plus shipping, handling, processing fees, etc…).
I did the math on my freezer – it adds about $3.70 Canadian (just under $3 US) to my electrical bill a month.
Where I live, we have different rates for the time of day that are standardized, and all appliances have to show how much energy they use on average. The government even has a website to get the $ cost of running any appliance. The government also sent out meters to every home to put on any appliance/etc. to measure how much electricity they use.
For me, the cost makes sense as I live in a rural location, the nearest “cheap” supermarket is 30 minutes away – so it does save me time/trips and I can stock up when food is cheap as my refrigerator freezer only holds a bit of food.
I follow the search “Buffalo Bills” as I am a fan and buy the odd item for my collection.
I recently saw a “Buffalo Bills NHL Stanley Cup Champion” banner from Hong Kong. It was so crazy, I had to buy it for my office as a conversation piece at work (it was just over $4 with shipping).
Still some are available. I have no clue how such an item would have been created.
We plan our meals extensively. We have a whiteboard on the side of our Fridge with 2 weeks of meals outlined.
Our shopping trips are usually a combination of perishables we need (milk, bread, etc) and what is on deep sales. We bring all the local sales flyers to one store as all stores in our area price-match advertised pricing on most brand-name products.
Our planning is $1 or less for breakfast and lunch. Dinner is usually a cycle of one decent meal (a $5 steak we share) and a cheapo meal the next night (about $2 per person).
Summer our produce budget goes down as we grow our own vegetables in a few 2′ x 8′ x 2′ tall cedar planters I made, and we have plenty of neighbors dumping excess produce on us.
We also invested recently in a chest freezer to allow us to store more meat when it is on extreme sales or clearance (we stock up on meat that is on it’s best before date for a discount), and this year we can freeze some of our excess veggies.
We do allow for a treat on the weekend (usually a dessert or a bag of chips) and the odd case of beer or bottle of wine.
I would say we have learned over the years to be frugal – we use to be the types that would go to the one upscale store in town, buy what we want, and waste food since it would perish because of bad planning.
I had a few financial butt kickings in my early 20’s out of school (job loss, debt, and financial insecurity) that were real life lessons. Glad I went through that hardship then to put me on the right track for the rest of my life.
The only connection between Atwood and Mowat are that they are Canadian writers that basically every student is forced to read several of their novels no matter where you are in Canada.
I think the enjoyment of the books for me gets destroyed when you have to do a book report or presentation on them afterwards.
Mowat’s books are more about living in the barren wilderness of northern Canada and survival.
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