The Original O'l Farts Club.

[Travis Kelcee]

Cash is still king around here.

Nowadays I give the customer a materials list for the job with my suppliers discount and let them deal with buying and transporting the materials.

My estimate only includes the labor for the total number of days the job will take. If it's a big job I get paid after every 5 days unless it's a repeat steady customer.

I always estimate a day or more than I know it will take. Customers love it when you tell them 10 days @ $350 a day and then finish the job in 8 days. Instead of the $3500 they budgeted for labor they only end up paying $2800.

 

[jokerman]

Meh. Ya shoulda married a Scottish witch. I never saw any interlopers in 66 years around the Sneakydicker househole, but I did find a couple of husks and some scorched denim...

or my buddies wife who can put 3 rounds with great grouping center mass and knows to put one in the head whence down

 

[kevinn]

I don't wanna move, I built this place to be my forever home...I gotta have land to roam, trees to sit under, I'm digging the farm life...as far as a legal state, I don't see how that would effect me...never have...

Just buy a travel trailer and move it to different parts of your land for a different view. Then you can always walk home for things you need.

 

[bigsur51]

Nowadays I give the customer a materials list for the job with my suppliers discount and let them deal with buying and transporting the materials.

My estimate only includes the labor for the total number of days the job will take. If it's a big job I get paid after every 5 days unless it's a repeat steady customer.

I always estimate a day or more than I know it will take. Customers love it when you tell them 10 days @ $350 a day and then finish the job in 8 days. Instead of the $3500 they budgeted for labor they only end up paying $2800.

under promise
over deliver

great strategy

 

[dogzter]

or my buddies wife who can put 3 rounds with great grouping center mass and knows to put one in the head whence down

Mag dump center mass quick as she can then swap and scan........she likes that drill.

 

[jokerman]

Thank you fot your support OM. But this is our thread…we all work together to make the OFC what it is.

We rely on you for automotive decisions.

 

[jokerman]

you should hear her mom


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I should be so lucky.

 

[Countryboy]

 

[Travis Kelcee]

under promise
over deliver

great strategy

As long as you over deliver a high quality product

It leads to a lot of Tips and referrals at the end of the job

 

[Countryboy]

wasn’t always that way


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Thanks Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln imposes first federal income tax | August 5, 1861 | HISTORY

On August 5, 1861, President Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act. Strapped for cash with which to pursue the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress agreed to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800. As early as March 1861, Lincoln had begun to take stock...

www.history.com

 

[dogzter]

Thanks Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln imposes first federal income tax | August 5, 1861 | HISTORY

On August 5, 1861, President Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act. Strapped for cash with which to pursue the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress agreed to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800. As early as March 1861, Lincoln had begun to take stock...

www.history.com

There's a connection there that weaves though our history ever since........and why it will never stop.

 

[kevinn]

Hey @oldmaninbc hoping I get a new led from Amazon for Christmas...the one I want is like $50. I have great seeds. Pots. The light I have isn't going to be enough. I don't need a tent but I was thinking of how efficient this would be...I smoke a gram of kief a day. How much flower does that require? I would need to grow that much. I don't think it's feasible, I would need to harvest like a quarter ounce a day from a 2x4 tent. I could probably grow enough to make like 10% of my required kief. I'm going to try gardening when if I get that new light from Amazon. Right now I'm paying for someone to grow good beans and grow the plants and keep them healthy somewhere other than my place and they flower them and chop and dry them before making kief. Maybe it should be half the price, $9 USD a gram. I'm looking forward to growing out some nice Northern Lights strains for personal purposes...I enjoy growing and then having good flower and smoking for free.
"Good morning Bud Fox, I'm gonna make you rich"

I am sure that on your walks you pass my a half dozen dealers on the street. Just ask them. Probably better and cheaper than dispensary.

 

[Putembk]

under promise
over deliver

great strategy

yup

 

[jokerman]

Nowadays I give the customer a materials list for the job with my suppliers discount and let them deal with buying and transporting the materials.

My estimate only includes the labor for the total number of days the job will take. If it's a big job I get paid after every 5 days unless it's a repeat steady customer.

I always estimate a day or more than I know it will take. Customers love it when you tell them 10 days @ $350 a day and then finish the job in 8 days. Instead of the $3500 they budgeted for labor they only end up paying $2800.

It depends on what you do , hard to give someone a list of material thats big and rely on them getting the right stuff or not enough,or timing is off.
If i did a service and not have one right part,that could stop a job,
I also dont want to spend hours on a list back and forth to save people money .FUK that, the same people who nickel and dime you,go on trips.go out to eat ,spend $ on stupid shit and then get conservative with you.
I was fair and very very good to folks who dont have much.
Folks who needed something important for the house is one thing ,some just want fancy ,frivilious stuff ,no problem and Im happy to do , It will cost you ,fair price.

 

[Travis Kelcee]

Thanks Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln imposes first federal income tax | August 5, 1861 | HISTORY

On August 5, 1861, President Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act. Strapped for cash with which to pursue the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress agreed to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800. As early as March 1861, Lincoln had begun to take stock...

www.history.com

In 1861 a carpenter working 60 hrs a a week earned about $568 annually

$490 annually for a machinist 60 hrs a week

$305 annually for laborer 60 hrs a week

 

[Gray Wolf]

Less easy for me. I did a lot of free electrical and plumbing in retirement for friends, but had a return industrial customers eleven years after I retired and closed Innovative Project Management, Inc, and had to found Graywolf Consulting, LLC and buy liability insurance before I could do the project for them, due to their aerospace and defense contracts.

I did the one job and closed the business.

 

[jokerman]

Good morning folks
Yesterday I saw my ex mil ( we weren't married ) at the ending of her life 91.
Still sharp as a tack ,read 2 books a month, member of a book club for 40 years.
Her stomach all swollen up with cancer.
Being taken extraordinary care by her daughter ( my ex) a NP surrounded by grand children and great grandchildren. Now just son and daughters because she doesn't want the great children to see.
In a hospital bed ,looking over Flax pond, in a little community in the town of Oldfield. with spectacular views.
Toward around 4 an 8 point buck sauntered in the back yard,and laid his ass down for 45 minutes as if to stand guard. I told her She was the best Ex mother -in -law I ever had.
She laughed , I feel for my ex,a great woman who spent the last 4 months living with her Mom.
She has two girls who had triplets ( in fifth grd now ) and two with the other.
The triplets are a pisser , a active force!

 

[Boo]

today I'm gonna clay bar the buick...the paint looks great for factory paint (28 years old) but it's rough and pulls on the fingers when touched...clay pulls all crap off the paint and leaves it glassy...another nice day to eat shrooms gifted by one of the "gang" here...I enjoyed my buzz yesterday and hope to do a repeat...

 

[jokerman]

Less easy for me. I did a lot of free electrical and plumbing in retirement for friends, but had a return industrial customers eleven years after I retired and closed Innovative Project Management, Inc, and had to found Graywolf Consulting, LLC and buy liability insurance before I could do the project for them, due to their aerospace and defense contracts.

I did the one job and closed the business.

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Oh Momma.
I would be proud to wire that
I wired printing machines for wall paper some times 80 feet long for 2-3 months a machine.
I loved machine wiring

 

[jokerman]

Good morning folks
Yesterday I saw my ex mil ( we weren't married ) at the ending of her life 91.
Still sharp as a tack ,read 2 books a month, member of a book club for 40 years.
Her stomach all swollen up with cancer.
Being taken extraordinary care by her daughter ( my ex) a NP surrounded by grand children and great grandchildren. Now just son and daughters because she doesn't want the great children to see.
In a hospital bed ,looking over Flax pond, in a little community in the town of Oldfield. with spectacular views.
Toward around 4 an 8 point buck sauntered in the back yard,and laid his ass down for 45 minutes as if to stand guard. I told her She was the best Ex mother -in -law I ever had.
She laughed , I feel for my ex,a great woman who spent the last 4 months living with her Mom.
She has two girls who had triplets ( in fifth grd now ) and two with the other.
The triplets are a pisser , a active force!