pre-collapse business

PRE-COLLAPSE BUSINESS
Yesterday's lack of enthusiasm was a bit of a disappointment. Instead of, WOW, you tripled your insulating efficiency and retained your mobility for only $400 I get admonished for failing to spend fifty percent more. Dammit people, stop eating your Ho Ho's while watching American Idol and love me. Do you hear that, trolls? My loyal minions are not genuflecting before my every idea. And, speaking of trolls, where's my damn twenty dollars? You promised compensation for the African trailer lot pictures and none was forthcoming. Curse you all- a pox on your hide!
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It's not enough that I guide you through frugal preparations. Nor that I present wonderful ideas for post-Apocalypse business' or trades. Now, out of the goodness of my heart and the fact that this is what gelled into an idea today, I offer for your amazement and titillation a business that you can enter now with almost no investment and fringe benefits such as tax write offs and subsidized personal consumption. Can I get an Amen, Brother? Of course, there is a down side. Isn't there always? Dammit, why can't there be a free lunch? Well, living in your parents basement eating Ho Ho's and cheese doodles and not working when you are thirty five is kind of a free lunch, but the rest of us have no such luck. The down side is this is really nothing more than a micro-business where the profits are equally small. But at least this is a projected growth business.
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Start a storage food business. Not the canned, freeze dried foods. Dry bulk in Mylar bags and plastic buckets. You can buy at Wal-Mart, Costco or the feed store. And you don't need a huge investment. You can buy everything one at a time if need be ( to get a starting inventory ). Get the Mylar bags online and the buckets and food locally. And you don't even need an expensive sealing unit for the bags, a clothes iron works just as good. Use that to start and if business really picks up you can invest the couple hundred needed for the sealer. Now, you might think that this is a retarded business plan since very few people want to buy buckets of food. And normally you would be correct. Except that you are already storing your own food. Which can be a business expense. You count it as inventory and equipment cost. Anything you sell, the profit you make, has that tax write off. Unless you really start doing well, which makes paying the taxes less painful. Don't get me wrong, I can't guarantee you what the IRS is going to do. This is not accounting advice. Just speaking in generalities here. Lawyer weasel words, bah, blah.
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Security is going to be your main concern. I can already hear your brain churning. Why make a ten dollar profit and compromise my security by letting everyone know where I live and store my food? Which is what the Internet is for. You don't even need to list a phone number, let alone an address. Just give a web site or an e-mail address. Don't call back on your home phone if you are really paranoid. Let all the transactions take place online. Which also makes advertising easy. You bypass the traditional costs of doing business. It is all profit with almost no investment and any inventory can be used by you in an emergency which was tax deductible. You need to deliver, but you already have a car which can now be partially used as a business expense.
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You could also try selling on commission. One potential retail location is a gun store. Crazy gun owners can also be crazy survivalists squirrelling away for Armageddon. You would have to cut them in on the profits, plus they wouldn't stock a lot of your product ( just enough for an advertising display ). But as long as you can sell to people locally cheaper than they can buy online you should have a profitable little niche business. Which, as I said, is sure to continue growing. And imagine the huge profits when famine hits! Also, more lawyer weasel words, keep all the problems in mind like a health inspection, needed licences, inventory taxes and all the rest. I would try to fly under the radar or the local tax authorities will nickel and dime you to death. But that is your call.
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Just something to think about. It might actually pay you to increase your food storage.
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