Nobody works anymore. Atlas shrugged and is off to the black market. It is Sunday, a day for side hustles for cash, and keeping the paperwork up to date for your monthly parasite money. Becoming a Lamprey-Canadian was my best financial move to date! I enjoy my Victory Coffee. I also need a project to work on today.
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Again at the end of the month, the shortage of quality housing has struck and someone is caught out of the musical chairs which is the Canadian housing market. A free table here, another media centre there... asking $50 obo. Sometimes they're listed as "wood" sometimes as "wooden". I'm amazed at how little the common Canadian knows of what is wood, and what is wooden. I only buy teak and I know and love teak, I don't deal with oak or other garbage like maple as I know nothing of it except I'd buy at $40 and sell at $80.
I send an offer on the teak, it's grudgingly accepted by the near homeless union worker who offers opinions on how to repair the world, I keep my MAGA opinions to myself. I disassemble the table, looking for a marque stamped under, or a "made in Denmark" sticker as I hoist it into the back of my convertible. My daughters have matching Tacomas, I refer to these as "Slowcomas" while I think of the $60k I've saved on my purchase of a $5500 car. The season for pickups with convertibles is rapidly closing, maybe a couple of weeks left until spring thaw.
The table doesn't have stickers or stamps of origin, but one can tell and in a few days this will look terrific again (never, never sand teak furniture!!) Friday by 4pm this will be on the kijiji and the asking will be $940. 90% of my sales are Saturday am and if I'm still looking at it Monday I'll reduce the price by 10% and sell by next Sat. am. I haven't done any plumbing or gas fitting since Edmonton July of 2022. Sometimes I doubt I'll remember the tricks of the trade if I have to return to legit taxed work. I suppose working at a tax-me job and selling tax free teak would be kinda posh for a blue collar like me, I could get used to doing both at the same time. No doubt I'll be doing this after I "retire". My ex said I should get gov't pension, continue working a taxed job, and sell untaxed furniture and overlooked thrift store buys. That's a lot to juggle, I'm not used to having cash come at me from 3 directions. It'd be 4x if I add unvaxed semen at $3800/load.
If you can source good teak, we might be able to do business. I propose to set up a chain of pop-up boutiques just before Hallowe'en, to catch the holiday trade. It would sell Hallowe'en ornaments made exclusively of teak. I'd call it "Boo! Teak".
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