09:40 – Well, someone just did to me what I sometimes do to other people. I just tried to order, among other things, 300 5/10/15X folding pocket magnifiers from one of my regular vendors. As of a week ago they had 2,000 of them in stock, but as of this morning they’re back-ordered on them. Someone swooped in and ordered all 2,000 of them, and it’ll be a couple months before the vendor can get another batch from their factory in India. Fortunately, I have enough remaining in stock to hold me for a couple months, I hope. One of my other vendors also carries them, but at more than twice the price.
I’m still working on taxes. One bright spot is that North Carolina still has a huge small-business deduction in effect. It goes away starting this year, but for 2013 taxes small businesses can still deduct up to the first $50,000 in profits for an individual or $100,000 for a married couple. In other words, a married couple whose only income is from the business can earn up to $100,000 without having to pay any state income tax. That’s $100,000 net, not gross. I still can’t believe this deduction exists, but it does. Alas, it was too good to last. The legislature repealed the deduction for tax years 2014 and after.
Several people have asked if I planned to publish the contents of our vehicle emergency kits. I’m still working on the list, but if people who’re interested send me their email addresses I’ll send them a PDF of the list once I’ve finalized it. You can download the current version of the list here.
I hope adding my comment will give you my email address. I would like a pdf of the contents of your car emergency kit, please.
Done. If anyone wants to just download it, I just uploaded it to
http://www.ttgnet.com/emergency kit.pdf
I believe “Mortar, M224 w/ 20 HE rounds” are on sale at Wal-Mart now. Get them while supplies last. 🙂
Thanks for uploading the kit pdf.
I was going to make a Walmart run today, thanks @Chad for the heads up on the mortar sale 😉
Yeah, that sucks. I was planning to order the M224 and 20 HE rounds from Amazon Prime, but they don’t carry it.
Hmm. I can’t seem to find the M224 in stock anywhere. I may have to replace it with my favorite RoadRunner ACME product:
ACME
1 Doz. Grenades
(Not Recommended for Children)
Holy crap, it’s 56 here right now! Warmest it’s been since last year! And rain on the way, to swell the already overflowing streams and rivers and snow melt off the hills. Flood warnings imminent, no doubt.
I’ll have to check our Wall-Mutt Superstore for their ammo situation, at least; looked into another local shop recently and they seemed to have a decent selection and told me it was getting back to nommul.
And heading to a gun show points south on Sunday so I hope to have more intel then.
There are very,, very,, very few people that are going to survive when “Survival” really counts… If one is a “Survivor” and NOT a Dependent Democrat, one might have a chance… 90+% of Americans could not even kill their super…….