The recession, benefits, the safety net, and the learning curve

Max_Headroom_3

fc123 wrote: »

Just noticed no new post today.
Is Maxy OK?

I have an OCD thingy going on and want to find out about BMW job.

Tis up now.

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

We have a stoneware hot-water bottle. I first read about them on HPC. ......

Oooh, whata super idea....I want one! I do use hot water bottles -forgot about them, but they don't stay warm long, but I'll use them through the day too ifI'm sitting about a bit and the cats get a pig lamp (low running cost) if its really cold (but not during our sedentry/sleeping times....heat sharing is key;)). Dog dog has clothing for when its cold: she doesn't have much hair. In winter I iron a lot too: its very warming, and rather pleasurable if you approach it the right way.

Re the duvet coated tables (we're simply too animally for that to work easily: I think of the cleaning!) but one of the few wedding presents we got (we eloped and forfeited gifts )was a beautiful blanket to snuggle under. we tend to keep a stack of eiderdowns/blankets etc on the sofa and snuggle together to keep warm. Makes for a good marriage too.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Mmmm... maybe we need to get you and Sue sitting down in a room together, could be the start of something interesting.

Hehe bit out of touch at the moment but on top of any VAT and duty (if applicable), there is also customs clearance charges, freight charges, any devanning charges, shipping line charges (didn't exist when I started out but came in to during my time, like an admin charge) plus any transport needed to also take into the equation.

Regulations re having a van just pick things up I am a little eek about, I know we used to have fun with personal effects and people not understanding the ins and outs but it has been years since I have dealt with anything resembling part loads/personal effects/devans etc, my last 5 years in the trade was spent on whole containers only with the occasional double or triple drop of goods of that one box whilst transporting in this country.

fc123

Max_Headroom wrote: »

Tis up now.

I understand why yesterdays instalment was a bit late.:happylove:love::happylove

You are forgiven.;)

PasturesNew

LOL/blog.

I like children's food.... all those posh things that they do to food just because you're an adult, I just don't like.

I love toad in the hole ... with beans is good

StevieJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Hehe bit out of touch at the moment but on top of any VAT and duty (if applicable), there is also customs clearance charges, freight charges, any devanning charges, shipping line charges (didn't exist when I started out but came in to during my time, like an admin charge) plus any transport needed to also take into the equation.

Regulations re having a van just pick things up I am a little eek about, I know we used to have fun with personal effects and people not understanding the ins and outs but it has been years since I have dealt with anything resembling part loads/personal effects/devans etc, my last 5 years in the trade was spent on whole containers only with the occasional double or triple drop of goods of that one box whilst transporting in this country.

Not to mention demurrage

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

Speaking of sustainability, I saw this book at the library yesterday, it really made me think of you dopester...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Eat-Dog-Sustainable-Living/dp/0500287902/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249202549&sr=8-1

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: .
Now when I see the old stone hottie at my dads (he still uses one) I will also think of Dopestar.
In fact Dopestars entrepreneurial sideline could be 'The Extra, Extreme Thrifty ways for Modern Days' Blog..bending ML's book title a bit.;)

I did an extravagant thing tonight and put out the chicken bones for Mr Badger..who comes snuffling underneath the kitchen window most nights. He also likes stale croissants.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I looked into a great idea I had a few years ago, it involved importing things from India... but it was almost impossible to work out how import etc worked - and it seemed that I'd have to import a container load at a t ime, have dock-side storage/a van waiting to take a whole container of stuff away, import duties, warehousing to store these things ... and all I wanted to do was import a few dozen at a time.

Trying to work out import duties and regulations in itself rocket science.

It's quite straightforward really.
We import basic black fabric from Turkey. I e-mail the fabric man and order, say, 2000m. He knits and dyes it to order then bales it up in huge parcels. I send ££££. His part of the deal is to pop it onto a lorry and book boat. It takes a week to reach a port.

Sometimes the lorry breaks down and it misses it's boat.

Another company collect it from dock and I pay them the VAT. They then put it onto rolls somewhere then put into another lorry and it goes to factory in Leicester.

When we used to export to Japan, we organised all the export this end with a freight company for the customer. Just a 'phone call, a bit of paperwork for customs and done......and packing it for transport.

Most exporters will sort it out for you their end.

mr.broderick

fc123 wrote: »

It's quite straightforward really.
We import basic black fabric from Turkey. I e-mail the fabric man and order, say, 2000m. He knits and dyes it to order then bales it up in huge parcels. I send ££££. His part of the deal is to pop it onto a lorry and book boat. It takes a week to reach a port.

Sometimes the lorry breaks down and it misses it's boat.

Another company collect it from dock and I pay them the VAT. They then put it onto rolls somewhere then put into another lorry and it goes to factory in Leicester.

When we used to export to Japan, we organised all the export this end with a freight company for the customer. Just a 'phone call, a bit of paperwork for customs and done......and packing it for transport.

Most exporters will sort it out for you their end.

Wouldn't it be easier to buy it off ebay ?:p

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

It's quite straightforward really.
We import basic black fabric from Turkey. I e-mail the fabric man and order, say, 2000m. He knits and dyes it to order then bales it up in huge parcels. I send ££££. His part of the deal is to pop it onto a lorry and book boat. It takes a week to reach a port.

Sometimes the lorry breaks down and it misses it's boat.

Another company collect it from dock and I pay them the VAT. They then put it onto rolls somewhere then put into another lorry and it goes to factory in Leicester.

When we used to export to Japan, we organised all the export this end with a freight company for the customer. Just a 'phone call, a bit of paperwork for customs and done......and packing it for transport.

Most exporters will sort it out for you their end.

The problem I was having was trying to even find out which import classification it came into in order to find out how much import duty would be payable. They don't make it easy to go through those lists and decide.

I can't say what it was here, or things will take an odd irrelevant tangent, but it involved electrical goods and stones.

I was looking at having to do everything myself, order it, I hadn't even thought about how it'd get onto the boat, then all the paperwork and money etc and getting it off a boat here and warehousing it ... too much for a whim of an idea.

I don't think they were exporters, they were suppliers. They had this stuff for sale and a website, I'd have had to sort out everything, with no knowledge of anything - and virtually nil budget.

I didn't want to order a whole container either