No mortgage, but no job?

bo_drinker

If neither of you are going to have a regular "proper job" you need something in the background bringing in a bread and butter income, someone has mentioned the web, don't know what on the web?? Ebay maybe??

dopester

bo_drinker wrote: »

If neither of you are going to have a regular "proper job" you need something in the background bringing in a bread and butter income, someone has mentioned the web, don't know what on the web?? Ebay maybe??

I hope you all know what you're doing going, if actually buying in remote rural areas. I don't expect every such areas will be a priority for road-maintenance or repair, including pretty small bridges - with public funds under so much strain. Not when to spend so much, isn't bringing back much economic revenue in return.

Already we've got hints of what is to come.... for you deep rural potential ebayers.

'Too steep' hill sees Royal Mail end deliveries to remote hamlet

The Guardian, Saturday 2 August 2008

The hamlet of Booze has suffered many indignities, but the latest has united the 11 remote households in wrath.

After more than three centuries of delivering letters to the lonely outpost, the Royal Mail is withdrawing the service on health and safety grounds because it involves an "excessively steep" access track.

The final delivery to the former mining community in Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire, was a batch of letters announcing the service would be suspended the following day.

The residents of Booze, described by the Victorian writer Harry Speight as "clinging to its hill like a tipsy man to a lamp-post", were advised to collect their post from Richmond sorting office, a 45-minute drive away, until a collection box on the valley's main road by the river Arkle could be arranged.

.. full article continues

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Get yourself a basic website (if you can't be 4rsed to do more), with all your stuff on it.. photos, downloadable order form if you're not ready for ecommerce yet, full contact details .... and religiously stick a small sticker onto every pot you sell that has your website address on. People will wander past, buy from you, get home, then want more, or their neighbour/friend might want to know who they got stuff from ... also, get a little card people can fill in with their email address and opt in permission so you can email them price lists/newsletters. The money's in the list.

Get a nice logo too (one colour so it's cheap to print.... I temped for a company about 25 years ago that had a glorious multi-coloured logo and their printing costs were astronomical).

We have all the gear for printing plastic labels which never rot or fade; in fact I had a guy 'phone me today, having pulled one out of his garden. Clearly, it lasted longer than the plant!:rotfl:

Years ago, when we began, we used to use an old dot matrix, oblivious to the fact that labels self-destructed after 3 months. :mad:

A postal business is OK if you can find a decent courier service, and some people do it, especially from remote areas. However, there's nothing to beat meeting Mr & Mrs Public face to face, especially if the odd one you encounter turns out to be scouting for talent: i.e. they are running a similar event and invite you to come along. Some of the best events, where you can sell £500+ worth of stuff in a few hours, are oversubscribed.

The main downside is that the profitable part of the season is short. Distant, larger, 3 day events are out, as you have to get home, water and re-stock in between, unless you have staff & can live in a lorry.

Personally, I still think it's cool, swinging the 3.5 tonne van out on to the misty open road at 6 a.m.and heading towards some stately pile with a load of desirable plants, all grown personally from virtually nothing. Mind you, it's not so cool when one is standing in a field full of cow turds in the pouring rain trying to erect a stall in a force eight gale.

skcollobcat10

Mozette wrote: »

Wow! Which public sector does he work for?

I could only think that this maybe in Scotland? Please tell me if that is correct.

PasturesNew

bo_drinker wrote: »

If neither of you are going to have a regular "proper job" you need something in the background bringing in a bread and butter income, someone has mentioned the web, don't know what on the web?? Ebay maybe??

There are 1000 things one can do on the web ... I should know, I spend hours looking into them. That's what/all I do really: look at hundreds of ways to earn cash on the web. And it's how I make my munniez.

fc123

GracieP wrote: »

Yeah, I've been thinking of starting a religion, look how great that worked out for L. Ron. Hubbard.:D And I could write a few crap SF novels which my husband could make movies of, so he wouldn't have to quit film entirely.

If OH makes films, couldn't that develop into something?

A bit eeeugh, but professional wedding films for example........you could undercut the competition (as you live mortage free) and a pro film of the big day could still be in the budget as they may cut back on the dress or other things.

We know someone doing well making 'mood' type films (he'd be upset if he heard me call them that) that clubs/bars etc buy and show on large flat screens as a moving wallpaper. Well paid too.

Otherwise I am with PN on establishing the business/trade then moving it with you.

Can you make things? www.etsy.com ..many doing a roaring trade on it from all over the world.

This is something in my wannabe, reason to get up in the morning lifeplan (no 67 subsection (ii)) .
Was swooning over this today http://details.vebra.com/property/8654/18324542
maybe in a decades time?

bo_drinker

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are 1000 things one can do on the web ... I should know, I spend hours looking into them. That's what/all I do really: look at hundreds of ways to earn cash on the web. And it's how I make my munniez.

Like what?? can you make a real living.

Mozette

skcollobcat10 wrote: »

I could only think that this maybe in Scotland? Please tell me if that is correct.

I don't know - I'm sure the public sector pay rates are the same in Scotland as England. Certainly at £50,000 it's a different public sector to the one I work for - depends on your definition of 'middle management' maybe!

PasturesNew

bo_drinker wrote: »

Like what?? can you make a real living.

I've not touched a penny of my house fund ... yet I sit on the sofa all day, eating wine gums and chatting here .... as I've not yet worked out how to print £20 notes on my cheapo printer ... yes, I do.

And I don't even "do it properly". I have no slick systems. I am not focussed or anything.... I just dabble a lot and read/surf a lot and blog stuff and update stuff... and spend WAY too many hours faffing about looking for free themes.

But yes. If I actually applied myself and picked just ONE thing to go at then I could actually make an even bigger income than I already do ... I can never decide what I want to do.... I keep having hundreds of ideas and following up dozens of things... and never actually choose/stick to one really.

What I do, anybody can do. But there's a catch, of sorts. You do actually have to do something... and keep doing it. Just like a proper job... you don't go there for 1 day and stop going... same online.

I've not actually done a thing though on any of it for a month. The money still rolls in... and rolls in. 24/7, seven days a week ... drip, drip, drip. It's just there, coming in. Small pennies, larger chunks, monthly regular amounts. All sorts....

Davesnave

dopester wrote: »

I hope you all know what you're doing going, if actually buying in remote rural areas. I don't expect every such areas will be a priority for road-maintenance or repair, including pretty small bridges - with public funds under so much strain. Not when to spend so much, isn't bringing back much economic revenue in return.

Yes, but there's rural, and there's totally-off-the-beaten-track-forty-miles-from-Sainsbury's rural.

Where I'm going, there may be no street lights, but there's a Chinese about a mile away as the crow flies, and a bus still passes. People's kids need to get to school.

But I agree that life in the country isn't the idyll it's made out to be for those, especially the young, who want the amusements only found in towns. If they aren't already hurting, petrol and diesel prices are going to creep upwards, while growing a few vegetables seems unlikely to offset the extra cost of oil or LPG for central heating.