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Participant[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]I have 4 cats, each eats at least a gopher a day, maybe 2. Still too many gophers. Will think on it. Could be reason to live, in retirement ,battling gophers. Caddyshack.[/quote]
You could keep the cacti in plastic pots, like nurseries do with their plants. Bigger up front costs but makes transportation easier and less risky to the plant at time of sale, and pretty much eliminates the gopher issue.[/quote]
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ParticipantI have 4 cats, each eats at least a gopher a day, maybe 2. Still too many gophers. Will think on it. Could be reason to live, in retirement ,battling gophers. Caddyshack.
Participant[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]
It was 100 % clear to me at age 13, after attending early conventions, that a substantial investment in comics would be profitable. Just look at the numbers, the growth, the market excitement!
[/quote]Totally agree and that’s why I’m not so sold on the real value of a stock being its expected return over decades. It is hard enough for companies to make 5 year plans.
Anybody who tries to understand what a company’s returns will be decades down the road is probably going to be incorrect.[/quote]comics bought at the conventions i went to in the mid 70s, damn, we couldve done well…shouldnt have spent that bar mitzvah money on weed
Participanti will be germinating approximately 1000 cactus seeds over the next month. I anticipate start up costs of $250.00. Assuming a 50% survival rate, I should have 500 plants worth 200$ each, or $100,000 in inventory within 5 years. 500X the initial investment. But that’s just the next months worth of germination. We will be ramping up production. Over the course of the next 3 years, I see a meteoric rise as I take clippings, perfect germination rates and start planting in larger pots. There could easily be 5 million in cacti by fiscal year 2025. We go public in 2026, and are bought out in 2027 by cacti, international.
And if it doesnt work out, well, at least I have a lot of drought tolerant landscaping.
ALSO, WE HAD NOPALES FOR DINNER LAST NIGHT. GRILLED WITH PESTO SAUCE, LIKE A LITTLE CUTLET.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320293
could just eat cacti and mustard greens.
Participant[quote=sdrealtor][quote=scaredyclassic]The prices of columnar cacti at nurseries i visit are so high. I saw a 5 footer for 200$ imagine having a 1000 of them![/quote]
Imagine trying to sell a 1000 of them[/quote]
they sell as they grow, very slowly.Participant[quote=sdrealtor][quote=svelte][quote=sdrealtor]Anyone selling broad based predictions in RE is throwing lots of sh@t at the wall hoping somehting sticks. RE is about making good decisions and beating the market. [/quote]
Doesn’t the first sentence make the second sentence a crap shoot?[/quote]
Life can be a crap shoot but ignoring the pundits and focusing on the details and data one can make better decisions[/quote]
Life can be so distracting and confusing though. The fog of war, the fog of life.
It was 100 % clear to me at age 13, after attending early conventions, that a substantial investment in comics would be profitable. Just look at tge numbers, the growth, the market excitement! I couldnt persuade my folks. Then, my testosterone kicked in and i lost interest too.
Life pulls in so many directions.
We should forgive ourselves therefore our dumb mistakes
ParticipantThe prices of columnar cacti at nurseries i visit are so high. I saw a 5 footer for 200$ imagine having a 1000 of them!
ParticipantNot sure.
But how to balance a portfolio today?
bonds seem like a sucker bet.
Could gold replace the bond or cash portion of a portfolio.
I have more faith in gold than bonds or cash i think.
Still, somewhat volatile. But maybe more stable than bonds or us dollar in future?
Lets say 8 to 12 perc?
ParticipantThanks
Will check out.
With time, growing from seed, this seems like it cant help but be profitable.
I enjoy my cacti.
I already cultivated on entire hillside, about 5000plus sq ft, all cacti and native plants over about 7 years. Now weed free there.I think i would enjoy this anyway, and the plants would have some value
Participant[quote=Coronita]Do you guys stockpile the ETF representing gold are raw bullion?[/quote]
CEF
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]IMO Gold has just about 0 in real value, it’s value is just whatever number people want to put on it.
So it goes up and down for whatever reason people want to use.
OK maybe there is some value for jewelry, rings etc…[/quote]
i think the value of everything is whatever number people want to put on it.
except for a 9.8 copy of amazing fantasy 15. that has value independently of anything going on in human affairs, or even if human society continues to exist.
Participant[quote=outtamojo][quote=svelte][quote=outtamojo][quote=svelte][quote=outtamojo]Turns out the shake shack incident was really, really embellished.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-16/cops-fast-food-conspiracy-theories-police-persecution-complex%5B/quote%5DAs was the NASCAR noose incident. People are on edge.
I haven’t seen on-edge race car drivers kneeling on people’s necks and killing them.or trigger happy and lying about what happens next.
[/quote]Sigh. I’m getting tired of explaining things to you.
Even the articles you quote say that the SS drink machine had been cleaned and therefore may have contained some cleaning agents, pointing to the officers making an honest mistake because – tada – they are on edge. NASCAR thought a simple door pull was a noose, when it was actually just a door pull, is because – tada – they are on edge.
Why the h*ll you’d insert kneeling into that conversation I have no idea. Except it allows you to point out that incident once again.[/quote]
Ok mr I’ve got cop friends so they must be great guys. Being on edge is no excuse to embellish a story. If cops cant be honest and not embellish and lie about stuff they shouldn’t be cops- these types are just not qualified for the job and should not be allowed to live out their fantasy. Your arrogance (svelte splaining) knows no bounds.[/quote]
https://www.theonion.com/officials-warn-defunding-police-could-lead-to-spike-in-1844149047
the onion weighs in
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=harvey][quote=outtamojo]Fine lines sometimes separate being hypocritical and changing one’s mind […][/quote]
He didn’t change his mind at all. He still believes Obama, Hillary, Democrats and anyone that doesn’t fall in line are his “enemies”; that they are wrong/evil/incompetent and everything he has done or will do is success.
He has no real positions on foreign policy, especially mideast policy. It’s simply tough rhetoric that is consistently inconsistent in meaning. Non-intervention, nuke the middle east, America first, secret plan to destroy ISIS – it’s all self-contradicting nonsense. There’s no mind to change.
In the world of Trump, it’s not about ideas or policies or action, or even reality. It’s about people and perception. It’s all about him.
That has not changed.[/quote]
Of course, as you so well said, there is no broader policy with Trump. He’s just reactionary.
White House struggles to show how airstrike in Syria fits broader policy
Continued bombing by Assad shows limits of single U.S. attack
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/continued-bombing-by-assad-shows-limits-of-single-us-attack/2017/04/08/1c70cb1a-1c83-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html%5B/quote%5DSee the movie For sama
ParticipantDont worry.
Absolutely nothing will change in america.
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