Why are the Halloween displays up in July? 

 

Why am I seeing Christmas displays when it's not even Thanksgiving yet?

 

It is perfectly all right to be confused or annoyed at this. But I have a friend from the Ron Paul presidential campaign days who takes full advantage of it. 

 

As soon as these things go on display at the dollar store she fills her cart with them and then resells them online on various platforms. She resells them for considerably more than what she pays for them at the dollar store. It works very well.

 

She is helping people, because instead of driving around potentially fruitlessly from one store to another with hit-or-miss results, they get exactly what they like with the click of a mouse.

 

What I personally don't like about this model is that it involves keeping an inventory in my garage (although she assures me she sells out every holiday, so there's nothing left over), and I have no desire to pack things up and ship them. I like having zero merchandise for resale in my garage.

 

This is yet another of the many merits of print on demand, the system that Tom Woods Show listener (and guest) Adam Schneider used in order to go from an ex-policeman to the CEO of a print-on-demand fulfillment company. 

 

You don't have to hold any inventory.

 

Adam's company ships out whatever people buy from you at the moment they buy it. You never have to touch a thing. So no inventory and no shipping. Just receiving checks with your name on them. 

 

A few more days and then I have to take his presentation down, but you really should watch how he does this.

 

You would have to be jaded in the extreme not to be impressed by this. Because we're surrounded by technological miracles we no longer appreciate them. What Adam does and what you can do is an absolute miracle. 

 

In a way it's like capitalism itself. It creates extraordinary things and yet we're so used to being spoiled by it that we don't stop to appreciate it.

 

People complain a lot, sometimes with good reason, about conditions in 2024, but if you're alert and not just a complainer, 2024 is in many ways better than times we are told were the prosperous ones.

 

You just have to be willing to try something new -- and that gives you a massive advantage, because you know as well as I do that almost nobody else is going to bother.

 

That, sadly, is human nature. 

 

But you, a Woods subscriber, are better than that.

 

The link to the replay: 

 

 

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