Subject: [Homestead] Ponchos, 38 cents a pound cheese
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:18:41 -0700
I've mentioned this a long way back. Simple, no-labor niche imports can
make you a good living. I bought a number of beautiful ponchhos from
small home workshops in villages twenty or so miles south of Quito,
Equador. and 38 cents a pound Muenster cheese from the same
villages---no U.S. import duty on Muenster cheese.
You would have to re-establish the village contacts I have lost---would
help like crazy if you spoke Spanish or Quechua. I used to speak and
read Spanish fluently, and some Aymara, but never Quechua.
My more-lavish-than-usual woolen ponchos cost me $2.75 to $3.00 apiece.
leather ones would have been higher in cost---don't know how much. Not
sure what the leather was---in common use because of the heavy dew and
wet, low-hanging clouds at 12,000 to 14,000 feet in the Andes. I doubt
that it was cow-leather.
[Homestead] Ponchos, 38 cents a pound cheese,
Tvoivozhd, 10/05/2004