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Hello and welcome to another episode of the

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self-initiative project podcast i’m your host jim o’brien hello and welcome

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to podcast 43 where we’re going to be talking about safety consideration for

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vendors of all types but before we get into all of that good stuff i want to

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take a moment and just say thank you to our listeners.

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There’s a lot of choices out there for you guys to listen to.

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And somehow or another, you’ve made the decision to listen to us.

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And for that, I’m greatly appreciative.

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You know, we’ve been doing this now for a little over three and a half years

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where this is our 43, 43rd podcast that we have.

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And, you know, there’s 42 others on great subject matters, all in the personal

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safety, self-defense and preparedness space.

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And if you’re just tuning in, I’d encourage you to go back and listen to some

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of our other podcasts. I am more than certain that there are one or more topics

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in the mix that would be of interest to you in making yourself and your family more safe.

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And if you like what you hear and,

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you know, you’ve taken away a nugget of something that you’ve thought of,

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that made you think that you hadn’t maybe thought about before and you like

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what you’re hearing, we would love it if you would tell your friends and family

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about us. So thanks for listening.

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With that, I want to talk about safety consideration for vendors.

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And when I thought about this, I’m thinking about small vendors like you and me, right?

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The big guys, the retail chains and the chain restaurants, whatever.

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I’m more than certain, at least very hopeful that they have their own security

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considerations and safety precautions that they have in place.

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What I wanted to talk about today is safety for the little guys like you and

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me, you know, whether or not we’re having a garage sale or a yard sale,

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whether we’re selling antiques out of the barn at the local flea market,

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we’re selling our birdhouses or whatever at the local arts and crafts show.

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Or maybe we’re selling fruits and vegetables at the local farmer’s market or

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hot dogs or ice cream as a street vendor.

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You know, whatever it is, there’s a lot of examples of small vendors, right?

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Whatever it is, there’s just some safety things that we need to take into consideration

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and implement for ourselves to help keep us safe.

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And look, as I’ve said before, nothing’s 100%.

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If someone’s intent on doing harm or doing something bad or illegal and you’re

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involved, nothing’s going to stop them 100%.

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But that doesn’t mean it’s not our responsibility to make it harder for them

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to deter or dissuade, right? So that’s what we’re talking about.

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You know, while we’re not talking about the big guys necessarily,

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the one thing that being a vendor has in common across the board with every

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other vendor, regardless of size or type, is that we’re in the public space.

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And anytime we’re out in public, even if it means being in our front yard, right?

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Anytime we’re out in public or we’re dealing with the public,

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that means there’s the opportunity to meet and deal with strangers.

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Dare I say, most of what we’re going to be dealing with is strangers.

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And that’s why we need to be thinking about our personal safety.

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So when I think about, you know, the topics that I want to cover for us today.

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I think about three buckets or three umbrellas, whatever vision works for you.

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I think about keeping things locked down. I think about needing a heightened

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sense of situational awareness and paying attention to what’s going on around us.

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And then I want to talk about some ways to handle money because,

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you know, there’s going to be sums of cash passed between hands.

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And so those are the three areas I want to focus on for us today.

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You know, when it comes to keeping things locked down, it really depends on

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which context and where you are.

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But, you know, when I think of things, keeping things locked down, I think about my home.

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You know, if I had a garage sale or yard sale at my home, which I’ve done a

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couple of times over the years, I think about what can I do to make sure my

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home is locked down and secure while I’m working said yard sale, whatever.

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And the first place I go, which is the most obvious, is keep your doors locked.

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You know, the best policy that you can have for yourself and your family as

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far as safety is keeping perfectly good strangers out of your home.

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That’s first and foremost. So whether it’s the front door, the back door,

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or that door that runs between your garage or carport and the mudroom or the

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kitchen, keeping those locked at all times.

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Even if you leave the yard cell for a moment and go inside to go to the bathroom,

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lock that door behind you.

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You just don’t want strangers coming into your house.

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With that being said, there’s an important boundary, I think,

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and this is just a personal choice and hopefully you’ll consider it as important and do the same.

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My house doesn’t have a public restroom. Again, I don’t want perfectly good

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strangers coming into my house.

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If someone shows up with a small child and they’re like, can we go to the bathroom?

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It’s okay to say no. It’s your home. You can do with it what you may.

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Now, if you are overwhelmed by guilt and it is a small child involved or whatever, you know,

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tugs at your heartstrings to make you forget your boundaries for a moment,

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then I would certainly recommend accompanying them into the house,

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waiting on them, and then escorting them back out.

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That way, there’s minimal time for them to case the house, you know,

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look over things, quote unquote, get lost, whatever.

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But if you want to avoid all of that, simply establishing the boundary ahead

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of time that, look, guys, we’re not going to let strangers into our house.

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It’s okay to say no. So no public restrooms.

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Talking about garages, I just assume keep my door down.

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As a tip, which isn’t really safety related, but it is because again,

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it keeps strangers out of your house, is run a utility cord,

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a power cord out from underneath the garage door into the driveway,

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into the front yard, whatever it is.

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That way you can power any electrical equipment that you have for sale and demo

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it in the front yard again without allowing anyone into the house.

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Now, look, I know garage sale means just that maybe there’s a rainstorm anticipated.

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And so you want to set up your sales items in your garage. Okay.

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Well, that still means a couple of things.

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One is you still want to keep that door between the garage and inside of your

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house locked at all times.

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And again, even if you go inside for a moment, lock it behind you so no one

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can accidentally stumble in and find their way into your house.

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So keep your door locked. And then there needs to be somebody on duty in your garage at all times.

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Because even if you’re selling things in your garage, I’m sure not unless you

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have a perfectly spotless garage.

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I’m sure other things, not everything in your garage is for sale.

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So you don’t want those strangers, you know, rummaging through your tool chest

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if tools in your tool chest aren’t for sale.

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So be sure to do a good job of separating what is for sale and what isn’t if

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you’re going to open up that garage and actually have an in-the-garage garage sale.

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With that being said, in light of this pandemic that we’re in the midst of right

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now, and if you’re concerned about social distancing,

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which, like myself, I like to keep distance between me and others at all times

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anyway, I might recommend waiting to a better day to do it, sunny day,

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and just doing it out in the yard and having more of a yard sale.

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This allows everyone to get more fresh air.

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It might allow for better social distancing. And most importantly,

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it’s going to allow you to keep your house more fully locked down.

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When I think about locking down, I also think about cars, vehicles,

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trucks, whatever you’ve got, you need to keep those doors locked and you need

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to keep things out of plain sight.

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Look, you got a bunch of perfectly good strangers around.

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Nothing says they’re not scoping out things to find weak points,

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right? That they can take advantage of later. So.

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This notion of keeping things locked down, it goes beyond your booth.

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It goes beyond your home.

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Lock those car doors and keep things out of plain sight.

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Shove them in the glove compartment box. Shove them underneath the front seat.

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Put them in the trunk would probably be the best place. In my opinion,

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it is the best place if you’ve got to keep it in the car. Put it in the trunk. Lock it away.

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When I think about keeping things locked down, if I’m a jewelry vendor or something like that,

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or I have small expensive items or more expensive items, it’s probably a good

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idea that I look to invest into some lockable glass or plexiglass casing.

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Of course, I’m gonna wanna stay near those more expensive items at all times

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just to keep an extra eye out, but investing in some sort of locking mechanism

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display, lockable display mechanism is probably gonna be best there too.

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Additionally, when I think about keeping things locked down,

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I think about placement of items.

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If I’m having a cell, and of course, you know, a yard sale is different than

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if you’re out of working a booth at an arts and craft where you’re selling maybe

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some higher end jewelry, for example.

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You know, in those cases, I’m probably sitting right there. So that’s in a way

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keeping things locked down.

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And of course, we just talked about maybe considering lockable cases for those sorts of items too.

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But when I think of keeping things locked down, I think,

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okay, well, if I’ve got a yard sale, I don’t want to put my most expensive items

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down along the street side, right along the curb, because that potentially makes

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it easier for someone to come along and swipe them and run off.

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I want to keep expensive items further away from the street and closer to me

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and where I’m hanging out most of the time.

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And I’ll say part of that too is, you know, you don’t want to go it alone.

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If you can avoid it, you want to have help when you’re doing a yard sale or

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when you’re working a booth, because that gets an extra set of eyes that allows

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you to more easily take breaks while still keeping an eye on everything and keeping it, you know,

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keeping things under control and paying attention, you know,

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that situational awareness that we talked about.

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But keeping your expensive items away from the open public area and closer where

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you can keep a better eye on it is important.

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And last, I want to mention that in the context of keeping things locked down.

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Especially when you’re home, you know, there’s the interview.

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And what I’m talking about specifically with the interview,

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my air quotes, is when you’ve got a perfectly good stranger,

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and this will happen with contractors sometimes when And you get those shady

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folks that your spidey senses are going off about or your intuition’s telling

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you something’s off. And.

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Feel like something’s really off because they start asking you seemingly intrusive

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or personal questions like, you know, Hey, does your security cameras work?

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Hey, are those lights on the back of the house? Do they actually come on or

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are they triggered by motion?

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You know, just, and they may not be that obvious, but when they start asking

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you questions around yourself or your family or your house and the way things are set up,

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those are red flags and you don’t have to answer those questions and you don’t

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necessarily have to be rude about your response, but you can also lie as well.

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This again is perfectly good stranger. There’s no reason for them to be asking

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those sorts of questions.

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So kind of on that notion of keeping things locked down, pay attention when

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someone’s getting a little too buddy buddy and asking too many questions and

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don’t feel obligated to give them a truthful answer.

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And in fact, shut that interview down if you can.

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Next, I want to talk about situational awareness. And look, in the personal

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safety space, situational awareness is something that’s talked about all the time.

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And rightfully so, because if you practice good situational awareness.

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You’re more than likely going to be able to avoid 90 plus percent of anything

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that could happen to you.

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Now, that’s not to say that you’re going to avoid every ambush and things like that.

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But when it comes to being a small vendor, having good situational awareness is key.

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And what we typically mean by situational awareness is having kind of an understanding

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of what’s normal, what a baseline is, and then paying attention when we see anomalies to that. So.

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Maybe I’m working a yard sale, or maybe I’m working the arts and crafts fair

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in the summer, and it’s 95 degrees out.

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And I’ve got a younger gentleman hanging in or around my booth that’s wearing

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blue jeans and an oversized button-up trench coat.

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Now, who’s to say what he’s doing there that way?

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Maybe he’s just really cold nature. But that is an example of an anomaly that

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you wouldn’t expect to see on a 95 plus degree degree day outside. Right.

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Maybe again, I’m at the yard cell and maybe I get a pack of teenagers,

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what appears to be teenagers again in this pandemic.

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Maybe they’ve all shown up with masks on and they’re the type of characters

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that have their pants down behind their knees. Right.

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That that type. And they’ve all got bandanas on their head. Now,

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again, we want to be cautious about profiling, but it’s okay to profile.

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And I’m just going to say that here, too. We all profile in our heads anyway.

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It’s not being about judgmental and just assuming the worst of people,

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but it is recognizing when things are out of the norm.

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No one else in the yard sale is dressed that way.

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And no one else outside that day is wearing a mask. Just for examples,

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I’m just giving a couple of examples.

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So really paying attention, figuring out what appears to be normal for what

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you’re doing and where you’re at at that time, and then seeing things that stand

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out to you, that’s where you want to focus your attention.

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So situational awareness plays a super important role in honestly knowing what’s

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going on around us, but in the context of personal safety.

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Helping us better do a better job and avoiding bad things potentially in the first place.

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So again, being out in the public, we really want to be on a heightened sense

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of alert and paying attention to what’s going on around us. And that includes

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if we have small kids, right?

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If we’ve got kids or pets with us, we need to be paying attention to them at all times.

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So it’s really not much different.

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The last thing that I want to talk about in our brief podcast today is handling of money.

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And look, there’s a lot of cash usually passed around at these places,

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at these venues, whether it’s the flea market, the arts and crafts or the yard sale.

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Honestly, one yard sale I had a number of years ago, I think I wound up making

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like near a thousand dollars in a day, only working five or six hours.

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We had some big ticket items out there and got very lucky. But,

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you know, my point is that there can be an exorbitant amount of cash floating around.

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And so whether you’re working a fair, a yard sale, you’re a street vendor,

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you kind of want to come up with a system for handling that cash.

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Now, look, some people at fairs insist upon having a till that’s lockable.

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That’s great if someone constantly is holding that till or over that till, working that till.

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But having a till means all your cash or a good chunk of your cash,

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I’m assuming, is in that till.

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And that’s really not advisable because all I need to do is grab that till and

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run, right? You’re making it easier for me.

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So instead, what I would recommend is keeping your cash on you.

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And then as you have time doing a cash drop, much less like a restaurant would

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do throughout the day, when you start to accumulate some bigger bills or you’re

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starting to get a wad of cash,

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looking to take an opportunity to, you know, go back to the car and put some

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into the trunk, go into the house and drop it off and come right back out again.

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Again, being cautious of what’s going on around you, making sure you’re not

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being followed and making sure

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your business partner or your brother or whoever is there, your friend,

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whoever’s there with you knows that you’re taking a quick break to do those cash drop.

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And, you know, coordinating with your partner on the job is part of it too,

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just as a sidebar note, right?

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Communicating with one another, whether you’ve got to go to the bathroom or

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you need to get rid of some cash, whatever it might be.

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But when it comes to cash, we need to get a system in place.

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So what I recommend doing, I’m not a big fan of fanny packs,

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but that’s obviously a way, a place of keeping cash that’s really convenient.

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You can put it along the front line of your body yourself and have it right

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there to work in and out of.

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But for me, I like to keep small bills in one pocket and bigger bills in the other.

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So if someone does happen to ask me for the cash on me, I will try to give them

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the small bills first. Now that might not work out.

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But typically, they’re going to be in a hurry. I’m going to give them all I

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got, and that’s going to be it, hopefully.

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May or may not work. Again, nothing’s 100%, but we’re trying to reduce our negative impacts, right?

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So I like to keep smaller bills in one pocket and larger bills in the other.

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And then at some point, I want to do some type of cash drop.

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Again, whether it’s going back to my car, coordinating with my partner on site,

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letting them know what I’m doing, where I’ll be, paying attention,

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making sure I’m not being followed,

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dropping that money off in the trunk as quickly as possible or in the house

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as quickly as possible, and then coming back out.

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And again, we don’t want to leave that out in plain sight.

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Speaking of plain sight, one of the things that I see out in public a lot of

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people counting out large amount of cash out in the open, right,

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for the whole world to see.

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Try to avoid doing that, You know, count it underneath the table at your booth, worst case, right?

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Turn around and keep it close to yourself.

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Step behind the curtain. If you’ve got to count a lot of cash,

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excuse yourself and go inside the house or wherever it is. You see what I’m saying?

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Like avoid doing the big cash count out exposed to the world because that’s

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just showing folks what you got. And you’re really making yourself a target

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anytime you count cash out in public.

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So don’t do it. When it comes to handling cash, you know, you want to be cautious of the scammers.

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I remember years and years and years

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ago, I was working a part-time job is actually my first part-time job.

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And I got scammed. A guy gave me a $10 bill, if I remember right,

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and I gave him his cash, his change back after his purchase of his drink or whatever.

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And he tried to tell me he’d given me a $20 bill and got very vocal about it and very angry at me.

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And I fell for it, right, because I was a kid.

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I was 15 at the time, and I was a kid, and I felt the pressure of,

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you know, doing right by him.

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And so I gave him back the incorrect amount of change and I didn’t get in trouble

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for it, but I did tell my supervisor and it was a big mess and it was an important lesson.

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So, you know, when you’re handling cash, you want to be smart in how you handle

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it and how you’re communicating.

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You know, an easy way to help thwart that scam is anytime you receive denomination and bill, repeat it.

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When you take it from the individual, repeat it back.

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Say, okay, out of 10 or out of 20, whatever it is. And that way you’re vocalizing,

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you’re letting them know you’re aware and that you’re paying attention.

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And hopefully those around you will also hear what you’re saying.

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So that’s a tip I’d give you there as well.

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And I know that for most smaller vendors, you’re not going to have cat.

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You’re not going to have.

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Cash registers. But if you do, one tip that I picked up working in retail and

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in the restaurant business over the years is when you get big bills,

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like let’s say 50s and 100s, go ahead and put them under the drawer and not in the drawer.

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Again, if someone comes up, that extra step of having to remove the drawer to

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get that cash out is going to slow them down.

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So at least by keeping those bigger bills out of the drawer and underneath it,

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you’ve made it less likely that they’re going to be able to get to those as quickly.

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And therefore the hope is, is that they don’t stick around knowing that,

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that trick, but that’s something else that you can do if you’re happened to

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be using a cash register, or if you’ve opted to use a till,

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you know, the same policy applies there too, right?

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Keeping those bigger bills underneath the main area.

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If you have a drawer inside there, so to speak, but again, if they grab the

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till, of course, that’s not going to do you any good, But it’s more about the

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grab and run than it is taking the whole thing in that case, too.

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The biggest thing that I’d say about cash and, you know, if you think of things,

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please feel free to email us or drop a DM and our Instagram posts.

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But the biggest thing I’d say about cash is when you’re done,

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when you’re done for the day, get that cash to the bank as quickly as possible.

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And of course, you know, ideally, you don’t want to go after dark.

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You don’t want to be walking up to ATMs after dark, especially if you’re by yourself.

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So be smart about when you go to the bank, but get that cash to the bank as quickly as possible.

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You don’t want to keep large amounts of cash on your person for long extended periods of time.

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And you shouldn’t have a lot of big cash in your home, especially if someone

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knows that you’ve had it.

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Not saying that a yard sale is going to turn into a home invasion.

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We’re not using scare tactics, but home invasions are generally caused when…

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Someone that’s been following your patterns or is aware of what you’re doing and what you’ve got.

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Home invasions a lot of time are driven by the known fact that there’s large

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amount of cash and or drugs in a home.

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And so you don’t want to make yourself unintentionally a target of home invasion.

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That’s probably the extreme of what could happen.

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But again the best thing that you can do after

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playing with cash so much cash in

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the day is get it to the bank as soon as

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you possibly can and get it deposited and then of course the last thing I’m

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going to say is one thing for you to consider if you’re not already is you know

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there’s a lot of online payment options these days I can think of three or four

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off the top of my head yes they charge fees,

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but it is an alternative.

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It’s a convenient alternative for people that want to buy things from you.

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And most importantly, it reduces the amount of cash being passed around.

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So I would recommend looking into that as an option if you are so inclined.

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Just the last couple of things I want to mention here as far as safety goes

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and generally, you know, Being a gun person, I have to say this,

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you know, if you’re going to carry a gun on your person and assuming the venue

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that you’re working in allows it.

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And if they don’t have a formal policy, then that means it is allowed.

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But if you’re going to carry, carry concealed. Don’t carry out in the open.

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You don’t want to make yourself a target, and you don’t want to scare off your customers, right?

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Most importantly, you’re there to sell and make money.

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Seeing a gun exposed might intimidate some people, or they may wonder why you need a gun.

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You just don’t want to be that person. So if you’re going to carry and you have

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the right to carry concealed, in other words, you’re carrying legally,

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you have a permit, if you’re required to have a permit in your area,

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carry concealed and just know that if you think the use of a gun is going to

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be required, just remember you are in public and there’s probably a lot of people around you.

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So that is points of consideration when you are carrying a firearm in public,

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certainly like any other time.

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And then the last thing that I want to mention, too, is stay hydrated,

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you know, especially if you’re out in the heat like we talked about earlier,

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the 95-degree day in the summer yard sale.

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Make sure you and the kids stay hydrated, you know, and have some snacks.

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If you’re a vendor, you know, at an arts and crafts fair or the flea market,

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be sure to take plenty of water and snacks because you’re probably not going

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to be going off to eat a meal during the day. So I recommend keeping water and

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snacks on hand, certainly.

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So with that, that concludes our podcast. This one I wanted to keep short and sweet.

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It’s a little longer than I thought it was going to be, but we’ll come in here

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right at the 30-minute mark.

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I hope you’ve taken away something from this and just some thoughts around keeping

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things locked down, having a heightened sense of situational awareness,

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and some tips and tricks on how to better handle that cash that you are going

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to have to deal with as you’re selling. And thanks for listening.

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Music.