What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Tip of the day: To find older General Chats, simply click on my profile -> posts and you will find it there.
I'm still batting around the idea of doing subtle Q related apparel and stickers for those who want it. I have skills that I want to put to use to further a movement that I genuinely care about. I'm not super smart so I'm not one of these guys doing 1000s of hours of OSINT but I kind of know how to do moderately decent graphic design.
The issues i'm struggling with are the concepts of "paytriotism" because there are A LOT of grifters being outted right now and tons that are still lying in brush like ambush predators.
The two issues I have are, if I used something like redbubble or even a personal shopify there would be some profit unless I priced things extremely low. I could donate profits but I don't trust literally ANY charities right now.
Thoughts? ;___; -sniffle-
You could always donate to catbox.moe - I hear they're needing help.
I will definitely add them to the list of "ok to donate". I use catbox myself and I really appreciate the service they are offering.
Also I love cats lol
I am trying to find ways to raise funds to start Camp Yesu which God placed on my heart to rescue kids and you adults from traumatic life situations (I posted mission/biz plan about six or seven months ago) with no funds to work with for this massive, multifaced project. I don’t want to go the 501c3 route as I don’t want government involved at all. I can use fundraising help and am trying to complete pictures for a Christian tshirt idea. If that interests you at all. I can also email all of the documents I have compiled if you are interested.
I wouldn't mind taking a stab at something like this. Do you need help with designs? If you'd like to DM me on here I'd love to hear more and ask a few questions.
Would you mind refreshing my memory on how to do that please. I really struggled with figuring it out before and now I have forgotten. My grown kids call me a technotard if that says anything.
Lol, your kids are turds! If you click on someone's name on the forums where it shows their comment/post score, right below that is a "send a message" link.
Do you really have blue hair? Because I do. Sometimes people on the list think I’m one of them, so it opens up opportunities for me to share Jesus with them and just talk about stuff. To be perfectly honest… I like it! I love my blue hair. I’ve been dying it for at least 12 years, before it was popular anyway. I get weird luxe sometimes, but you can see Jesus shining from my eyes! It’s quite perplexing to some!
When I made this account it was blue, and then green, and then teal; and now I'm like a coppery red for a wedding that's coming up. I also have a lot of facial piercings haha so my belief sets are definitely assumed from both sides!
Sometimes it makes me feel like a secret agent. :P I'm kinda lame.
So do you do graphic work? Do you work with vector graphics? I dabble a little in vector graphics, but no where near being a pro at it. I started a apparel printing business years ago, but had equipment issues which took forever to fix (company ended up switching the equipment with a different model), so closed it before I could even sell anything. There was a lot going on for me at that time, like my mom becoming very sick and passing, so I gave up on it. I still have all my equipment to print and some blanks. Been wanting to sell all the equipment & blanks but my husband tells me to just keep it and I can print stuff for us, family & friends as gifts.
I would say go for it if it’s something you are interested in. You will never know what can be, unless you try. I wish you lots of luck and pray you do well at this new venture!
I'm really sorry for your loss. I know how much life trauma can affect your creativity and drive.
I have very minimal vector graphic knowledge. Most of my stuff has been freehand or text work. I can do relatively basic vectors but most of my past stuff is just high resolution large images.
When you say equipment do you mean like a silhouette/cricut type thing?
No I have a big Oki White Toner Printer, digital heatfx EZ peel transparent transfer paper (sheet A) & bottom sheets (sheet B), a Hotronix Fusion 16x20 with Drawer and Swing Away heat press, small cheap hat/label press (hat press part didn’t work well on the hats we got, so mostly use the small flat label platform for small projects), blank shirts, bags, hats, a program (Digital Heat FX Print Optimizer Software) for the printer for putting bunch of tiny holes in your design for longer lasting printed graphics on apparel (it also takes colors out of your design through the program if want it to). I use Corel Draw graphic program. Have other little things too, like a laser light to help align your graphic on shirt, a paper cutter for cutting the digital heatfx transfer paper.
Yeah, we got the whole set up, wish I could have made it work. Now I just don’t know if I have it in my physically to try and start it back up. The equipment is all still like new and works great. I only use it to print stuff for us or gifts. I’ve even done some neat thing with dog photo’s with my graphic program (Corel draw) and printed on canvas for friends of their pups. I’m not so good at making graphics from scratch, but can take pieces from other graphics I buy from a graphic site and make changes or combine some of this and some of that to make what I need. My Corel draw program can make pretty decent vector graphics from a jpeg or png image, if it’s not a super pixelated image. And it’s an older business (2017 I believe) version of Corel draw, just can’t afford to purchase the newer version updates.
Dang I was NOT expecting you to have all that equipment. I really hope you find some motivation to even do local craft fairs in the future. People love that customizable stuff!
If you like designing things I have a few resources you might be able to have some fun with. They are premade, non-copyright PNGs that you can basically just piece together and have some fun printing and using that equipment!
I so badly want to get a laser acrylic machine or even a resin printer. But I'm not sure I can justify $10k charges for fun little projects lol
Take the profits if you want to donate and hand the money directly to homeless people or buy food and deliver it to senior citizens who are struggling
I like the idea in general, but my particular city can not be trusted with donations to the homeless.
I would buy food and hand it to the homeless. Or socks. Or feminine hygiene items for ladies. Give it directly to the people
Those who spread fake information in the guise of being patriots and having insider connection, but in reality using it as a platform to sell merchandise - those are the real paytriots.
You should never be ashamed to start a good old fashioned American business. Don't cloak it in anything else, present it as what it is - original merchandise for patriots.
Ty Bubble, that actually did make me feel better about it. There are no ill intentions. It started on a premise of my husband wanted a hoodie and when I went to find one for him they are all so bad and almost seem auto-generated, if that makes sense.
I think you should do it!