Typhoid's Advice Column

[manasecret]

Me second!

My girlfriend and I want to buy a snowball machine. As a review, snowballs differ from snowcones (at least in local language here) in that snowballs use shaved ice while snowcones uses what is more like crushed ice. The difference is you get a nice powdery almost slushy treat that soaks up the flavors with snowballs as opposed to what amounts to chewing a bunch of ice with a little bit of flavor on it.

The machine costs about $1900, and we have room for it in our home. Every once in awhile, we would also like to take it down to the park at the end of our street where lots of little league baseball games are played, to sell some snowballs street vendor style to recoup the price and maybe eventually make a small but fun profit.

The thing is, that $1900 plus the say $200 in cups, straws, spoons, etc. would go on my credit card. We decided we would buy once I got a new job, but it looks like I will be sticking around at my old job for at least another month or two. That's still in time for summer, when snowballs are the perfect quencher for the sweltering Houston heat. But I may not actually get a new job for many months more and maybe even past summertime.

My question is, should I:

A. Buy it right now
B. Wait until I get a new job, even though that may be a long time from now
C. Not buy it at all

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A side question for anyone who knows about such things, is liability insurance required for street vendors?