In June of 2016, my husband and I went on a cruise to the Mediterranean with my best friend from high school and her husband. A few of our ports of call were in Italy. I had been to that region in June six years prior. No one else had visited there, so they took me at my word when I told them how HOT it was. Consequently, none of us planned for bad weather.
Well, June of that year was unseasonably cold and rainy in the Mediterranean. We overpaid for cheap umbrellas the moment we stepped off the tour bus in the town of our first tourist attraction, Pisa. We still got drenched from our necks down, and we were cold. It was not very pleasant.
We took those cheap umbrellas with us into our new few ports of call and didn't need them. When we got to Athens, we decided to leave them on the ship. While sitting on the tour bus outside the port, we saw the weather forecast and realized we had made a mistake. This time, we got totally soaked. Twice.
I had already paid for an umbrella—it was a shame I didn’t use it twice more for the same money.
In my research this week, I have discovered that I can save a lot of time, money, and perhaps a little bit of discomfort by using “an umbrella” that I have already paid for…my LLC. There is a fabulous little business acronym called a DBA. It stands for “doing business as” and it was created for registered entities who do business under an alias.
I’m going to take advantage of this protection. I hate it when my hair gets wet anyway.
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