My printers bit the dust, or couldn't keep up with the demand. There is only one thing I could do. Buy a new printer. This means you need to either have cash stashed away for a crisis like this, or you need to always keep room free on your credit card. Some folks don't do either, which is a sure path to business meltdown. It's hard in the beginning, but this is why you might need to work a job by day, as you build your business by night.
Ink cartridges for my printers run out in the middle of printing books. Easy fix, but costly. Keep spare cartridges on hand. Store the packages in ziplock-type bags so they don't dry out. Also, be sure to check the expiration date of the ink. If it's near to expiring, a cheaper price is not a good deal!
My highlighters dry up. More ziplock bags to the rescue to store extras. I no longer buy the prepackaged colors. I buy packs of the individual colors I use. The prepackaged multicolors that are commonly sold in chain office supply stores have too many of the colors I don't like to use for indexing, such as yellow. (Yellow is too hard to see.) So, this helped a lot by not having a ton of unused colors that I don't use. The ziplock-type baggies took care of the rest. You can also use these bags for ink pens, gel pens, and other types of pens that dry up.
My telephone died. Thankfully, telephones are cheap! We don't need a fancy one, like multilines, intercom, and other gadgets. Nonetheless, if you don't save and plan for equipment failures, even a small cost can catch you unawares.
In fact, this is what oftens gets small business owners into trouble. When deciding how much to charge, they never build in (and put away!) a certain amount of future equipment needs!
I dropped and killed my cellphone. This was a deadly accident where I simply lucked out. That's all there is to it! To make a long, horrible story short, I lucked out to find a technician who really knew his phone stuff. WIth a little glue here, and a little cardboard there, and a spare part from a dead phone laying around in his office, VOILA! It was magic. I still have the glue, cardboard, and spare part in the phone, and it's been there for 2 years!
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