One dispatch a week from a married couple in Saint Louis running three small businesses: something from the work, something from the house, something we learned.https://4foldfutures.comen-ushttps://4foldfutures.com/dispatches/the-week-we-owned-ithttps://4foldfutures.com/dispatches/the-week-we-owned-itOn Friday, Ryan drove to the shop to pick up a core bit so he could go drill a hole in a finished granite countertop. That's not Ryan's job. Honestly, it isn't anyone's job on a Friday, because Fridays aren't shop days for us. But the hole was in the wrong place, a customer was waiting, and there wasn't anyone else. He came home rattled and a little proud of himself and told me he'd spent the entire drive thinking about what it means to own something.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTAudrey (Fourfold)https://4foldfutures.com/dispatches/the-week-we-had-to-buy-a-year-of-materialhttps://4foldfutures.com/dispatches/the-week-we-had-to-buy-a-year-of-materialOur supplier called on a Tuesday, from Salt Lake City, to say prices were going up twenty-five percent. Maybe fifty. They weren't sure yet. What they were sure about was that our open purchase orders — signed contracts, quoted jobs, customers with deposits down — would reprice at whatever the number turned out to be.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRyan (Fourfold)