Posted on 11/26/2011 11:17:01 AM PST by Daffynition
They were dubbed the Millionaire Monks, a small monastic community in rural Wisconsin feted around the world for its wildly successful Internet business selling laser printer inks and toners.
As recently as 2009, the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank was projecting annual sales of $3.5 million for its for-profit business, LaserMonks Inc. And their prior and chief executive officer, Father Bernard McCoy, was talking expansion - of both the company and the abbey.
Today, the monks' 15,000-square-foot home on 500 acres in Sparta, Wis., is all but empty. They sold off their belongings - everything from furniture and farm equipment to religious artifacts - at an auction last month. And they have put much of their land and buildings up for sale.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
May they find a new venture and thrive.
Are you the handsome one in the middle hugging the GSD? You are a lucky man, I’m told, to have a New Skete dog. A few years back, I remember reading that there was so much demand and such a long waiting list for their puppies that they were not taking any new orders.
LOL...the handsome one in the middle is the GSD ;-)
They shoulda just stuck with brewing beer and ale!
You don’t even know how a nonprofit business works do you? Didn’t think so.
Perhaps monks and nuns who make things should stick to NON-tech stuff and stay with the old-fashioned things. Hard to explain it but I think the simple food, soap and such keep the religious closer to God.
Doesn't make that much sense but then it's just a SENSE I have about it.
it’s not anti-christian to point out a cult, we are supposed to call down the false prophets.
“How do you think they are going to support themselves? It’s not like they have a parish that pays them a salary derived from donations. Monks work. Always have; always will. Some monks make brandy, fruitcakes, package coffee, candy, train dogs, etc. These monks supply recycled ink and toner cartridges. They are not on welfare, so what’s your beef?”
They should survive like the monks in Belgium and make beer. Good Trappist beer. The best beer in the world!
I was really disappointed when I spent a week with the Dalai Lama. He is much more a political leader than a spiritual one.
Sad story. I often buy various monastery products as gifts, but we use so little printer-ink that this vendor wasn’t something we could use.
Six years ago, the Sherman/Denison area of Texas supported a Staples, an Office Depot, and maybe ten specialty office supplies. Today there is still an Office Depot (and two specialty office supply stores) bit only about seventeen or eighteen percent of the Office Depot is devoted to paper and writing supplies.
Two years ago I upgraded my word processing software to one that natively outputs epub.
The article said it was a for profit business.
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Well....if they don't have anything to do....
perhaps they could build a full size replica of Ely Cathederal....
only took the original builders 600 years from start to finish.
Still weird imo.
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