Dosh - you know - collecting the readies
I want to be coining it, rolling in filthy lucre, getting more bang out of every buck, turning a pretty penny, minting it, saving for a rainy day, making moolah, sitting pretty.Considered the conventional way - working 40 hours a week for 40 years to retire on 40 percent of my income. Hmm.
One guy I knew back in the horse days has a funny old factory making lightweight wooden crates for shipping fruit and vegetables. He has a sideline selling by-product - shavings - to the pet industry - hamster bedding, mainly. Millions. He works hard, mind.
I like bizarre ideas. I looked up a few that made millions
1. ashleymadison.com - a website for married people to have affairs
2. Pooperscooper.com - scooping up dog poo.
3. Superjam - a teenager selling his gran’s jam from a Scottish kitchen
4. Specs for dogs
5. Plastic wishbones, so everyone gets a wish at Christmas
6. Wuvit - microwaveable pillows
7. Selling pixels on a webpage
8. The guy who created a company that provides excuse letters to miss work
9. Lasermonks.com - the monks selling refilled printer cartridges
10. WhateverLife - a teenage drop-out selling MySpace layouts
I repeat - these all made millions.
So I need an idea which is simple, unique, feasible, do-able, will catch public fancy, and let me sit back after I scoop in enough to keep me comfortable for the foreseeable.
Got one for me?
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Oddly enough not true although more people believe it every day and more incredibly bad books with mediocre stories, abysmal writing, and no input from a professional editor, hit the stands, mainly the cyber ones, every minute.
In the time it took me to type this comment I’d guess at least twenty new books got published.
Let the millions commence
Have you tried one of those nice umbrella hats? They come with a drinking straw so you can drink handsfree as well -
But, but, I may have stumbled on something. An umbrella hat with built-in beverage ... what tastes good in rainy windy weather? cocoa? tea?
We just need to build in the thermos
If you can find a market for ammonia you will make a packet. There is an inexhaustible supply of it on Jupiter. And it can easily be harvested. I'm sure NASA could be lured into a transportation contract.
you don't have to pay me commission on this venture.
I don't have it. I'm just hoping they'll arrive, take one look, and start cleaning.
Okay, not riches but still, one problem solved.
2. Start a rumour on beauty blogs that liquidised dog-poo is the newest elixir-of-youth skin product. Dry it in the sun, tell them to add water and liquidise in their Nutri-bullet.
(If you run out of your own, I can supply you with a seemingly endless supply)
Menu.
Breakfast
Water and avocado toast
Dinner
Avocado tea and toast.
Supper
spiced bread and a selection of herbal infusions.
Activities include,
Breathing, moving very slowly, and finger painting
300 euro per person sharing.
all inclusive
Im only the front man,
You will have to take that up with management.
But playing statues may be on the to do list
Oh! please start making cover tops for the kitchen sinks and bathroom sink. So! I can put it over my sink when I don't feel like washing the dishes. At least! the dishes will be covered in the sink. And I can have a cover over my bathroom sink for extra space. When I need to place things on it there instead of around the sink. Please!.....
I'll need a front man to take the heat when someone has a disastrous reaction to the miracle mud and sues me. There's always one.
If I was there I would do your dishes for you
My dog will do her best, but stand by to ship backup. Even better, deliver it, you can be the front man
If you can convince them of the health benefits from sleeping while standing up I bet an awful lot
I Am Already Using The Towels! But I Think I Would Perfer Something Covered With A Hard Surface Material Or Stick Rubber.
Nonsmokie
Aww! Thank You.......
Set yourself up as a kind of kibbutz for lost souls who are trying to 'find' themselves through the medium of physical labour.
Ok, you won't actually make any cash out of them, and you will have to feed them bean-stew every night, but, your house would be built on free labour...and love
Molly, I know exactly what Angel (and I) want. A solid cover that comes down and effectively provides a new worktop while concealing the old.
And why stop at one? With the simple addition of a step, we could have up to three used and waiting for Non to come do the dishes.
I Been Longing For This For Months!
I even been thinking about asking a Hardware store or someone to design me one for my kitchen and bathroom.
My cooker, thank heavens, does have a lid.
It's the sink. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Back in the day I had an old dish-washer and that was so easy, just hide things in there until I had the energy to press the button.
I miss that so much
Yes! That is very close to the ideal of what I am talking about. Coming in different material, colors and sizes....
Yes, Yes! We Can Do This.
We can sale these to different types of stores/ companies. Based on the types of stores. Upscale, cheaper stores.
Depends on what type of store! The material will it be for the price.
Face,Molly, but it looks expensiveWhat you think, Angel?
I can agree with Mollybabe! She do has some good points....
Those who need to cement their todgers must live with their own conscience. Nobody here at the retreat is expecting miracles, or for that matter judging.
Well, for the time being that shouldn't be a problem. The house is actually quite cold in winter so one would need to coax the todger to uncurl itself before there was any danger whatsoever of being cemented.
I never did ask, who'd be paying the yoga teacher? I mean I'm already committed to 15 people showering at my expense, and eating their own weight in Brussel sprouts (ok, and cauliflower), so don't look at me.
If I can't sell those photos for a tidy little profit, this could cost me, and considering this blog is all about hauling the dosh my way, I'm having second thoughts.