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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Apart from the time the upmarket catering business I worked for decided to close, and I set up my own business in a bowling club's kitchens to see out the last few commitments, and sold a thriving catering business a year later - yes, I bottled it. Suddenly realized I owed a fortune in VAT.
Apart from the time I moved everything I owned to England without a job to go to or a house to live in. I had 5 weeks, while my furniture was on the ocean, to find both.
Apart from the time my English office said they were shifting operations up to Scotland and I decided hey, Scotland, I have Scottish blood, wanna take me with you? and they said yes and I had to buy a place because I couldn't afford to rent one - saw it once, for 15 minutes, and said yes, ok, I'll buy. Then flew back to England to carry on packing.
Apart of course from coming to Spain and now see where taking chances has brought me, eh?
I'm a conventional timid type, very true.
Seriously, your yoga friend, maybe my enormous studio room would be just the job
But seriously, if you ever do decide to do yoga there, I do know of yoga teachers around there
Further pause to dash back home for camera and attempt to catch spectacular sunset effect (Daniela would be proud)
Fail. Oh well, there will be a sunset tomorrow. And the day after. Sunsets, unlike in Scotland, happen very nearly every day in glorious technicolour.
Jokes aside, I am a leaf in the winds of chance and sometimes the breezes carry me this way, and sometimes they carry me that.
I never dismiss any idea, however crazy. I never follow up anything, however brilliant it sounds, unless circumstances throws more straws that way. If I am on a path, and the winds change, I don't carry on pressing forward stubbornly.
If establishing a commune of building druids here is on the cards, another straw will blow in from another source and I'll think hmmmm, that's TWO
That last photo that Mollybabe put up of the sink. I like that! It can be made for all types of sinks material!
I might need one that would fold away and I could open a cupboard and pull out the next. And the next. Maybe a kitchen built into a giant treadmill, I could just pull down the fresh kitchen and the used one would sink out of sight ...
Loos for man-caves, though, you could have something there. Self-cleaning would be good, a comfortable warm seat for the rare times you need a seat, daily newspapers delivered through the door - any good?
But! You know, there will be a maximum about that you will be allowed to keep in it! Just like anything else to storage.... Just Saying!
you could have sell women's stockings over the internet and call the brand, "E-Legs"
Great idea, huh?
No? You don't think so?
Well, okay then, here I go again, another 12 hours of trying to come up with something.
How's your move going?
Although, having said that, my dream is for 3D-printed shoes
Any Pro service delivered to the public which can expand into a Franchise is also good.
Become a politician and you will be rolling in the gold.
A very light hand, some sensible rules and taxes for the good of the community, and execution for everyone who broke the rules or fiddled the taxes, or did anything to the detriment of the peaceful community. That should focus the minds of the populace.
Also ritual hanging for anyone who indicates wrongly while on a roundabout.