Money

Why do I go here?  One of my pastimes is thinking of ways to make easy money.  Don't you just love easy money?  So far I haven't made much, and time is running out.  I don't want to cheat anyone and I don't want to take government money.  I don't want donations even though I told our house guests this week end that I might solicit $100,000 donations on this blog.  If I got three, I'd be set for life.   I'd feel awful about that, so don't even try.  When people have a fundraising event, and say we've raised a million dollars for this cause, I think they have taken that money from others.  It's just a form of begging.  Not where I wanted to go.

I would love to come up with an idea or invention that would be worth a lot of money to a person or business.  They would make money from it and I'd get a nice windfall.  Don't you love windfalls?

The fact is many of us have ideas and don't do anything with them only later to see them offered in the marketplace.  I had a great idea this morning for a new candy dispenser.  I'm sure they could sell a million of them.  I'd like a hundred thousand for my idea.  I'm pretty sure this is the last thing I'll do with the idea, but I might check to see if they already make 'em.  My children could probably tell you of some of my ideas.  The one that comes to mind first is a drive thru convenience store.  They had one in Ann Arbor and I thought why not in Flint?   Still a good idea if anyone wants to do it.  I'd be open 24/7 unless I found it unprofitable after trying it for a while.  You would have to make it robbery proof, of course.  Another idea I had was the iphone.  Who knew it would be such a hit? 

The easiest money I made was on ebay.  We were selling a bunch of hand bags, that Brooke had collected over the years, at one of our legendary garage sales.  The price was $8 each.  One of the bags was a Louis Vuitton.  No one thought it was authentic though.  I showed it to a woman and said,"Don't you want a Louis Vuitton for only $8.00?" she replied," If that were a L.V. this part would be genuine leather."  I looked at the bag and thought that it is genuine leather.  These bags are made so perfectly it's hard to tell.  I listed the bag on ebay and got a tremendous response.  The final price was over $600.  Later the man who purchased it said he had it checked and it was genuine and he couldn't have been happier.  I still have fantasies about opening a Louis store here in Fenton.  Another good idea for some entrepreneur.  I'm just a talker and a dreamer.  Good for being a hypnotist though.  Something else I probably will never do.

I'm going to stop writing now.  Tomorrow I get a check up on my new heart valve at UofM Hospital.
I'm on my way to becomming a new man!  Maybe he will put into play one of the money-making ideas of the old man.