Let's Get Rich!

Ronald, they already have some flavored drinks like that but not water flavor, Kool aide & Tang come to mind. I don't expect to get rich with this idea but I do sell it and sales have been pretty good with no marketing, I harvest a free product that is readily available to me and I sell it for about $5.00 to $10.00 a pop, the product is sold online and it reproduces it's self every 7 days or so, the product is called "Duckweed" aka Lemna minor.

Mario, with Tang and Kool aide they sell powder. The joy of my drink is I would just sell an empty package. Add water and wow, you have water! I will look up what Duckweed is never heard of it.

See, I think you just get everyone to send you like $2 and you will tell them how to get rich. In response, you send back directions

1. invent something really good
2. market your invention
3. get really, really wealthy

Easy

Love that Kevin!

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Pet paint tube.

Fat free pure cane organic sugar

A "clap on" (just clap your hands) device that makes your bed instantly for you. You could get even more rich by developing other similar products. Snap your fingers and the bathroom is clean...and so on. The possibilities are endless.

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The idea here, is for anyone with a desire to succeed would send me $5 and I would send them a free sample bottle of the stuff full of M&Ms ( shipping is extra of course ).

All you have to do is take one a day for 10 days. At the end of the trial period you would send me another $5 and this time I would send you the original packaging and more M&Ms....

You would also be automatically enrolled in our "The Most Pounds Gained in a Year Contest". Winners would all be referred to the "Biggest Loser Program" for possible participation on TV. You could become Famous. Your Talent would be put to good use by trying to workout 50 Lbs of fat off within 30 days ....

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Kevin, do you remember years ago when that guy did that in a couple of the supermarket tabloids?

He ran an ad that said Send $1 to (and he put his address). Nothing else.

I thought it was so funny I sent him a dollar with a self address and told him I thought it was funny and I hoped he would let me know later how well the idea worked.

I got a letter back later and he said he got several thousand dollars. But, as to be expected, some one complained and long arm of the government shut him down and made him return what money he could.

Now here is the interesting part. Most of the people sent him the dollar and like me they did it just for the fun of it and because the thought it was such a clever idea. AND the government confiscated the money that he could not return.

Like the old saying goes, we should be thankful that we are not getting all the government we are paying for.

Floyd, that's funny. I can't figure out why the government stepped in on that one. After all, he wasn't claiming he would send it to charity. Since when is it illegal to send a guy a dollar?

I would like a device that would keep track of your socks in the dryer.....

I like getting rich the old fashioned way. A lot of hard work, knowing the right people, making the right connections, using the old noodle to get ahead.
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My roommate in college love the idea of the "Send a dollar" ad. It must be a really old story because he was talking about it back in the 80s.

Soupy Sales lost his tv show telling kids to go into mommy's purse, take out a dollar and send it to him.....back in the 1950's

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2. Work hard.
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I had a couple of ideas I gave away because I didn't see the potential.

I told someone that flavoured pop was just chemicals, that it could be any colour, the flavour was merely what it claimed and no-one would be able to tell what it was meant to be in a blind test. On the shelves a few months later, in a zing of absolute simplicity, the label depicted a lemon or berries etc, the colour was green, blue etc, the flavour was watermelon or apricot etc. I haven't seen it in a while - I suspect he just grabbed the money and ran.

In school I noticed that the 'flesh' colour of bandaids seemed to bear no resemblance to the countless flesh colours I'd seen in the real world. I suggested to a teacher that they may as well be bright colours, and have things written on them like Ouch! and Oopsy!

Well, they're not teaching now...

I would like to write a how to guide titled "How To Double Your Sales On FAA With Little Or Know Effort" and sell it to all the FAA members for just $9.99 per copy.

I'm thinking of opening an Oxygen Bar.

Oh . . . wait.

In Washington state where I live, you can grow pot and sell it, that might make a person rich. I can't because I'm a Federal employee. I could probably grow a green called Odoul pot and sell it as a safe green THCless pot. BAhah...that's not even funny. That's like vaping water...stupid.

Du Du Duckweed!!!

Here is a scam to make money that I always want to do just for entertainment value.

Not sure of the details on how you get the house but basically get control of an empty house. A nice one that would lease for a lot of money.

You run an ad in the paper and you have the lease price just below the real value so you get a lot of calls.

You only show the house by appointment only. You take first, last and a security deposit equal to one months lease. So if the house is leasing for $2000 a month, you get $6000 up front.

You lease the house as many times as you can in 30-60 day period telling everyone that they can not move in until a date just that allows all the checks to clear the bank and give you a chance to clean that bank account out.

Now here is the entertainment value. I want to be hiding in the bushes when 25 or 30 people all show up with their moving vans to move in.

I know that is sick... but it would be funny!

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Floyd,

I think people have actually been incarcerated for schemes of that nature. You might want to come up with something else, lol.

I am sure they have... I would never have the guts to try that!

I have a serious problem with small rooms with locks on the doors. lol

Floyd, interesting social experiment but being only a 5'7" guy I don't think I would like to have a boyfriend at the crossbar hotel!

Day trading anyone? Stock market is on a down swing.

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Way back before billboards had the flip thingy that allowed three ads, I thought of it (probably along with many other people who took the thought nowhere). I was driving a lot because my job was being an ambulance attendant. I considered the billboards to be excessive and ugly. Why not triple the space used and put the image on rotating triangle panels. A few years later, someone else ran with the idea. Lots of things are thought up by many people. One day, maybe, I'll take one of my ideas to the next level.

I have one that I thought of just the other day. It's a good one too. Not telling.

Sell bottle washers as vagina cleaners. Sell rubber fingers to germaphobes to stay clean while using the store pinpads. Sell UV lighting systems to homeowners to kill bacteria and superbugs. Invent a Roomba that rakes leaves. Invite folks to use a metal detector on your property for $50 a person and throw a silver dollar and random metal objects out there every once in a while to keep them interested.

Interesting....

Melissa, can you run that by me one more time?

Mario,

I dare you to repeat what she said without creeping out a lot of people. I double dare you.

As a dear old friend of mine used to say, "this I want to see".

I think in 31 states a guy can be arrested for saying such things in public, but that is another of Ron's threads.

Dave

wait the word vagina got you creeped out?

Dave, Please answer Melissa..Lol, this I want to hear.........I was just curious about the metal detector idea.

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Dave, where did you go?

you better not Mario.. thats would be so wrong to do the metal detector idea.. LOL.. noooooo That was meant to be funny wildman...



Now what is a great idea that I WOULD condone is planting blueberry bushes and in a couple of years it will yeald ALOT of berries and charge people per pint and let them pick them themselves. Well depending on your area and how much acreage you have. Research it before you do it.

Melissa, to late I already metal detected my 2 acre yard and all I found was a coffee can full of pennies, nickles, dimes and a few quarters. Lol Now your farming idea I did look into as I heard micro farming fresh herbs and berries like you suggested is a highly profitable business especially if you can do it organically. The only problem I found with the idea is that's it's pretty labor intensive and like all crops very dependent on the weather. Instead I started an organic gourmet cooking spice business which is doing well. Now the bottle brush cleaning business has me a little perplexed but in no way do I see it as creepy.LOL

organically farm one thing then add to it. Start with like.. tomatoes or whatever grows well in your area. start small like an 8x10 of nothing but tomatoes. Once you can control that add another vegetable or fruit like strawberries. Get on Mother Earth website http://www.motherearthnews.com/ , its full of nothing but micro farming advice up to full farms and orchards. But in order to see organically your dirt has to be, well dang whats the name for it.....someone has to come out and test it to make sure your soil is chemical free.. i forget what that's called though..With Monsanto and other creepy chemicals in our food people are reaching out to organic farmers more and more..

there are some folks that sublet a small portion like 10x10 up to 20x20 plots to folks who want to farm organically on their own but don't have the space.
I have 4 acres and when I'm too old to work I believe that's what I will be doing to support myself. Not only will it keep my land from being overgrown but I will have a myriad of friendships made.

Just as an added note. check your local department of natural resources and they are keen on giving out grants (up to $50,000) to new farmers especially women and minorities. I only know because my mom was going through the process but like a lot of her other endeavors she looses interest and goes on to something else. lol

Melissa it all sounds good, but gardening/ farming is back breaking work, I'm not saying I'm old but if I were a younger man I would consider it, now I'm more focused on brainy stuff not brawny stuff.They say if you want to make a living you work from the neck down but if you wanna get rich you work from the neck up.

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