Talk to me & great money-making schemes

So my boss and I decided that selling lotion to people on the street would be an excellent money-making business. Seriously.

Last week some day, my hands were so dry that my knuckles started to bleed. Yes, bleeding knuckles! Anyway, I knew that my boss had 2 bottles of lotion on his desk, so I headed over there to “borrow” some. Only, he thought that I should tip him instead. So, I said, “hey, maybe other people would want to buy lotion too!”, so we quickly hashed out a plan. The set up was that I would go out into the street and solicit people to come up into the office and pay him for some lotion.

It all falls apart though, because our office is 14 floors from the ground, and I am only there 3 days a week. Clearly we would never make enough money for this to be a viable business! And I don’t know that it’s really fair because I feel like I would be doing a lot of the work, while all he did was buy the lotion.

This kinda reminds me of a time back when I was in high school, in Trinidad – my friend and I decided that selling mango chow was a good way to earn enough money to purchase a car! Yeah, that didn’t really work out either, sadly.

What crazy money-making plans have you hatched over the years?