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Backyard EntrepreneurTM Wishing Well Investor If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. -- Benjamin Franklin
Make money working at home making wishing wells -- selling them and renting them for parties. Create Garden Art Wishing wells are an attractive addition to either a front yard or back yard. If you decide to build one on-site, you may incorporate stone work, in which case you need to be prepared to do some heavy lifting. Or, you can make wishing wells that are constructed entirely of wood. These all-wood wishing wells are lighter and can be shipped to the buyer, in kit form. Rent Wishing Wells for Parties You may also want to have inventory on hand to rent out for special occasions. These would be for weddings or other events. For these rental uints, you will want to include a circular painted plywood cover to use as a table top. Make Desktop Versions of Wishing Wells Small tabletop or desktop versions of wishing wells are cute and useful. Advise the buyer that these desktop versions make great gifts if you stuff them with cash. Paint some white with silver accents; they can be used at wedding receptions to collect cash for the lucky couple. They can later be used to hold potted plants. Some other desktop models should include a cover on the well with a small slot on top; sell these as savings banks. Sell Just the Plans for Wishing Wells Create several designs and sell just the plans. There is also a DIY market for folks who have the time and talent and just delight in building things.
Teach Building Nest Eggs There is nothing more perfect for a Backyard Entrepreneur than growing money. Be certain that you add one additional service as you create imaginative wishing wells for profit: teach others to save their money. Make speeches, send out newsletters, or add a set of instructions in every wishing well you sell or give away. Maybe the title could be: "How to Build a Nest Egg." Or "Grow Your Own Money for Fun and Profit". Advise readers to consider doing some of the following: 1) do not incur debt in making retail purchases (except in an emergency); 2) when you make purchases with credit cards, pay them off when you get your monthly statement (i.e., don't carry a balance); 3) include simple straightforward instructions in your lectures on how to save money; 4) reference websites which have compound interest calculators so that your readers can see how compounding builds wealth by adding interest on top of interest; 5) remind your reader that hs is not obligated to spend every bit of income, every pay period; 6) give some income to worthwhile causes and save some for yourself (eg., for a rainy day, for your old age). Make paper mache eggs for gifts. Cut a small hole in the bottom. Your customer then places money inside the egg and tapes the hole closed. Present this as a gift with a note to the recipeint to create a nest egg for retirement or a rainy day. Wishing Wells as Props When you become a consultant and make speeches make certain that you use a wishing well as a prop. Use one in your classrooms. Put a cover on the top and use it to display books about saving money. Add a potted plant with dollars hanging from it. Call it a growing money tree, Better yet, add a real money tree. Sell them while you are at it. Take orders or sell them on the spot. Every classroom in America should have wishing well and money trees -- from day care all the way through graduate school. PTA's in elementary school should help parents learn how to save money for their children. You can hire yourself out as the speaker all across America -- and beyond. Every teacher has the skills (or access to skills from a spouse, student, or fellow teacher) to put together a wishing well by following the instructions from the resources listed below. Get a wood burning kit and burn some famous quotes onto the well. Or write them on the well with a permanent marker. The quotes below are some examples of curriculum specific sayings that will inspire you and your students, or members of your audience. Quotes to Personalize Your Wishing Wells for Teachers These quotes were chosen either because of the author or the words spoken that related to the curriculm under which each is listed. Art: I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. -- Pablo Picasso Economics: Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. -- Sam Ewing Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. -- H.L. Mencken It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens. Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. Ethics: When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. -- Frank McKinney Government: Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes History: Never spend your money before you have it. -- Thomas Jefferson A penny saved is a penny earned. --Benjamin Franklin Literature: A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. -- Harry Lauder No man's credit is as good as his money. -- Edgar Watson Howe Math: Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. -- A.A. Latimer Science: Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. -- Zig Ziglar If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. -- Francis Bacon Sociology: In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. -- Author Unknown Poetry: Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. -- Carl Sandburg Psychology: I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. -- Joe Louis Theater Arts: Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -- Woody Allen Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Women's Studies: Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. -- Kay Ingram Where to Sell Your Wishing Wells Offer your wishing wells for sale at local lawn and garden supply cneters or at florist shops. Look on the school website, get the names of teachers, and send them a picture of your wishing well. Offer several suggestions as to how you could personalize it for them -- different suggestions for the different levels and classes taught. Let banks and savings and loans know about your wishing wells as these would make a great addition to the bank entrance. Churches need them, too. Your wishing wells would be a great way to collect extra money for the building fund, for homeless, or for a mission trip. The well would always be in place with a sign on it for whatever the collection is for. The sign would be changed as needed. Contact the national library association as well as local libraries. A wishing well displaying financial books is a great way to attract readers so as to create savers.
This is America, home of the self-made person, where we do not depend on the government to take care of us. This is America, where responsible people save money and take care of themselves. Here's wishing you well as you save your money and teach others to do the same. Create Savings Banks
Create your own line of special savings banks to sell to encourage a lifelong savings habit. Make them age appropriate. Design desk models for business people to keep on their desks to remind them to pay themselves first. Do not to consume all one makes. Shop Our Cafe Press Store
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