I started my first business in grade 4 at primary school… and it all revolved around Brooke Shields.
Sure I’d sold random pieces of craft (finger knitting, match stick creations and wool wound around icy-pole sticks) to the neighbors before that time…. but that was small time in comparison to the gold mine that I discovered in grade five when I noticed all of the boys in my class were plastering their books with pictures of Brooke Shields.
My Brooke Shields Picture Business
It must have been the year after Brooke starred in Blue Lagoon because suddenly I noticed her picture stuck to the front covers of all the books and binders on guys books in the classroom. Boys would gather around the new pictures that they found at recess and all the talk at lunch times revolved around Brooke.
One afternoon after school I was wondering around the house looking for something to do when I opened a cupboard in my hallway where our family kept all the games. Next to the games was a pile of my mums old women’s magazines. She would buy one or two a week and when finished with them piled them up in the cupboard. I’d never really given them much thought until I spied a picture of Brooke Shields on the cover of one.
A light bulb went on. The boys in my class were crazy for pictures of Brooke…. and here was one of the best I’d seen. I grabbed the magazine and flipped through it to see if there were more and to my surprise found a full article on her, with 7-8 accompanying pictures.
I began to make my way through the rest of mum’s old magazines and was over the moon to discover quite a few more Brooke pictures. Not only that – there were pictures of many other female movie stars, some of whom I’d also seen displayed on the covers of my class mates books.
The next day at recess I opened my first business. 5 cents for a small Brooke Shields picture – 10 cents for a large one. I only took 10 pictures the first day and they sold within a few minutes.
The following day I took another 10 Brooke Shields pictures and sold them for 10 cents for small ones and 20 cents for larger ones. Again, I sold out.
As the week progressed my stock of Brooke pictures began to dwindle so I began to introduce other models and film stars. I also began to offer pictures of male movie stars for the girls in my class to buy.
I also began to eye off some of the magazines in the local newsagent and realised that there were magazines for teenagers there that were literally FILLED with pictures that I could sell. None of my classmates could afford these magazines on their own, but if I cut them up and sold the pictures in them I could definitely turn a profit. A $1.50 magazine cut up and sold purely for its pictures could make me up to $5.
My next challenge was that my classmates began to run out of money. I’d been focussing purely upon class 4a (my class) as my target market but as they began to run out of money I started to look further afield, both at class 4b but also where I found the big money… grades 5-6.
I set up shop each recess behind the big tree in the corner of the school (the same place I later started to sell my services as a celebrant in playground weddings) and for a number of weeks did a brisk trade. At the peak of the business I was buying up to 3 magazines a week and making up to $15…. that was until Mr Woods discovered what I was doing.
On a warm Spring day I was opening up my store and customers were beginning to gather (quite a few of them by this stage).
Two grade 5 boys began to fight over who would get my latest big picture of Brooke when my class teacher, Mr Woods, happened to stroll by. Within a few minutes he’d uncovered all my pictures, my money and had put two and two together to work out what the business was.
I was busted and quickly banned from bringing any more pictures into the school for sale.
In fact in the coming week pictures of movie stars and models were banned from being stuck to the covers of books altogether. Not only was I not allowed to sell pictures in school time to class mates, but demand diminished as classmates were not allowed to display my product.
I learned a lot about business in those weeks as a Brooke Shields picture sales-boy.
- I discovered the power of watching trends and fulfilling demand
- I learned about the power of scarcity (selling 10 pictures a day enabled me to put the price up)
- I stumbled upon the idea that sometimes you need to spend money (on magazines) to make more money
- I discovered that I was an entrepreneur
Other Early Businesses Followed
Over the years I developed other businesses. Some worked, some did not.
My most successful was the store I opened out of a spare locker in my 2nd year of high school. I sold my classmates who’d forgotten their pencil cases pens, pencils, erasers, rulers, exercise books and other assorted stationary.
I bought in bulk and charged a premium price knowing that classmates would get in trouble if they showed up to class without something to write with and on. That business lasted a year (I kept it much quieter) and made me several hundred dollars.
What was your first entrepreneurial experience?
I’ve been thinking about these early experiences of entrepreneurship a lot lately.
Someone recently asked me whether I see myself more as a blogger, journalist or publisher. I answered that of the three I’d probably see myself more as a publisher, however that above that I think I’m probably more of an entrepreneur.
I use blogging and publishing as part of my business (and I love doing so) – however I think entrepreneurship is more how I’m wired.
While I love writing and communicating on my blogs and really enjoy building communities around them – I think the challenge of creating a business, dreaming up how to grow it and working to see it expand and reach its potential is more what energises me.
I’m wondering if I’m alone? I’m sure there are some who read this blog who are more wired as communicators, or as community focused people – but are their other entrepreneurs out there also? I’d love to hear the story of your first entrepreneurial experiences too if you have a moment in comments below!
My first entrepreneurial experience came in 7th grade, my first year of junior high. That’s when I found out people wanted to pay me to use my drawing talents to draw pictures of famous cartoon characters on jeans. That’s back when Mario Bros. was super popular. I made a good little stack of extra funds that way. What’s funny is that I never even began promoting on my own, they came to me all because of a notebook of drawings I kept with me. I drew pictures on one friend’s pair of jeans, and then next thing I knew, everyone wanted theirs done.
My first experience was just simply selling on food at school, for a higher price than I bought it for. A nice little business and you can make some decent money, especially as people seem so desperate for chocolate and sweets.
Lovely hearing your story :)
Nice business, I must say Darren but what you are doing now is a lot better. Isn’t it? :)
I am not very proud of this but my first entrepreneurial experience was collecting thrown away “Lines” – you know “Write 500 lines of I will not talk in class” and then selling them to those that needed them. No very ethical. Needless to say: It did not last.
I’ve been doing little things for as long as I can remember.
One that particularly stands out is from junior high. Pencil fights were hugely popular (taking turns trying to break the other’s pencil).
My dad brought home 1000’s of pencils from one of the manufacturers he represented. These were good, solid pencils.
I sold them for something like 10 cents a piece and made some good pocket money for about a semester, until the teachers put an end to pencil fighting.
One downside was that everyone put their pencil “scraps” into this spot behind a shelf in the back of the room. It was filled with “my” pencils, so the teachers made me clean it all out.
That’s the cost of doing business, I suppose.
The first time I ever had a successful entrepreneurial experience was in grade school. I remember it so clearly and it was good times. I would go around the local neighborhood and look for yard sales. I would buy the items I found to be awesome and cool and resell them at my house.
It’s amazing sometimes what people sell for two or three dollars in a yard sale I never could understand why. So I would by all the yard sales items I enjoyed and liked and over the next week I would sell them in my very own yard sale for three or four times the cost.
You know I thought I would have gone into that direction in my life. A used pawn shop or a hock and save type of business but I never did and up getting involved with it.
Overall it was a lot of fun I still remember coming home with my bike basket and arms full of stuff lol.
I was known as the candy man in my middle school. You see I lived by a Bodega (a local corner Spanish convenient store). Most of the kids in school didn’t have access to candy like I did. Since most lived in neighborhoods that didn’t have a convenient store.
I would buy candy for pennies, 5 cents, 10 cents and sell them triple the cost.
This was the start of my entrepreneurship. As I got older & wiser I started buying Real Estate and selling it. Today, I help people become entrepreneurs.
I sold Demon Gum in 6th grade. I could buy 2 pieces for a penny and sold one piece for 2 pennies. This moved up to other pieces of penny candy.
The real money rolled in when I found a big bag of telephone wire. The wire was coded in great color combinations. I made bracelets and sold them for a buck. They became the “in thing” and I did well.
Too bad I wasn’t smart enough to create scarcity.
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7 Responses to “My First Business Involved Brooke Shields [I’m an Entrepreneur]” – Add Yours
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Kiesha @ We Blog Better
May 8th, 2010 1:23 am
My first entrepreneurial experience came in 7th grade, my first year of junior high. That’s when I found out people wanted to pay me to use my drawing talents to draw pictures of famous cartoon characters on jeans. That’s back when Mario Bros. was super popular. I made a good little stack of extra funds that way. What’s funny is that I never even began promoting on my own, they came to me all because of a notebook of drawings I kept with me. I drew pictures on one friend’s pair of jeans, and then next thing I knew, everyone wanted theirs done.
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Simon | Profit Duck
May 8th, 2010 1:35 am
My first experience was just simply selling on food at school, for a higher price than I bought it for. A nice little business and you can make some decent money, especially as people seem so desperate for chocolate and sweets.
Lovely hearing your story :)
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Phillip Gibb
May 8th, 2010 1:40 am
I am not very proud of this but my first entrepreneurial experience was collecting thrown away “Lines” – you know “Write 500 lines of I will not talk in class” and then selling them to those that needed them. No very ethical. Needless to say: It did not last.
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David
May 8th, 2010 1:40 am
I’ve been doing little things for as long as I can remember.
One that particularly stands out is from junior high. Pencil fights were hugely popular (taking turns trying to break the other’s pencil).
My dad brought home 1000’s of pencils from one of the manufacturers he represented. These were good, solid pencils.
I sold them for something like 10 cents a piece and made some good pocket money for about a semester, until the teachers put an end to pencil fighting.
One downside was that everyone put their pencil “scraps” into this spot behind a shelf in the back of the room. It was filled with “my” pencils, so the teachers made me clean it all out.
That’s the cost of doing business, I suppose.
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bbrian017
May 8th, 2010 1:41 am
The first time I ever had a successful entrepreneurial experience was in grade school. I remember it so clearly and it was good times. I would go around the local neighborhood and look for yard sales. I would buy the items I found to be awesome and cool and resell them at my house.
It’s amazing sometimes what people sell for two or three dollars in a yard sale I never could understand why. So I would by all the yard sales items I enjoyed and liked and over the next week I would sell them in my very own yard sale for three or four times the cost.
You know I thought I would have gone into that direction in my life. A used pawn shop or a hock and save type of business but I never did and up getting involved with it.
Overall it was a lot of fun I still remember coming home with my bike basket and arms full of stuff lol.
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Josh Garcia
May 8th, 2010 1:54 am
I was known as the candy man in my middle school. You see I lived by a Bodega (a local corner Spanish convenient store). Most of the kids in school didn’t have access to candy like I did. Since most lived in neighborhoods that didn’t have a convenient store.
I would buy candy for pennies, 5 cents, 10 cents and sell them triple the cost.
This was the start of my entrepreneurship. As I got older & wiser I started buying Real Estate and selling it. Today, I help people become entrepreneurs.
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Sheila Atwood
May 8th, 2010 2:17 am
I sold Demon Gum in 6th grade. I could buy 2 pieces for a penny and sold one piece for 2 pennies. This moved up to other pieces of penny candy.
The real money rolled in when I found a big bag of telephone wire. The wire was coded in great color combinations. I made bracelets and sold them for a buck. They became the “in thing” and I did well.
Too bad I wasn’t smart enough to create scarcity.
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I love that you classify yourself as an entrepreneur over blogger.
I have to imagine that give you a much better focus in how you approach blogging too. If the goal is to be a blogger, you just write; if the goal is to be an entrepreneur who blogs, you write with intent.
At least, that’s going to be my take-away. :)
Thats a beautiful story Darren, even I had started a business two years ago in school which was of newspaper recycling and i made $2 each month, that was around 90 rupees and I actually enjoyed earning that.
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I think I was 9 or 10 years old. With two friends we went from door to door and sold old magazines, novels and other books that we found at home in the basement.
We let the people decide what they wanted to pay and they always payed more than we expected. At the end of a day (most of the time one hour later :-)) we gathered in a bar and while we spent all the earned money on Coca Cola we were talking about our business success.
Many years later when the Internet absorbed my attention I tapped into the adult market and stopped doing this after I could afford to walk into a showroom of a car dealer, point at a car and pay it in cash.
Hi Darren,
I was thinking about this, and I am thinking many may be able to relate to me. Remember when you use to go door to door and sell candy for your school? A lot of times as well, quite a few people would buy them from you, it got me thinking, gosh we were really good salesman back in the day that would make great entrepreneurs.
We have to keep that spirit alive and rejuvenated because back then we didn’t care at all what the answer at the door would be and just kept on selling.
Another Note:
I think it’s tough for many to see the potential because they are to busy looking at everybody else. For instance they see you on ProBlogger and just think well I can never get to that stature, but what they fail to see is the fact you were that person at one time struggling to find your way, but kept moving forward and grinding out and working hard.
I feel everyone needs to focus on a passion and do it for that reason, and worry about the overall profit later on. I think this will help them strive to be the best in there niche or field they work.
Thanks,
Chris Pontine
http://www.workingathomeknowledge.com
My first business came before I was even in kindergarten. I lived across the street from a gold course and I’d sell the golfballs back to the golfers for a quarter through the chain link fence. Not bad for a kid.
Thanks,
Mike Sullivan
http://SullysBlog.com
That’s an awesome story.
My initial dip into publishing was with a student-written newspaper in 6th grade. Unfortunately, there was some sort of problem with “unapproved used of the school copy machine” and Howdy shut down after one brilliant issue.
Nearly a quarter of a century later, I’m back at it, corralling about a dozen writers who write for me, allowing me to put out new content every day.
Some days I feel like Tom Sawyer suckering people into whitewashing the fence.
Great story!!!
I’m proud of people like you ! everyone in the world have the potential to success….
This is a cool post…it really brings back memories.
I have a few stories to tell about my entrepreneurial experiences at a young age.
The first one I remember is the Ice Cream business. I have to say I took the idea from a friend, but I was not his competitor because he lived far from me anyway.
Here is what I did- I would go around my block (this was in Colombia, the streets are really close to each other) and visit like 5 streets north door to door and asked people what was their favorite flavors of Ice Cream.
I went home the first time and made like 100 ice creams and took them back to the people. Told them to give me whatever was fair, then I told, How many do you want to pre-order for next week?
Not all of them pre-order them but I would go back and sell to those that didn’t. I always had about 10 clients ordering them, and eventually it spread around the neighborhood and I had my cousin do the route with me every week in our bikes.
This was my first one, then I opened a video game spot (we would charge 1000 pesos or 50 cents in dollars per min played) I was lucky to afford video game consoles others couldn’t so I rented a little place close to a public school and kids would come and play after…we had contest to win free pop and chips and so on. And I had fun.
Later on me and my cousins started a small lending business for poor people sort of like Kiva.org but it didn’t last people the people we lent money to were to irresponsible, but hey we tried to help people.
I did a few other things too, but I think this comment might be to long. Weekend Movie theater with pop corn in my house for 1000 pesos per seat…only five guys aloud…we wanted to meet girls and hang out with them…hey we solved a problem we had, right?
Sold water balloons, and flour on festivals on the busy places of the festivals. Its a culture to get people plastered in water and flour.
I was always selling something, now I understand why I love business so much.
What a fantastic story! If I were that teacher I would have left you alone and let your giftings grow.
My first business was a comic book Library at 6ish. My brother and I would get old comic books and rent them to our friends for 25c
I think that you learned one more important lesson from your 4th-grade picture business: new government regulations can drastically change or even close your business with very little notice.
Isn’t it funny how quickly your teacher banned you? We don’t teach kids how to be entrepreneurs, we teach them to study hard and get a good job for someone else. Glad it didn’t crush your spirit early.
To answer the question, my first business was buying and selling Baseball cards. I would be glued to the price guides for hours trying to plan my next purchase and sale!
I sold Gold-C and Entertainment books as a Boy Scout to pay for my summer camp a troop ski weekend every year from when I was 10 until I was 14.
I had a great idea for a business in 6th grade that would have been perfect, but I did not have the $300 in capital to launch. I came up with the money and gave it a shot seven years later, but I missed the demand and lost on it overall.
I tried lots of cool ideas including charging people for CD copies when I was one of the first to have a CD-R. I have a rap group with CDs for sale. I am also in an “entreprenuer club” with a friend always on the lookout for a good idea. Our first success was selling the domain for our failed Wiki for $200!
That is awesome.
A friend of mine in elementary school sold flavored toothpicks for 5 cents each. He had this little glass bottle of concentrated flavor that he would dip the toothpicks into after we forked over our nickels. We were so awe-struck by the whole process that he made a killing, until the teachers shut him down. Which I never did understand.
I was a drug dealer in high school. This is where I learned that I was neither an entrepreneur nor very fond of sales. But I liked the attention, I’ll admit -I had a lot of lady customers. I was horrible at it though. I spent all my profits on records literally the same day and often had nothing to sell because of it.
I started off by selling stickers when I was 6 or so. I had no idea about making a profit, so basically I was selling the extra stickers I had, as they used to be sold in sets of three sheets which all were the same.
The more interesting business was when I started my mother’s pads to my eight year old classmates. Go figure out how my marketing worked, selling something to girls they definitely did not need…
It’s the building of a business that is the fun part!. I think that blogging is the spark that makes a success of a website and has some great side effects:
* Google Page Rank Increase
* Traffic
* Buzz
* Return Visitors
* Sales!!!!!
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Hmmmm nice! I think you would be of 6-7 year when you started your first business!! Congrats!!
I was of 8year when I started selling game cds to my friends! I took empty cds and loaded games from my computer and offered at high prices! And I sold!
Ankush,http://ankushwood.blogspot.com
Hmmmm nice! I think you would be of 6-7 year when you started your first business!! Congrats!!
I was of 8year when I started selling game cds to my friends! I took empty cds and loaded games from my computer and offered at high prices! And I sold!
Ankush,
http://ankushwood.blogspot.com
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I think I was 9 or 10 years old. With two friends we went from door to door and sold old magazines, novels and other books that we found at home in the basement.
Hi Darren,
Up until I was nine years old, I lived right next to a golf course. My first business was finding golf balls that had been lost by golfers and then selling them back to other golfers. I’m pretty sure they were much less expensive than the new ones in the pro shop, so they were getting a good deal!
I think that being an entrepreneur is so special, because it really takes so many skills to succeed. All of my entrepreneurial endeavors have led to a lot of my personal growth in a variety of different ways.
While I did extremely well in business school, there are many lessons that only real-world entrepreneurial experience can teach you.
I used to say that people would be better off opening up a lemonade stand in a mall and trying to make it successful instead of going to business school.
But now I might change that to starting a blog and trying to make money from it. Perhaps with the exception of managing employees (though that could still happen), you can learn a lot about business by doing this.
That’s awesome story Darren.
My first entrepreneurial experience came in 9th grad. :D, when i was selling food at school, that time i earned more than $10..lol..!!
Thanks for sharing this awesome story !!
Thanks.
Dev
http://technshare.com
I can relate to this. In 5th grade my friend and I started selling candy to our classmates. I had “Sour Warheads” and he sold “Sour Gumballs” which we bought from our local deli for 5 cents a piece. We would sell our candy for 15-20 cents a piece(you got a discount if we liked you) and it was a success.
The money we made in turn was thrown back into buying more candy and soon we expanded to include some Taffy candy.
Unfortunately the gumballs caused a little bit of an issue since kids would end up chewing it throughout the day even though the rules were to throw it out after recess. Once kids started getting caught our sales started to drop…dropping prices or trying to sell 3 for 15 cents didn’t help to get rid of all of the candy so we were left with a brown lunch bag filled with several handfulls of candy. It was fun for the two weeks that it lasted but if anything we learned that we shouldn’t have spent most of our profits on product that we couldn’t rid of…this came in handy.
In 6th grade my friend and I introduced our two 6th grade classes to the wonderful world of Troll Dolls.
Right next to our deli was a card store going out of business and they had racks and racks of those big haired Troll Dolls which we were able to buy 2 for $4. We bought one of each kind and displayed them on our desks…then we took orders from classmates and had them place their top 2 choices just in case the store sold out of a certain hair color. $5 and you could have your very own Troll Doll sitting on your desk, it was a hit until the teachers got fed up with every single desk in the room having a Troll Doll figurine on the desks. :)
Amazing story Darren. I’m not an Entrepreneur, but I sure do like reading a riveting story like this that motivates me to think further than the regular boundaries.
Boy this kind of event always fascinating me and I am sure most of us have done some kind of buying and selling in childhood.
Great story Darren – an inspirational start to my Saturday morning
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In elementary school to earn some change to go ice-skating at the rink instead of the pond. My sister and I would trace pages out of our coloring books and staple them together and sell them in our driveway to the neighbor kids so they could have their own coloring books. We also sold some of our old nick nacks and dolls. We would make just enough for an hour of skate time.
When I was 8 i convinced my brother that my dad never read all the books in his bookcase.
We loaded them up in our red wagon that summer day and spent the morning pulling it door to door through the neighborhood, and beyond, till it was empty.
We had over $20.00.
My dad came home at 5pm and went to his bedroom to read the paper before dinner.
My mind has erased, gratefully, the next 15 minutes of my life from memory.
My brother, 2 years younger, convinced dad pretty easily that he was just the dupe in this deal. I, on the other hand, pulled my red wagon again till dark giving back the money and collecting every single book.
I learned:
1)Sell what you know you should, not what you think others don’t want.
2)Be ever ready to apologize honesly to avoid lifetime memory loss.
3)If I could have sold more books the next day, I would have doubled the prices!
Very enterprising, Darren! Myself? I ran a hotdog stand in front of my grandparent’s popular tavern, Anglers in Hayward, WI during the summers starting in 1970-1975, starting when I was age 7. Everything I learned about being an entrepreneur, I learned selling hotdogs. I developed relationships that kept them coming back every year…
I also was a part owner, along with my grandfather, of a foosball table for Anglers. I organized tournaments and we eventually purchased two more tables. These early endeavors paid for most of my college education.
That was a very good business experience Darren. I did not start any business before my blogging business. All I am learning about business from my blog and will have to learn more as time goes.
I haven’t thought about this in so long!
There were a few corner shops in my neighborhood, and they all had slightly different selections for candy and other treats. So when I was about 6, myself and two other little girls started a business of going around buying up stuff that the other kids liked and selling it all in the same place at a markup.
We only did it for one summer, but I remember winding up with like $50 at the end of it. Maybe I need to go into retail. Or candy.
I am thinking along the same lines, only in the opposite direction. I think I have figured out that I am more of a blogger and not entrepreneurial enough. I have been trying to be something I am not. Now I have to figure out how to make money by being me.
Very clever. I’m impressed.
I remember running a porch/yard sale and I think a kool-aid or lemon-aid stand during my early years :)
A few years ago I sold on Ebay, my husband and I tried the flea market, I’ve dabbled in affiliate marketing and now am a professional blogger. Oh and I make a little money providing childcare for other working moms.
Great post! I enjoyed how you outlined your origins as an entrepreneur based in something that you loved. Isn’t that always the best way to thrive, in doing something that brings you happiness?
My first gig was typical, a lemonade stand. What set it apart and made it lucrative was that I set it up in the neighborhood during prime time when construction, gardening and other crews were breaking for lunch. That’s when I learned the lesson of supply and demand.
Thanks for your fantastic blogging tips, I’m a new blogger and really appreciative of the skills you have to offer.
Sasha
http://hautevert.wordpress.com/
That is so funny, I sold pencils with NFL teams (National Football League) 7on it. The thing is that anyone could buy them for $0.50 cents inside of the school. But what I would do is I would buy a bunch, then when the machine ran out I would sell all of mine for $0.75 cents per pencil. That’s a $0.25 cent profit for each sale that.
That was a nice trip down memory lane.
Brian M. Connole
I really liked this!! Very funny. (I think you “wandered” around the house, not “wondered.”)
When my brother and I were very young (maybe I was 5), we would make ‘cookies’ out of mud in our yard. We lived on a large farm and thought we could get away with selling these by looking cute and showing them to all of the people that drove up to our house (my mom was a seamstress working out of the home – so people were always driving in). I think we charged a quarter each or something like that, and I remember getting away with it quite a few times.
By the time I was 13, I started making and selling actual goods in our local farmers market and travelling around to other small towns doing the same (jewelry, hats, scrunchies).
No more fake cookies. :)
As ridiculous as this sounds I got a good laugh out of it. I can’t recall ever being stuck that much on a girl as a kid. Of course, I can’t actually related to the even since I’ve never done anything entrepeneurial.
I never did anything entreprenurial as a kid, but my sons sure did. Their big kick off was the summer we were building our house. They were about 8 and 11.
There were quite a number of houses being built in our area of town so they sold cold pop to the construction workers. They’d get cases of pop when they were on sale at the grocery store and make tons of ice cubes in our freezer. Then at coffee break time they’d load up their wagon with cold pop and ice. They made quite a bundle over the summer.
One of them went on to be a pilot, but the other bought his own store when he was 22.
I wrote down everything I was willing to do on one sheet of paper… baby-sitting, mowing lawns, raking lawns, weeding, cleaning your house, cleaning the pool, odd jobs, cleaning out the garage, washing windows, washing the car, weed wacking…
Then I had my dad take them to work and run off 100 copies.
I walked up and down my street putting the “flyers” in between the screen door and the front door.
I had so many odd jobs, I had to hire other kids from the neighborhood because I could not handle all the work I was getting. I ran that business for 2 years. I bought a four wheeler, a Ford Mustang, paid for a trip to Spain and had more spending money than most 14-16 year olds know what to do with!
Thanks for the pulling up the old memories ;-)