It's quite funny
when a little kid sets their mind to something, they usually can pull it off.
Whether it's climbing up that tall tree or doing a cartwheel, they will do it a
hundred times and keep falling until they get it. For me, I wanted to make some
money. So I decided to sell rocks.
Genius isn't it?!? I
was about 10 years old and spending a week with my grandparent's during the
summertime. We were down at the Hudson River at their boat club for the annual
Clam Bake and tons of visitors were coming. I thought to myself, there are a bunch
of rocks by the river and I have lots of paint. So for no up front cost I started my
painted rock selling business! I set up my area in a grassy spot where they
would be lots of people walking by and started to paint. I painted flowers,
suns, mountains, rainbows and American flags on different sized rocks. As they
laid their drying, people started to take notice.
Then people started
offering me money for the rocks. Some said they would use them as a door stop
or put them in their gardens! The drawings were simple things but apparently I
found my niche market. I think I made about $20 that weekend. That is BIG money
for a 10 year old.
So what did I do the
following summer? Painted more rocks of course! And people that bought them the
previous year remembered and my business grew. Who knew, I was such an
entrepreneur as a little kid! I wonder if anyone still has one of my painted
rocks? :)
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