Tuesday 12 May 2015

money making


i've been a bit hard up for money recently, so have been trying to come up with some money making ideas. they say 'necessity is the mother of invention', but i think being poor and wanting cool stuff can definitely be yo momma too.

anyway, i was inspired by the film 'office space' - basically a film about trying to get out of doing work for a living, which really spoke to me for some reason - and one of the characters keeps holding up the idea of the 'pet rock' (if you don't know, the 'pet rock' was basically some guy who started sticking eyes on rocks and selling them to idiots) as the pinnacle of human invention, and all the characters in the film are making fun of him for this, but i really think he's on the right track here.

there are lots of glitches in the system and they're definitely always worth investigating.

as such, i have come up with the idea of 'DIRT BABIES!' © 
(the 'c' thing means you can't steal this).

it will be a shitty children's toy that they'll hopefully force their parents to buy by being brats about it.


i'm basically just going to stick eyes on a load of dirt and sell it for money, but this is why i think it's a good idea and will probably work:

  • 1) kids like dirt.
  • 2) you can make the dirt different colours so they'll be more collectible. 
  • 3) the dirt will probably fall apart if handled too much, meaning parents will be forced to constantly keep buying new 'DIRT BABIES!' © so they don't face the wrath of their loved ones.
  • 4) people say dirt will be dangerous for children, but i'll be using regulation safety dirt so there won't be a problem. 
  • 5) it's good for the immune system.
  • 6) they'll be really cheap to make... cheap as... well, yeah, you're not an idiot.
  • 7) i've put 'baby' in the title because babies are cute apparently. also they'll have really big eyes (not too big though - i want to keep production costs down) so you're distracted from the fact they're just lumps of dirt .
  • 8) i'm going to write a really catchy 'DIRT BABY!' © jingle for the advert (or just steal that one 'wheatus' did in the 90's about being a teenage dirt-bag baby) and maybe make a 'DIRT BABY!' © saturday morning cartoon to help brainwash children so much that they'll start screaming my product's name in their sleep and then the parents will have to buy it.  
  • 9) lonely-adult-nerd-men will also start buying just simply because they like collecting things.
  • 10) people will buy what i tell them to buy.

as you can see, i was struggling a bit to come up with 10 points, but don't let that put you off the 'DIRT BABY!' © hype train - all aboard! (whoop! whoop!)


here are some 'DIRT BABY!' © prototypes i've been working on. you'll notice i've put the photos through instagram to make them more appealing to morons.







and if 'DIRT BABIES!' © aren't the massive commercial success i know they should be, i'll probably come up with a proper idea instead.



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