How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Million Dollars
- 1). Offer a bounty on Barbie dolls. Corner the market.
- 2). Invent a bungee cord harness a biking enthusiast can attach to a porch railing. Combining the two hobbies provides an extra adrenaline rush and a quick effortless trip home.
- 3). Entrance avant-garde audiophiles by selling blank CDs as live reunion performance of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence."
- 4). Expand your wine-making hobby by marketing a trendy wine to Gen Xers using grapes stomped in the mosh pit of an alternative music concert.
- 5). Experiment with battery-powered in-line skates and faux muscle-enhanced Lycra body wear to make keeping fit a no-sweat operation.
- 6). Make enhanced Lycra body suits pull double duty by packaging them with weights made of balsa wood for looking buff and cool at the gym.
- 7). Turn your art skills into money by painting sidewalk murals. Painting a clown on the driveway of the neighborhood grouch makes for excellent early publicity.
- 8). Take sculpting to a new level. Use your weed whacker to go bonsai on your evergreens.
- 9). Appeal to busy people who don't have time for two hobbies. Radio-controlled model ships add a new dimension to fishing. Remember those life preservers.
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Make money with skills developed at golf. An elaborate scatological vocabulary and variable math skills are in demand in Hollywood. - 11
Gardening is in again. Make your backyard an earthworm ranch. Remember, you'll need horses with extra-short legs for the annual roundup. - 12
Make a gardening hobby pay off big even if you're condo-bound. A surprising variety of plant vines can be dangled off a balcony railing. Be sure to pick your tomatoes before they ripen and fall off the vine. - 13
Break out your kid's chemistry kit and do a bit of gene-splicing hybrid work. The first one to patent a chicken pot pie plant is a sure billionaire.
