#18 Money Making Idea

Buy and sell oil paintings. Buy new paintings from artists and old paintings from collectors and householders. Sell the paintings from: home, a roadside site, a stall at crafts fairs or hire stalls for exhibiting all the paintings you have for sale.

#17 Money Making Idea

Make an income by selling lucky charms at car boot sales or door-to-door. Sell, for example: Rabbits feet, horseshoes and four-leaf clovers. Start by tracking down trade sources of lucky charms.

#16 Money Making Idea

Devise and produce a board game which simulates the experience of starting a mail order business. The usual problem of bringing out a board game is the difficulty of getting it stocked in shops. However, a game about mail order can be sold by mail order to business opportunity seekers.

#15 Money Making Idea

Select one sea-shell which would be suitable for a ashtray, another for a pip tray and another for a paper clip tray. Put these shells into a single packet and sell as a set of useful sea-shell-trays. Sell from souvenir and novelty gift shops.

#14 Money Making Idea

Start a venture which promotes the art and hobby of window painting. On coloured acetate paper have outlines printed pictures by numbers. These acetate sheets are stuck to one side of a window and anyone can paint a picture on the other side of the glass.

#13 Money Making Idea

Paint on wood stylistic house numbers and names. These painted numbers and names will be an attractive alternative to the traditional names burned into sliced logs. Get your work stocked at shops which sell garden products or household goods.

#12 Money Making Idea

Create a mail order business which specializes in selling product which help people sleep. Products might include: Sleep inducing cassettes, special bedtime clothing, herbal pillows, books and guides on how to sleep better.

#11 Money Making Idea

Paint attractive art on rocks to make souvenir paperweights and doorstops. The art might take the form of abstract pattern, traditional pictures or tourist scenery. Call your rocks "designer rocks". Add a rubber base to paperweights and a rubber edge to doorstops.

#10 Money Making Idea

Set up a company which produces a compendium of strip games, for example: Strip poker, strip snakes and ladders, strip lotto, strip snap, strip ludo. Sell by mail order from adverts in X-rated magazines.

#9 Money Making Idea

Begin a business which rents out large and expense astronomical telescopes to householders who want to develop their interest in astronomy. Publicize your service at the local astronomy society and use local advertising to attract clients.

#8 Money Making Idea

Bring out a correspondence course about how to write cookery books. The course might include information about: How to devise recipes, how to present them in written form and what makes a successful cookery book. Produce a prospectus and advertise in women's magazines.

#7 Money Making Idea

Make cotton gloves especially designed for coin collectors. The gloves prevent the grease and moisture from fingers getting onto coins. Package the gloves and sell them from ads in coin collecting magazines or distribute to shops which sell collectible coins.

#6 Money Making Idea

Establish a directory of products no longer made. This directory might include sections on toys, novelties and household goods. Design the directory for business people and inventors who want to know both what has been made before and what ideas might be revived and/or modified.

#5 Money Making Idea

Design and manufacture kits for making models with cocktail sticks, for example: model churches, castles, windmills, house, etc. Buy the cocktail sticks in their unpacked state from the manufacturer. Sell your kits by mail order from ads in craft magazines or distribute to model shops.

#4 Money Making Idea

Bring out a regular publication for ambitious amateur musicians. This publication might include ads from :

1) Employers seeking musicians.
2) Retailers selling equipment accessories and supplies.
3) People selling used equipment.
4) Musicians seeking to make contact with other musicians.

Also publish interesting editorials and letters.

#3 Money Making Idea

Introduce to your region a service which mounts maps for businesses. Keep a stock of local, national and international maps. Mount these maps in a professional manner to suit the wall space available at offices. Send out leaflets about your services to office managers.

#2 Money Making Idea

Make money from renting out expensive children's toys. The toys you rent out will include remote controlled models and computerized games. Use a little van to deliver the toys to customers. Paint in toy town color scheme. Call the van a toy mobile or similar suitable name.

#1 Money Making Idea

Produce Christmas cards which are printed on the front with, for example, "Happy Christmas from the "Chua Family". Or, instead of the name 'Chua', pick one of the dozens of other popular surnames. Sell packs of these cards by direct mail to people listed in telephones directories.