As I finished up this morning's blurb on MakeDos and reflected on the fact that someone somewhere was savvy enough to draw up a business plan based solely on selling both common place junk and common sense creativity all handily wrapped up in themed packs, it struck me that in order for the product to have been deemed sellable a market for that product must first exist. Which means, simply put, that here was a product that existed because people the world over hadn't already had the bright idea to reuse-recycle-repurpose common discards as craft supplies, or game components or even toy robots and bathtub boats and building blocks.
Hmm...whodathunkit...
And here I've been doing just that all along.
I suppose I always figured that mine were not original ideas. That the daily routines and habits and structures of living that I slogged through were just bits and pieces culled from some greater universal list of components.
Pick some from column A, choose some from column B.
Drink coffee or drink tea.
Omnivore or vegan.
Tosser or keeper.
And then all of a sudden, clarity. All the years spent funneling out advice and suggestions and tips...of helping friends brainstorm...of invariably seeking out budget savvy solutions...of altering recipes and inventing new ones...and every day spent making treasures from trash... It's unique. Uniquely me. Uniquely mine. The product of my singular original creative mind. The commonplace that I live in is vastly different from everyone else's. The normal everyday I live may very well be new to you.
This evening Mister Man flexed his brain with another round of Lego Creationary at his grandparents' house and once again I was struck by the commonplace-commonsense of it all. Column A and Column B melded the old standard Pictionary with the sort of inventive Lego building that I see everyday from my son and made themselves a new hit! A moneymaking hit at that!
Good gracious!
Just think about it. How many times has a new product hit the market and you've exclaimed 'I thought of that' or 'I made something like that' or even 'I've been doing that for years'? And to think that there are actually people out there who've managed to convince someone to buy those very same ideas!
It definitely makes me wonder what treasures may be lurking undiscovered in my daily life.
How about you?
Perhaps it's time to write that book after all....
Or at the very least, create one new orginal piece of something and assign it a value.
In this day and age of financial instability it may just be that entrepreneurship is the safest way to travel. Why not corner the market on your own common sense? It's certain to be new to someone!
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