More business ideas!

[vraiblonde]

These seem like no-brainers and yet nobody does it....

Remember my idea from years ago about a doggie daycare attached to hotels/etc in tourist areas? That's still in my mind. The doggie daycare at Grand Canyon Railroad was super cool, and yet that's the only place I've seen it in my travels.

Also people come to PCB for vacation, they're going to need beach gear - chairs, canopy, cooler, towels, etc. So rather than buy all that crap and have to leave it behind when they go, there should be a rental service. Not a set-up service where they just put chairs and an umbrella down for a ridiculously expensive fee, but you'd rent the whole shebang packed in a beach wagon to take wherever you want.

Rent a Housewife/Househusband. Someone to come over and fold your laundry, grocery shopping, make dinner, tidying up, minor fixee things, or whatever you need. This could also be Rent-A-Friend - you want someone to hang out with for a couple hours but don't want the commitment of actual friendship, sort of like a platonic hooker.

There are a like a million things people could do to make money and be of service to others. Think about your life - what service would you be willing to pay a reasonable price for?

 

[my-thyme]

When she retired my friend Dinah started "Dinah Care". She would do anything you needed done. Shop, drive you places, animal sit, clean (windows, ceiling fans, pools, ANYTHING), pull weeds.

She never had a free minute, unless she scheduled herself one.

 

[Sneakers]

Someone to come over and fold your laundry, grocery shopping, make dinner, tidying up, minor fixee things, or whatever you need.

Sounds like a maid.

 

[jrt_ms1995]

Sounds like a maid.

A man needs a maid

 

[SamSpade]

I remember there was many years back - a service where someone would just LISTEN TO YOU for ten minutes.
And it did well.

 

[RoseRed]

 

[vraiblonde]

I remember there was many years back - a service where someone would just LISTEN TO YOU for ten minutes.
And it did well.

Rent-A-Friend. Because you don't want to share your baggage with your sketchy amigos who'll gossip about you.

 

[vraiblonde]

When she retired my friend Dinah started "Dinah Care". She would do anything you needed done. Shop, drive you places, animal sit, clean (windows, ceiling fans, pools, ANYTHING), pull weeds.

She never had a free minute, unless she scheduled herself one.

See, I love this.

 

[Kyle]

 

[vraiblonde]

What about adulting training? Teach young people how to cook, do laundry, make a budget, do minor household repairs, etc. Stuff parents should have taught them but either the parent was too busy or couldn't teach something they don't know themselves.

 

[RoseRed]

Teaching cashiers to place the coins in your hand first! NOT on top of the bills! That bugs ever living F out of me.

 

[GregV814]

While in NYC for a training module, back in '87, I tried to hire "a wife for the night" . Not only was it a male vice detective in drag, I lost my security clearance, job, got a divorce, and this painful infection.

 

[PrchJrkr]

What about adulting training? Teach young people how to cook, do laundry, make a budget, do minor household repairs, etc. Stuff parents should have taught them but either the parent was too busy or couldn't teach something they don't know themselves.

I would benefit from that training myself.

 

[TPD]

Teaching cashiers to place the coins in your hand first! NOT on top of the bills! That bugs ever living F out of me.

I try very hard to teach my employees this exact thing. When I'm out, I usually complement the cashier who does it the correct way!

 

[Sneakers]

I try very hard to teach my employees this exact thing. When I'm out, I usually complement the cashier who does it the correct way!

And count back the change, not just hand it over?

 

[RoseRed]

I try very hard to teach my employees this exact thing. When I'm out, I usually complement the cashier who does it the correct way!

Hats off to you! I was at a store the other day and told the cashier coins first please, then the bills. He said he'd never seen it done like that before. I told him that's how it used to be done and not sure why it changed. He thanked me.

 

[limblips]

These seem like no-brainers and yet nobody does it....

Remember my idea from years ago about a doggie daycare attached to hotels/etc in tourist areas? That's still in my mind. The doggie daycare at Grand Canyon Railroad was super cool, and yet that's the only place I've seen it in my travels.

We have three pups,when we traveled a lot we usually stopped at Cracker Barrel (convenient, not great but consistent) and we talked about how somebody could make a good living providing care for the pups while people ate. Instead we just did a drive through at a fast food joint. Would have much preferred a sit down break at CB.

 

[Sneakers]

And count back the change, not just hand it over?

Ok.... just made a run to the credit union. Had significant money coming back to me after the transaction. The teller assembles the return below the counter out of line of sight, and basically says 'here ya go' and dumps it, bills and change, in my hands, didn't even count it in front of me. I glared at him and counted it myself.

Absolutely unacceptable. I might expect that from a 16 y/o at Walmart or something, not a financial institution.

Yes, letter sent to home office.

 

[Monello]

While in NYC for a training module, back in '87, I tried to hire "a wife for the night" . Not only was it a male vice detective in drag, I lost my security clearance, job, got a divorce, and this painful infection.

How long before you could sit comfortably in a chair?

 

[Gilligan]

Ok.... just made a run to the credit union. Had significant money coming back to me after the transaction. The teller assembles the return below the counter out of line of sight, and basically says 'here ya go' and dumps it, bills and change, in my hands, didn't even count it in front of me. I glared at him and counted it myself.

Absolutely unacceptable. I might expect that from a 16 y/o at Walmart or something, not a financial institution.

Yes, letter sent to home office.

That's the ransom money you promised me? I wasn't going to be too concerned with it being off a few bucks either way. You didn't send home office my name...right?