You can make money. It may not be a ton of money at the first moment but it works. Why? Because it worked for me as child. I never really thought about it again until it came time to writing this quick posting but just bear with me a minute.
Building wealth is a process that works one penny at a time. You may not think of it that way but maybe you should. We look at a dollar bill and it's no big deal right? If we lose it we might say.... "darn" but we won't lose any sleep over it. Now, take that dollar and multiply it by 100. Let's say we have a $100 bill and we lose that. Okay, now unless you're wealthy and you couldn't care about losing a $100 bill then you probably aren't at this website right now or you wouldn't find it interesting because you have an over abundance of money. Yet most of us aren't like that. If we found a $100 bill on the ground on the street we'd be thrilled and telling everyone about it.
Well, what is a $100 bill? It is 10,000 pennies. Now work backwards in your money making thinking. Take away just one penny and what happens? You no longer have a $100 bill. You have any assortment of twenties, tens, fives and ones and 99 cents in change. Each one is only as important or as impressive as you value it depending upon where you are financially in your life.
So what is the crazy idea? It's actually too simple. At any time in any city there are hundreds, if not thousands of public telephones and public copy machines. What do they dispense if excess money has been placed into them? Here's your keyword . . . CHANGE! Wealth is made up of change in different increments. The more CHANGE you have the higher denomination bill you can trade the CHANGE in for.
CHANGE is what makes five dollar bills, ten dollar bills, twenties, fifties, and $100 dollar bills. So doesn't it make sense to acquire as much CHANGE as possible? ABSOLUTELY! So let's take my idea of excess money from these machines and put it into a wealth building plan.
What if you were to make a map of all the pay phones and public copiers within a 10 mile radius of your location and then figure out the most timely route to get from one to the other. Then on a given day you check each of the locations first once, then twice in a day, then three times in a day. Check the CHANGE Return on each machine and grab whatever change is there. Be sure to peak under and around each machine since people are always digging for change in and around these machines and frequently will drop excess change.
The people who drop their money . . . CHANGE or not, are losing money and you are gaining money. How much might you gross in a day by doing this? I don't know. It may be $5.00, $10.00 or $100.00 or more! There's no predicting it because it all depends upon where you are, how many locations and which locations you search.
That's basically the plan. Sound ridiculous? Sound like it's not worth doing. That's okay. Someone else will find the money and they will be that much richer for it. It might sound crazy or not worth the return if you have to drive from place to place given today's gas prices, but you don't know until you try. What if you could bike from place to place and get exercise at the same time. That's two benefits!
Here's a hint. Concentrate on telephones and copiers at bus stations, airports, malls, train depots, mini-marts, courthouses, etc. . . the more public the place and the volume of people, the greater the percentage chance that you will find money at each location.
Remember SBA! Wealth is a building process! See it! Believe it! Achieve it!
Copyright 2008 - Christopher A. Pearsall, Entrepreneur
