My weirdest experience in going from broke to bucks was back when they were running all those BlueBlocker infomercials. One night something came over me and I picked up a notepad and decided to somehow get an idea from TV. I flipped on the tube and the first thing I saw was the BlueBlocker infomerical. It was really convincing, and even though I was broke, I started to dial the number to buy the BlueBlockers. Then I stopped and thought maybe I could find the BlueBlocker knockoffs. The next morning I ran into a friend with the BlueBlockers and tried them on. Then I drove to downtown L.A. and found a place where they sold the BlueBlocker knockoffs for just $10 per dozen. I bought 5 dozen, came home, and painted up several big wood signs for the Blue Block sunglasses including one that said "TRY ONE ONE AND BE AMAZED!" Plus the signs advertised them at just $5 which was way below their $49 price. The next morning I set up my signs at a roadside and while doing so I thought I heard an accident when I heard car brakes screeching. It turned out to be a car braking by my sign and a lady jumped out and bought a pair of Blue Blocks from me. It was a portent of things to come. For most of the rest of the summer I sold about $400 to $700 Blue Block sunglasses per day with very little work. By the end of the summer, copycats were all over L.A. doing exactly the same thing I was and they even copied the color pattern of my signs.
Anyway, that is what I did one summer to get myself out of Brokedom.
Your posts have always been so creative, I always thought you had some great media-type job.
But I've never been so poor that I couldn't leave town.
(apologies to the deceased).