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Recession winners
It seems Wal-Mart isn’t the only one turning up a winner in our economic downturn. U.S. News and World Report identified 10 industries, companies, and products that are doing well even in the midst of a recession:
- Home gardening;
- Hollywood;
- Escapist literature;
- Condom makers;
- Resume editing;
- Public universities;
- Chocolate;
- McDonald’s;
- Career development websites;
- At-home coffee brews.
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2 and 3 give me hope that sports TV, my husband’s profession, will continue to do well.
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Gardening is a great activity. Quite relaxing. We planted a few cornstalks in our backyard. The kids and I eagerly peeled back the husks but alas row after row of corn kernels had become the meal of a big fat green worm. But the girls were elated at this “new pet”!
I think 2nd hand or consignment resale clothing shops will do well too. We used to live near a place called Recycled Sports. Weights, treadmills, skis.. it was all there. Along with some fabulous mountain bikes for less than $40.
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Not that I don’t want everyone else to do well. Sorry. That did sound a little selfish.
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2. Since I am unlikely to find a job this fall when the kid starts to school full time, I’m going to try my hand at learning to refinish used furniture. I have some around the house that I can practice on.
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Our newspaper’s ‘green’ blogger says they’re called “Recession” Gardens. And it’s all giving a boost to garden supply shops, too:
http://www.insidesocal.com/green/2009/03/digging-a-recession-garden.html
KBells — refinishing furniture sounds like a great idea, I think there’s probably some promise there if you have some room in your garage to take in a few pieces for other people. Or maybe buying beat-up pieces and refinishing them for a garage sale.
We’re all brainstorming, I think, trying to figure out how to spend less and make more. I was talking to someone at the dog park yesterday about it all and we both agreed that this economic downturn has been personally good for us in many ways.
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Any pesticide recommendations for this years attempt at corn and tomatoes? I’d rather we have no more “caterpillar pets” in the corn patch this year!
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The only thing publishing houses are buying right now are romances–proving point #3.
Unless you’re a big name, then they’ll consider your work . . .
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I want to know why number 7 isn’t number 1!
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7. I tried. But the sci-fi writer in me took over; thus the “too unique for our needs” rejection.
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I know, Kbells. I got dared to write a romance–so I’m trying my hand at it. We may have to subtitle it: nerds in love.
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Michelle, I’ve wondered if I should try to savage it by either taking the sci-fi plot farther or putting the romance in a more mundane setting. It got as far as a senior editor. I guess I have my answer.
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Rental trailer companies are probably doing well as Michigan continues to hemmorhage residents.
And lotsa Californians are moving east to escape the trainwreck the Assembly and the Governator have made of Calif.
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Ladies, if you write romance novels, please avoid putting in a disgruntled missionary child. My wife says she cannot figure out why every Christian romance novel she reads now has a set of parents who become missionaries and at least one of the children feels deprived and mistreated.
I didn’t realize that you could be paid for editing resumes. I just helped a young lady revise hers. I did it for free because she is a member of my church. I guess I should have charged her, but if she needs a job, why should she have to pay for a little help with her resume?
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Three seed companies in Maine just reported double-digit sales increases for the first quarter of 2009. I think it was reported in yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, but it might have been in the weekend paper. We may try to contribute to their bottom line later this spring.
Kbells, you did mean “salvage” it, didn’t you?
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I hear you, Kyle, and I understand. Mine features a guitarist and a mechanical engineer.
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Seems to me, the biggest winner in any crisis is that we get a much, much, bigger socialist government who; steal too much, spend too much, borrow too much and reform too much claiming the world is ending and totally broken every day which requires even more extremely insane whack jobs to fix things they broke.
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“The only thing publishing houses are buying right now are romances–proving point #3.”
And number 4.
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Re: #4 – “If people don’t have the money to go out to a fancy dinner or are looking to cut back, Trojan gives them some real affordable ways to stay in and make some great memories together”
Can I get an “Amen” on that one, people?!
Sure beats working on your resume while eating Walmart chocolate…
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#18 You might have a pregnancy upsurge during a blackout. But during a colossal economic crisis? Seems oddly unlikely
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“Kbells, you did mean “salvage” it, didn’t you?”
That might be another reason the book was turned down. I can’t spell.
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#20, I thought the hyper-caffeinated cat might have been on the keyboard again.
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With elderly folks having to forego home heating oil in the snow belt states, I’m thinking the Snuggie blanket company must be a good investment. Who would ever have thought to market bath robes you wear backwards!?
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Sawgunner, in our limited experience, we have just taken the fat green worm off and eaten the rest. But I have never known the fat green worms to eat the whole ear. Perhaps there was another problem as well?
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BTW if you are going to write a romance novel, name the hero after your husband until the final draft just in case you talk about it in your sleep.
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