The Million Euro Get Rich Quick Scheme

We finally found it! How can you get rich quick? Read on and you will find out.

This story started a few years ago when we moved to Everett, WA and a girlfriend of mine came out so spend a few days and help me decorate.

Both Johnnie and I are totally worthless when it comes to home decor; it's just not our thing. So we need all the help we can get.

So my girlfriend was suggesting I take some of the shells and polished rocks and beach glass and display them on pretty plates on the coffee table. Scatter a little sand, and, voila! you have a nice coffee table conversation piece (after all what else do you do with the flotsam you collect while roaming the world?!)

Johnnie laughed and gave my girlfriend a hard time about decorating our house with rocks. He offered to go into the garden and get her all the rocks she wants to decorate the whole house with rocks.

Well, this is for you Charna! I know you are smiling now when you see what has happened with your idea.

Selling bags of rocks at Ikea, Napoli

Shelves full of rocks in pretty containers

 So now, guess what? I am not going to bother painting rocks like we did in the 70's. Or putting them in little boxes or naming them. Remember that? Pet Rocks? No, no, why bother?

Now I will just collect rocks to sell, plain old ordinary rocks. And I will market them as "Rocks from Italy". What do you think of that? Now I can retire early in style and own my apartment on the Amalfi coast as a business write off so I can go and replenish my collection of rocks!


Remember the movie The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez? Well if you haven't seen it I won't spoil the movie for you except to say, I am going to be like Lucy with my rocks!

The Long, Long Trailer (1953)