The Wife and I have a game, of sorts, where I bounce my get-rich-quick schemes off of her and she shoots them down.

Here's a sure fire money making idea that I got from The Wife.  A picky eater, she is.  She's got it in her head that the first cup or so out of a gallon of milk tastes better than the remaining milk in the gallon.  So she often opens up a fresh gallon of milk and drinks a cup or two.  Then that's it until the rest of us polish off the remainder of the gallon.  The next fresh gallon of milk surfaces and the cycle continues.  Well, how about selling pints of milk called "Top Of The Gallon", or something to that affect.  Market the pints as the freshest part of the milk as it only comes from the best part of milk:  The tops of fresh gallons of milk!  Brilliant, no?  I'm glad you agree.

Or this little gem:  My kids both swim on summer and winter community swim teams.  Early on in their swimming "careers" The Wife and I both noticed that a solid 50%-60% of the kids swimming chew on their goggle straps.  Kind of a nervous energy type of thing. 

Soooooooo, I came up with the brilliant idea of....(drumroll).....Flavored goggle straps!!  Your kids like mint?  No problem.  BBQ?  Done deal.  Cheddar cheese?  Have at it.  I mean, c'mon.  If they can impregnate liver and onion flavoring on dog bones they can adhere sour cream and onion onto goggle straps, no?  Sell'em for about a buck a strap and ka-CHING!!

Or finally:  Remember back in the day when there was a date/time phone number you could call and an electronic voice would give you the time? (Insert computer generated voice here: "At the tone, the time will be one thir-ty P-M and thir-ty sec-onds. BEEEEEP!")

OK. How about a radio station that just gives the time? Have the station calibrated to Greenwich Mean Time (whatever the heck that is). Have a computer do all the work so the station doesn't need any employees to run it. Have the computer in your basement to lower overhead costs. Have the station give the time at 30-second intervals, which gives plenty of time for 25-second commercials to be run between announcements.

Genius, right? Right??!

Well, these may not be “the ones”, but check back often for more schemes. And no stealing! Pinky shake?