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get a great gift for someone and help a family in need at the same time

momztired started this conversation

My name is Jess, I am a wife and mother of five children ages 8,7,5,3,and 10mo. My husband has a decent job, but we've come up on a rough patch. Just need a little help. I have designed a great diaper bag. which I would like to start make and selling as a home business. I know I could sell these bags for between $50 and $75 dollars at least. I have been looking into sites that i could set up a store front on but I just don't have the money to invest in all the materials to make the bags without first having orders. These bags are very practical and would make a very good and unique gift for someone else or yourself. They have a large pocket with lined with four small pockets for all of the baby things and a seperate shallow pocket for all of  the parents things. Plus pockets on the sides for cell phone, keys, and a bottle. The thing that makes this bag very unique is the detachable changeing pad with easy access pockets for diapers, wipes, diaper rash cream and hand sanitizer.

I came up with this designed after a trip to the circus with our five children where i had to lay the babies blanket down on the dirty bathroom floor to change him because there was no counter or any thing to do it on. I wish I would have thought of this with my first instead of my last.! If you are interested contact me and we can work out the dteails of colors and things like that. This would be a way to get something nice and help out a family at the same time. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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franky2002usus
Hello my Name is Francisca Goodwin.I am a single mother of 3 wonderful boys.Gettting there father to pay child support or help out hasn't been any help at all..There ages are 14,10,and 8..I am having trouble making ends meet..If it weren't for my mother I don't know how I would pay the bills.Her on disability getting a check every mouth pays our bills..After the bills are paid she has no money..I haven't been able to find a job ..I haven't been looking none stop and getting my boys something for Christmas isn't looking good because I cannot find any help here..If theres anyway you can help please contact me at 912-807-0320..My address is 972 Satilla Circle Blackshear,Ga 31516 
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Roseb441702

You see the problem with creating something and selling it is that while you may be convinced that it is a good product you have to convince others that it is a good product. You can set up a free website, a free blog and take paypal payments. You can even try selling your product on Ebay. As I do a lot of work with grants and investors and such you may be able to find funding using these methods but the important thing to remember is that you have to convince the funder that it is worth their while. There are a good number of "smaller" grants for women wanting to start their own business and you should look into those. Finding investors is more harder because you're going to have to convince them why they should invest with you.
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