The things people spend money on

What a savings

Since I see other flowers in the picture I bet they are for decorating.

Or maybe dip in a beaten egg, then bread crumbs, and fry them.

Rather expensive at $6.99 as there are cheaper things to eat especially if a person has trees in their yard.

Haha, that is awesome in its utter madness!

I recall tiny bundles of sticks at a garden centre for a very nice price. Anybody who drove there could have collected all the tiny sticks they needed for free from the roadside. It seems people cannot unplug themselves from the retail matrix.

BTW, the correct use for expensive oak leaves is to soak them in hand sanitizer and bind them to your face as you sleep, to reduce crow's feet and excess wealth. Pfft!

Very interesting. I keep reading about mulching but I couldn't for the life of me find out where to get leaves to do the mulching. This makes sense, and is a great deal as well!

Ah the convenience of city living, where you can get all the handy decorations from a tree without having the bother of actually living near anything natural! Like driving 15 minutes then taking the escalator/elevator to reach the gym, so you can walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes!

I've made a few bucks from time to time selling Black Locust bark on eBay. It makes great media for growing orchids.

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:......

BTW, the correct use for expensive oak leaves is to soak them in hand sanitizer and bind them to your face as you sleep, to reduce crow's feet and excess wealth. Pfft!

Truthfully, using oak leaves....I really didn't notice any improvement.  With box elder leaves, however, vive la différence!!.....reduced crows feet and excess girth, all without cashing out my Cayman's account!



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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” -- Sherlock Holmes.

'Mulch'...'Fritters'.....'Facials'...... we're all missing the obvious.  It's kindling to start your RMH!....

John Weiland wrote: 'Mulch'...'Fritters'.....'Facials'...... we're all missing the obvious.  It's kindling to start your RMH!....

... with a fraction of each purchase to support the Society to Promote Overalls as a Thing ...

My wife works at a craft store. All the time people come in asking if they have any sticks for sale. We live in a forest...

My oaks dropped soooo many branch tips like that this year.  I didn't know why, but now I do.....they were trying to get me to start a side hustle!

Greg Martin wrote:My oaks dropped soooo many branch tips like that this year.  I didn't know why, but now I do.....they were trying to get me to start a side hustle!

AHA! It's not just me!!!
It's not that people are stupid enough to buy leaves, okay it IS..., but that some Permie can identify and exploit a market for XYZ thing that just needs picking up and bringing to market.

I've been clearing a neglected bit of our property and taking the vines (Virginia creeper, bittersweet, porcelain berry, and Concord grape) and making them into wreaths as I pull them out of my way. They'll get sold as is, or with some other stuff like dried flowers or ribbons added...
Vines out of my way, "tangled up" into neat little circles, turned into $$$.
Residue income stream.

You know, I'm cutting trails and have massive amounts of thin, straight hazelnut sticks with nice decorative bark. Also tons of saskatoon sticks that make nice tripods or trellises. Could be an option for crafty and garden-y folks.

saw bundles of dead corn stalks out front of a store, for fall decorations.  $5.99 a bundle - sell city folks the corn at the summer farmer's market, then sell 'em the dead stalks in the fall!

Money doesn't just grow on trees- oh wait nevermind...

Apparently, I'm in the wrong business! There's a nursery in Tennessee selling "oak tree seeds" for - get this - $.39@!! Between the 29acres of leafy branches the wind blows down, and the acorns I'm constantly twisting my ankle on, I could make a mint!!

Mark Brunnr wrote:Money doesn't just grow on trees- oh wait nevermind...

Haha! 'Course, to convert leaves into money, someone has to gather the leaves, pick out only the pretty ones, put them in nice packaging, convince a retailer to give shelf/floor space, deliver or ship them, and the retailer will mark them up 300-400%. Depending on the arrangement, the wholesaler may not get paid for the ones that don't sell and end up in the trash. Doesn't sound like a big moneymaker to me.

$7.00 a bag!!!   I paid over $10.00 a bag for my leaves.  Where did you find them so cheap???

Douglas, the trick is to cut out the middleman. ……and employ a cute kid.

When I was a kid our family use to spend July 4th at the seashore. Us kids would gather seashells as part of the fun. Dad loaded the good ones into the car trunk. At home us kids went door to door selling those shells. We did a brisk business even though we lived in a low income neighborhood. By the end of a week we felt like millionaires. I remember seeing those shells being used as decoration in my friends homes. And while my friends went to the shore too, at least once during the summer, they never brought shells home.

Su Ba wrote:Douglas, the trick is to cut out the middleman. ……and employ a cute kid.

Excellent!!!

r ranson wrote:What a savings

Frankly, I had to look at it twice: A handful of leaves [ugly red oak leaves at that] for $6.00 reduced to $4.00. I figured no way, someone is taking us for a ride [definitely the one selling the leaves is, if it's true!]
I live a good 10 miles from the next sizeable town. They have maples, oak etc. and must rake and place them on the curb so the leaves do not plug the storm sewers.
Every year around this time, there are all kinds of leaves, already bagged. huge bags, the 55 gallon type! I stop by, knock on the door and ask them if I could pretty please take their leaves for my garden. No one yet has refused to let me have their leaves:
Deep at heart, people are good, decent creatures who love to do a good deed: they make my day, but I make theirs as well as they have a sense of doing their civic duty by giving me leaves that would otherwise plug the municipal dump. Knowing that their leaves will help me raise a great garden, they don't have the heart to refuse.
So far, I have about 75 bags spread out and I'm going for another 20 today. the weather is going to warm up a couple of degrees this coming weekend, so this year, I might have a great crop of mulch. I put the best leaves [beautiful sugar maple leaves] on the garden and if I see a bag that might have weeds along with the leaves, I spread that bag around my apple/ cherry trees.  Some have 25-30 bags! I have to make several trips.
It is unreal what folks will spend good money on! But will complain endlessly about taxes and the price of [fill in the blank] Whatever!

I wonder what I could get for goat poop...

Carla Burke wrote:I wonder what I could get for goat poop...

Reminded me that "moose nugget" jewelry was a big seller to the tourists where I grew up in Alaska.  Did a search and there are currently 500+ listings on Etsy for "Moose Poop Jewelry" so I guess it's still a thing.