Movin' on!

Several weeks ago I suggested it was time to move on.  I did.  I

I have been rather lax in my attention to the dinar lately for a very interesting reason: a study of what to invest in that would give me instant gratification and build self confidence once again.  After weeks of pondering the problem and basically months of searching I found a niche to explore.

The old mall was more or less destroyed when Fred Meyer showed up in town - many years ago.  The old mall was THE place to be prior to that.  If an organization was anything it did something at the mall.  Christmas-Santa; Easter - Bunny time; Memorial Day - BBQ; etc.  People went to the mall. 

After Freddy showed up - the mall went into a spiral down, down , down until just recently the mall was sold to someone who had a plan - TO MAKE IT THE PLACE ONCE AGAIN.  The wiring was a mess - he is an electrician who owns a large electrical contracting company.  The mall needs renocations -his son in law and son own a major construction company.  The mall needs people - they have a plan to restore the masses to the hall ways.  In just one month the new owner has completely re-lit the mall with LED lighting, punched outside doors into all stores (it is a concrete building so that was a major thing); taken out the old "sidewalks of New York" atmosphere - replaced it with  a more open and flowing atmosphere; brought in a Boutique; allowed several present businesses to relocate within the mall; cleaned up the place - inside and out; and brought the Easter Bunny and egg hunt back.  Positive things!!!

That got me to thinking and conspiring with the barber and a Hallmark store owner.  What would it take to get some more people walking around?  A national company?  There are already 2 in the mall.  Something new - but what?

I miss the small vendors that sorta hang around the edges of the "stores."  SOOOOO, I explored the feasibility of a kisok that dispenses popcorn, hotdogs/brats/footlongs, nachos, pretzels, coca-cola, and coffee.  I found that to set up such a "booth" permanently in the mall would take approximately $8,000 to get started counting the first months mall rent.   All one needs is a couple of part time employees to "spell" the operator and help out during rush times.  Answer: High School girls (under supervision) and one part time adult.  None of the employees would work more than 20 hours a week and the consumables are readily available locally - some of them less than 300 feet away.

Movin' on, yep beats the dinar because there is a "play and trade" game store in the mall for the teenagers and a Sprotsman's Warehouse right next door.  What does that have to do with it?  Just pop a popper of popcorn, send someone down the way with a hot dog in their hand and let someone else observe nachos being consumed and find out!  Movin' on - not so bad after all AND THERE IS ALWAYS A HOT DOG, COKE, AND NACHO WAITING!!!  Life is good.

Wow That is very encouraging. Glad to hear of your new business and blessing on you and the business.

Congrats on your new business and that's wonderful news about your Kiosk. Something I wanted to do many years ago, but never got it off the ground. Stayed in my head. LOL

I have been busy myself lately with new career endeavours and haven't been around as much. As spring and summer starts I tend to be busy outside as well.

Keep us posted on your popcorn, and look into the use coconut oil as a topping, if you can!!!!. I bet you have a big seller on your hands!!!

 :spring1:

Peanuts, Popcorn, Hot dogs, .....add an occasional "guru clown" as sideshow and you are back in the center ring.

Ah, hey wealthy already:  I am  not now nor have I ever been in the cenbter ring.  That is reserved for gurus.

 I do however remember what was good about going to the carnival or fair.  The hot dog stand idea has been an after thought of mine when dealing with the mall.  I personally had no intention of doing something like this until one day I was sitting on the group w bench at the mall and the subject of dinar gurus came up.  I started in my routine of a circus barker and it struck me that there was money to be made out of selling those very same products right there in the mall.  As a test I asked a friend to speak to one of the corner vendors that are found in the summer  at various points around and he stated that it would be profitable to persue a venture of that kind.


Sooooo, I am persuing said venture.  It appears to be more profitable and more immediately gratifying than the dinar has been.  i HAVE MOVED ON, when are others going to follow thier dreams too?

Make fun of me all you want - I will be laughing all the way to the bank.  Cheers!

Best of luck in your new business.  Have you given any thought to product names?  Instead of  just calling it a hotdog, popcorn, etc., how about a guru/circus theme?  For instance:  Bulldog Dog, Tony Smoothie, Natcho Okie.  Not the most clever names, but you get the idea.

Interesting idea!  BUT, the idea of this venture was to MOVE ON from the dinar. 

I thought of calling the hot dogs sled dogs, the popcorn movie bait, the snow cones termination dust etc.  However, I just decided to name the whole thing:  Mall Munchies.

I know, not too imaginative, but hey this is Alaska and we don't get too excited about too much too often.  Must be all those long dark winter days and summers of mid night suns. 

I have to admit that I did at one time have the thought of selling ice cubes to eskimos, however that idea had already been taken years ago.  Another thought was to open a fly shop for the salmon fishermen, but then I went to the hardware store and low and behold - I was aced out once again.  The munchies thing just seemed a fit.  Besides I can eat what I don't sell.  Pass the mustard, please!

MALL MUNCHIES !! !  GREAT NAME !  I can see the franchise now  - in EVERY MALL !!

Mall Munchies!!! Great name.  :spring1: 

Ponee, just looking at stepping back into the Corporate world again, only part time so I can have a work/life balance and then of course my new adventure as a "writer".  We'll see where that takes me, but it is a side of my soul that has been longing to do this for a while. So it's time.

I am noticing a whole lot of people moving on lately. In the areas of dinar investment, as well as other areas of their life. Must be something in the air...!!!

I do know that after 4 yrs of watching this, as well as educating myself, I find the more I learn, the less I am inclined to feel we will make a whole lot of money on this. The amount we earn may not be the amount of time, this takes away from enjoying life.

Nope, not having a bad day. Just being realistic and I think that I need to pull away myself from all of this right now. I guess this is why March and April seemed to be turning months for me in many areas of my life.

I guess I need a whole new set of dreams and that is what I am working on now, so if you don't see me online as much, you will know why.  It's not that I have forgotten you all. I just need to follow a new path.  I will check in from time to time when I can.

   

All the best....
GG

I do understand people want to move on, but I'm not able to do so.  It has nothing to do with the RV/RI or whatever you call it.  I've already given up on that.  I'm waiting for this whole thing to implode on the roos....arrest warrants, indictments and jail time......that's what I'm waiting for.  There have been too many lives destroyed (financially, emotionally, etc.) for this to continue indefinitely.  

Best of luck to all who choose to take a break from this.  Please do check back in when you feel like it.  And Aksafeone, I hope Dinar, Inc. ( I think they are the ones who have a location in the Mall of the Americas) doesn't open a kiosk across the way.  (Said in jest, of course.  I do have a sick sense of humor, you know!)

ss; not near as sick as mine, because I DO HOPE a Dinar booth opens near me!  That way I can watch the fun stuff and sit back and say " I TOLD YOU SO!"

I have not abandoned ship, just gone ashore on leave more often.  I still "haunt" DDD, just not as much as previously.  Besides I have a smart phone and check occasionally during the day to see what bafoon is in the center ring.  OH yeah, I still am the circus barker - just got tired of doing it every day all day long -  if the roos had behaved I could have rested!!

See, there are other things that a make "life wonderful!"  I always have had a perverse sense of humor.   I figure that if one of the dealer people in the other booth want a "dog" and a nacho - come on down!  And behind door number 3 we have snow cones!  Oh, and if you try to peddle your wares while at my kiosk - turn about is fair play and the circus barker returns.  Fair is fair.

Now I can hawk my wares for real:  Hot dogs, Nachos, Lattes.  Get your Brats right here!  "The Mall Munchie - the place to be."  I am aksafeone, and I approve this message.

Are you in Fairbanks or Anchorage?