Hi Everyone,
I can’t be the only person who sees things on TV commercials or in stores that makes me think Invention? Really? There are countless products out there that are not inventions, but innovations. This is what I mean.
When I was living in Europe and had a cell phone, on which I could SMS, aka text, years before we here in North America could because our cell phones then were, according to one of my cousins, primitive, I used my cell phone for everything. That cell phone was really a smart phone that we are accustomed to now. And one of the things that I noticed was that there are now cell/smart phones with flashlights. I used my cell phone as a flashlight all the time in Europe. In fact, one of my female cousins fixed her car by using her cell phone as a (flash) light. So, in my opinion, a flashlight on a cell phone is not an invention but an innovation. There is one example, here is another.
At the beginning of this year, as I was taking out my recycling, I noticed that I was recycling a lot of toilet paper rolls. Then I thought, that’s a lot of money! Drinking 8 glasses of water and all of that peeing was getting expensive. So then, I remembered when I was at someone’s house, and they had a septic tank. They had a sign in their bathroom requesting that anyone using the bathroom for not peeing, please use baby wipes to clean their bottoms. The reason for this is because one baby wipe usually gets the job done, thereby not clogging their toilet or septic tank.
Did I rush out and buy baby wipes? Ahh, no. You see, when I was a temp, one place that I worked at gave us free stuff. And yes, free is my favourite word. ;D One of the free things they gave us, were facial cleansing wipes, (?) I think that is what they are called. Anyway, instead of buying baby wipes, I used all the facial cleansing wipes for my butt because there was no way on earth I was going to use those or any facial cleansing wipe for my face! My butt, yes, face no! So the bottom wipes that are now being advertised are, in my opinion, not an invention but an innovation.
People who have septic tanks and their guests, have been wiping their butts with baby wipes for years! Now that I have finally run out of facial cleansing wipes, I am now using baby wipes and any brand name will do. Both are quite effective and have saved me a tone of money. Just saying! ;D
So if you do something, that saves you time and money, makes your life easier, or is just something that you come up with, believe in it and start to figure out a way to market it. If you don’t someone else will and you’ll lose out on a tone of money. I almost freaked when I first heard of flashlights on cell/smart phones and saw the butt wipe commercial.
Thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
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