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• 1. Alica  |  October 13th, 2006 at 1:33 am

  Hi Ina, pls include me in the drawing for Miller et Bertaux. Thanks

• 2. Elle  |  October 13th, 2006 at 7:04 am

  LOL! I eagerly look forward to legal ideas. I’m sadly realizing I made terrible errors in my past - marrying a man for love, not money, making interesting, but not financially lucrative career choices (stemming from the fatal error of getting degrees in things like literature instead of an MBA) and not playing the lottery w/ enough frequency. Well, true confession time - I’ve never played the lottery. Short of gettting a rich sugar daddy, which might put a slight strain on my marriage, I’m at a loss. Sell the house and live under a bridge? But extreme temperatures are bad for perfumes and that might hurt my collection. Try to find a long lost, billionaire relative? Seriously, my fall lemming list is tragically out of sync w/ my budget. Back to waiting for brilliant suggestions from your readers.

• 3. annE  |  October 13th, 2006 at 7:44 am

  Food for thought…..well, of course all of my thinking seems to revolve around food and/or perfume.
  So here we go:
  How about if, instead of going out to eat or getting take-out, you put aside the money you *would* have spent, and forage in the cupboards, fridge, & freezer for a makeshift dinner instead. Then, you can take that money and spend it on perfume!

  Yes, folks, this is from someone who has experience in rationalizing addictive behavior.

• 4. Marina  |  October 13th, 2006 at 7:57 am

  I don’t think anything less drastic than bank robbery or drug trafficking could possibly help us. We need drastic measures, my dear. If you don’t like the idea of traficking drugs, how about antiques? Perfumes to perfume-less parts of Canada? I am sure we can come up with some effective and glamorous way to get rich if we think hard. Something a la Ocean’s 12.

• 5. Allison in MA  |  October 13th, 2006 at 8:34 am

  Hello,

  I would love to be in your drawing for the Miller et Bertaux!

  I wish I knew how to increase my own perfume funding, but alas, my skills don’t fall into the high salary range! And crime is a lot more work than people realize!

• 6. greeneyes  |  October 13th, 2006 at 8:47 am

  I live in Atlanta, so I was considering taking up painting the likenesses of NASCAR drivers on velvet and selling them at gas stations all over the deep South. I mean, I don’t know how to do portrait painting, and I don’t know who the drivers are or what they look like, but I think I can fake it. It’s either that, or dogs playing pool.

  And if the painting business tanks, then I’ll second Marina’s idea for some sort of Ocean’s 12 thing, especially if we can get Clooney, Damon, and Pitt. And the guy who played Basher. And Edward Norton. I know he wasn’t in the movie, but…

  Please include me in the drawing, and have a lovely weekend!

• 7. Elle  |  October 13th, 2006 at 9:11 am

  Marina, drastic measures are indeed needed. And glamorous would be nice. I’ve exhausted all sensible options. Something along the lines of Ocean’s 12 would indeed be fab. Swallowing bags of drugs just lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. And I’m terribly afraid that prisons might have some sort of spartan limit - like 50 bottles or so - of perfumes they allow in your cell at any one time.
  Greeneyes, NASCAR drivers on velvet! Slaps forehead! How did I not think of that before, having lived in NC for many years?? Wanders off to investigate sites that might have blank velvet canvases….

• 8. Kelley  |  October 13th, 2006 at 9:18 am

  Believe me, portrait painting is for the birds! Rich people don’t see themselves like everyone else. I was often bringing out the source photos to prove they have gray hair!

  I think maybe start a sample program on your blog and make some money that way.

  Or, how about starting up a personal shopper program where you match a fragrance to a client for a fee? You know, interview them and make suggestions of what you think they might like for a flat fee or include samples for more. it might be fun to come up with interview questions.

  How about puting your reviews in a newletter that you charge for or maybe compile all of them and sell them as a book? Maybe join Marina and other bloggers and make a great book filled with reviews! Maybe what you could do is compile the reviews on a website and charge to read them (to be a member) like a porn site!

  Not sure if any of these ideas will work. I feel for you. I shop for fraqrance every day and have come to accept the fact that I won’t ever be rich if I don’t stop. I will smell great though!

• 9. jill  |  October 13th, 2006 at 9:31 am

  This will undoubtedly be the least creative and glamorous solution, but I’m a double Capricorn, so I’m currently working extra hours at my job to save up for a few things.

  Also, I recently made an amazing find at a local grocery store, several bottles of a coveted and discontinued OPI np which I’lll be ebaying soon.

  Crazy, I know. …!

  I’d love to be entered in the sample drawing please

• 10. houseofstone  |  October 13th, 2006 at 9:54 am

  please enter me in the drawing! i suggest that you sell your local paper or tv network on the local spin off of the chandler burr column. hell, if the new york times can do it, why not the news media where you live? not that journalism is a big bucks enterprise. other than that, maybe make friends with the local owner of a fragrance shop and find out what he/she really loves, then barter! caron for cookies? hermes for hand-sewn clothes? Well, it all depends on your skill set, I suppose.

• 11. IrisLA  |  October 13th, 2006 at 10:02 am

  Borrowing the Map to the Stars’ Homes business model, I can hawk fragrance maps to clueless perfume shoppers. It’s a local tour of the highlights of fragrance: LuckyScent, Barneys, Nordstrom Perfumery, BeautyHabit, etc. Tourists will flock to buy my guides. Sigh — AS IF!

  Please enter me in the drawing.

• 12. Teri  |  October 13th, 2006 at 10:28 am

  What about a real estate venture? I could plow under the back forty and grow some pricey raw ingredient such as jasmine. Who cares that it doesn’t grow well in the mountains! Fiddle dee dee (said in my very best Scarlett O’Hara voice), I’ll think about that tomorrow.

  When I harvest my ‘crop’, I’ll barter it to some of my favorite ‘fume houses in return for cases of the finished product.

  That idea and $3.50 will buy me a latte at Starbucks….and hey! that smells pretty good, too! lol

• 13. violetnoir  |  October 13th, 2006 at 11:03 am

  How about bartering?

  I bake the best cookies this side of the Mississippi. My plan would be to take these home-baked goodies over to say the fragrance counter at Barneys on a regular basis. After a while, the SAs will be so grateful and fully expectant to receive more treats, that they will feel obligated to give me free bottles of fragrance. Right???

  Somehow, I don’t think my plan is a recipe for success, pardon the pun.

  Please enter me in the drawing, darling, and have a great weekend!

  Hugs!

• 14. Monica  |  October 13th, 2006 at 11:06 am

  Hi Ina,
  Personally I start to sell off parts of my collection to fund my current addictions =) speaking of which… that new Miller et Bertaux is on the top of my list!

  -Monica

• 15. Martika  |  October 13th, 2006 at 11:52 am

  Please include me in the draw, I would love to sample Miller et Bertaux’s newest scent!

• 16. Martika  |  October 13th, 2006 at 11:54 am

  Gosh, I was so excited reading about this M&B giveaway that I completely forgot to answer to the question. I wish I knew how, if I did, I wouldn’t be there (=MUA) swapping and begging for samples and decants, lol

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• 18. Wendy  |  October 13th, 2006 at 4:20 pm

  By selling my full-sized perfumes that I have accumulated over the years (on E-Bay) . I felt that I needed larger size bottles to fully experience the fragrances (trial sizes NEVER entered my mind). Hence, I have amassed quite the collection of unused fragrances. E-Bay can help me continue my addiction.

• 19. Mary M  |  October 14th, 2006 at 7:52 pm

  I just discovered your blog. Very nice!

  My BF is a former packrat. We had a few big rummage sales and I used my share of the profits to buy perfume.

  I love powdery perfumes. You should do an article about the best powdery perfumes.

  Thanks!

• 20. Amy K  |  October 15th, 2006 at 12:25 am

  My best friend and I used to collect My Little Pony toys in the 80s. I bet if we rounded up all 600 or so from our parents’ basements, we could make a pretty penny on eBay.

  I’d love to be included in the drawing - it’s one of my biggest sample lemmings!

• 21. Flora  |  October 15th, 2006 at 12:34 am

  Well, there is always gambling….I am a pretty good horseplayer, but only in the abstract - I don’t bet real money, I just like to handicap races for my own amusement. I have friends who play poker for real money, but it’s not the big bucks, and I am terrible at cards and all other forms of gambling. What does that leave? Just like Elle above, I made all those “bad” choices early - the artsy education, the lack of ruthlessness in business, no sugar daddy, etc. If only I had no moral compass, sigh….

  I do have one brilliant business idea, though - I would like to be the owner of a really swank old-school nightclub, the best in town, with only the finest in entertainment, food & drink - with one difference. No smoking! And I would encourage everyone to wear plenty of their finest perfume, in defiance of all the fragrance-free restrictions going around these days. I, of course, would lead the way, being the gracious hostess dressed in elegant gowns and opera gloves, with clouds of Carnal Flower or A La Nuit drifting around me, channeling Ava Gardner….a girl has to dream, no?

• 22. emotenote  |  October 15th, 2006 at 9:25 pm

  Speaking of selling velvel portraits, I was recently at a county fair in Georgia and I have never seen a worst collection of arts and craft that were selling like grits’n corn. If we could swallow our pride and put any vestige of good taste out of our minds for a few days, I’ll b we could come up with some real good merchandise for these markets.

• 23. Ina  |  October 15th, 2006 at 9:43 pm

  Thanks, everybody, for your ideas! Totally cracked me up!! Just brilliant. Doing the tours and personal shopper option have already crossed my mind more than once. Ebay is definitely a life saver currently, both for buying/selling. But, man, I’ve thoroughly underestimated the benefits of gambling! Thanks, all! It’s been a hoot.

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