Coax Children To Play With Mud And Earn 600 Thousand

The mud everywhere in the village can sell money, and the price is not bad. It can be sold for tens of dollars by a big palm. Maybe this is something nobody will believe.

However, this is Wei Xiaoyu, who has done it.

Wei Xiaoyu was originally an ordinary housekeeper working in Chongqing. However, with keen insight, she saw the opportunity for children to play with mud. After three years, she earned 600 thousand yuan by selling mud.

Wei Xiaoyu, 35 years old, was born in an ordinary farm in southern Sichuan province.

When she was a child, because her family was poor, the best tool for her to amuse herself was mud, making a small house with mud, kneading villains, and modeling puppies. Wei Xiaoyu did it perfectly.

A little larger, she had a strong interest in paper cutting and painting. Her paintings and paper-cut participated in the exhibition of Fine Arts in primary and secondary schools many times in the county.

People say that Wei Xiaoyu has great talent in art.

Unfortunately, because of family difficulties, she dropped out of school when she was in high school.

In 1993, Wei Xiaoyu married Jiang Liqiang, a young man in the same village. He gave birth to his son the next year.

When her son was a little older, she went to Chongqing with her husband to work. Her husband worked as a building Mason.

The employer is a double worker with a baby daughter Zhang Wei, who is only 4 years old.

Zhang Wei was very spoiled from childhood, crying and making fun of himself.

In order to coax up little Zhang Wei, Wei Xiaoyu almost did all the answers, but the child still cried often.

In the morning of the end of October 2000, Mr. Zhang and his wife went to work. Wei Xiaoyu took advantage of little Zhang Wei's sleep and went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.

But when she bought the dish, she was stunned: Zhang Wei turned over a flower pot on the balcony, shattered the flowerpots, and scattered the soil on the floor. Little Zhang Wei was playing with the dirt on the floor, and her hands were all covered with mud.

Wei Xiaoyu hurried forward to stop, but Xiao Zhang Wei cried and shouted that he must play.

No way, she had to bring a basin, water and mud, teach little Zhang Weinie clay figurine.

Xiao Zhang had a good time.

Zhang Wei's mother saw Wei Xiaoyu was teaching her child to play with mud, and was angry. He gave Wei Xiaoyu a hard lecture, and ordered her to throw away the soil.

But Xiao Zhang wept and cried.

Wei Xiaoyu had to leave some soil secretly, and agreed with Xiao Zhang Wei. In the future, he could only play secretly while his parents were away.

For the next week or so, Wei Xiaoyu accompanied Xiao Zhang Wei to play with mud and taught her to make various forms of plants and animals with mud.

Strange to say, as long as the hands are stained with mud, little Chang Wei Tong, who is usually unable to sit still, is quiet.

Soon after he was in the kindergarten, Xiao Zhang Wei went to school with his little clay figurine.

One day, when Wei Xiaoyu went to the kindergarten to pick up Xiao Zhang Wei, he was surrounded by several children from Xiao Zhang Wei's class. They begged Wei Xiaoyu to make a small clay figurine for them, and several children also took out the money.

Wei Xiaoyu's heart is moving. Yes, children like small clay figurine. Why don't I sell it as a clay figurine?

She decided to try.

It's really hard for him to give up her point of "mud" into gold and Chongqing in the downtown area.

She thought of her husband who was building a building. There must be mud on the construction site.

The husband sent half a bag of clay in plastic bags, while the family members went to work. Wei Xiaoyu added the soil to water and mud, and made many shapes, such as human, cat, dog and so on.

On the second day, when she took the chance of little Zhang Wei, she sold the clay figurine clay dog to the front door of the kindergarten, and sold 13 at once.

Wei Xiaoyu was so happy, but not a few days ago he did not have a friend to buy it.

Where is the problem?

The children talked in a big way: mud does not have other toys to play, other toys can move, mud will not move, mud will crack when it is dry, and it will not look good.

Wei Xiaoyu was disappointed.

For the next more than 10 days, she never made clay figurine again.

But when Zhang Weiyi was free, she pestered her and taught her to be a little clay figurine. Wei Xiaoyu's heart could not help but move. Why did the other kids get tired of playing for two days a day, while Xiao Zhang played more than 10 days with great interest?

There is only one reason: other children play with clay figurines, while Zhang Wei is making clay figurine himself.

Self made clay figurine is a creation. Little Zhang Wei can find pleasure in the process of creation.

Wei Xiaoyu only felt that her eyes were clear: she wanted to open a shop similar to "Tao Ba", but her shop was for children to play with mud.

Wei Xiaoyu told her husband about this idea. He was shocked and strongly opposed that he had never heard of "playing mud" before making money.

But Wei Xiaoyu's impulse to open his own shop is bigger and bigger. He resolutely resigned to Zhangjia, then took the savings of these years, and hired a small shop in Wanzhou District, Bai Yuan Road, with a monthly rent of 1000 yuan.

There are two schools near Bai Yan Road, and her shop is for students.

Wei Xiaoyu let her husband from the construction site pported a car of soil as raw material, the store for a simple decoration.

In January 2002, the shop called mud Art Fun opened.

But a month later, deducting rent and other expenses, Wei Xiaoyu not only did not earn money, but lost nearly 400 yuan.

The husband told her to stop in time. She refused. She firmly believed that business would be better.

She said, "I firmly believe that in Chongqing, I can make money from these mud.

What we need to consider now is not to close the door, but to investigate the needs of the market and improve our way of doing business.

As long as we do not give up, one day these mud will turn into gold! "

When the clouds began to rise, she earned 600 thousand yuan by selling mud. Wei Xiaoyu began to investigate every kid who came to her store and went to visit nearby schools.

Children reflect the most two problems: first, the color is monotonous, and two is made of mud, which is easy to crack and break after drying.

Among them, a middle school student put forward a suggestion: "we usually have to go to class, and when we have time to go to your store, you might as well sell mud and let us go home ourselves."

She thought that ordinary mud would not sell well, nor could it be competitive.

To sell, we need to sell various colors of mud to meet the children's visual needs, and to change the cracks that are easily cracked in mud.

Wei Xiaoyu resolutely closed the shop, and she was looking for a new way of doing business.

She found yellow, brown, gray and other different colors of clay in the construction sites and outskirts, then rolled them up, blended them and mixed them up, and made various colors of mud.

During the production process, another idea came to mind in Wei Xiaoyu's mind: if we can make these mud into pigments, can multicolour make clay paintings like cloth stickers?

She immediately found a piece of wood, and drew a sketch of the landscape with a pencil on the board, and then pasted the mud with several colors. Soon, a beautiful, three-dimensional painting was born.

However, the mud painting was cracked after only one night, and the gap was like a turtle.

Wei Xiaoyu also thought of vegetable oil. She mixed vegetable oil and added some sticky agents. After countless persevering experiments, a dry and cracked painting clay was finally born.

She added all kinds of dyes to the mud that had been used in several colors, so that the color of the mud painting became more colorful.

With the joy of success, Wei Xiaoyu made 500 kilograms of clay in one breath and painted 29 colors of red, black, snow-white, lake blue, indigo, orange, grass and green.

She packed the painted mud with different colors in a small plastic bag, and put the color name on the outside of the plastic bag, each bag one or two, priced at 1.5 yuan.

After two months of deliberation and preparation, Wei Xiaoyu's shop, which had been closed for more than two months in May 2002, was reopened. She changed her shop name to "clay painting gallery".

The opening of the painted clay Gallery immediately attracted a large number of primary and middle school students, who could paint or paint. They all liked to go to Wei Xiaoyu's shop to buy some bags of painted mud to satisfy their desire to create.

For a while, the business in the store was very hot. Less than half a month, the 500 kilograms of mud were sold out.

After the first month, Wei Xiaoyu made a detailed account of the rent, and removed the cost of rent, cost and so on. The painting gallery made a net profit of 11000 yuan.

This amount was a year and a half income from Wei Xiaoyu when she was a babysitter. She was greatly encouraged and more energetic.

Since then, she has made many attempts, from the development of anti extrusion and anti deformation to painting frame. By May 2003, the painted clay Gallery, which has been in operation for a year, has obtained a net profit of 150 thousand yuan.

But Wei Xiaoyu is not a person who is content with the status quo. At this time, her ambition is bigger. She wants to widen the market and enlarge her business.

She can't just be satisfied with letting the painting gallery face students' fixed population. She wants to widen her target of service to people of all ages.

An accidental reason made her look at the newly decorated house.

She found that more and more people were newly decorated. She wanted to satisfy everyone's desire to be a painter: a brand-new house was decorated, and the most striking masterpiece in it was a picture made of mud and graceful charm. The author of this painting is not another person, but the owner of the house.

Now, because of the bustling business, Wei Xiaoyu has hired three art talents to draft the manuscript for his customers, and four staff members have taken care of the sales business.

Wei Xiaoyu said that by selling mud and picture frames, she is considering opening two branches to further expand her business.

She also said that through her own experience, it can be seen that success is not difficult. As long as we are willing to move forward and dare to persist, everyone has the opportunity to become rich and become a boss.