I MAKE Handbags. My Friends Make Artwork & Handcrafts To Sell To Wealthy People

[KittyWampus]

Maybe instead of griping about how much money X spends on Y people should start thinking outside the box about ways to do something creative or useful to make some extra money.

Here are two examples from Etsy (not mine but great examples of using recycled fabric to make art to wear):

The Katwise Sweater Coat below made from upcycled sweaters sells for $600 and the handbag is $200.


http://www.etsy.com/listing/150870263/fun-string-colorful-geniune-leather-hobo?ref=sr_gallery_25&ga_search_query=handbag&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_explicit_scope=1&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=handmade



http://www.etsy.com/listing/74383652/recycled-sweater-by-katwise-extra-long?ref=shop_home_active

[LiberalLoner]

1. Those are beautiful creations, and I am sure your work is exquisite as well.

For me, as I see wealth concentrated in fewer and fewer hands (400 families I think have a very large share of the wealth?) I see in my mind millions of us showing our skills and our wares to those very few extremely rich people.

And I see the very few rich saying, "you may live to eat today, if you give me your kidney..."
And one lucky person in a million selling a handbag. All of us desperate to sell to fewer and fewer wealthy, as the middle class disappears and only the obscenely rich and starving poor remain.

It reminds me of The Good Earth...when wealth is piled up in too few hands, sometimes change comes suddenly.

I think of the desperate poor in Egypt, trying to sell small trinkets to we rich tourists. A lucky one or two of the hundred or so sell and can eat that day. The rest go hungry because when there are too many sellers and too few buyers, that is what happens.

You might as well advise people to stop complaining and instead buy a lottery ticket.

[Bonobo]

2. Oh yes, for sure.

Poor people should not complain about the imbalance of wealth and should focus on learning how to recycle junk that will be of sufficient interest to the wealthy to try to earn some of their not hard-earned money.

[KittyWampus]

6. "Poor" people? Anyone interested in a civil society is interesting in redistributing wealth.

Figures you would miss the point.

[Bonobo]

7. I'm afraid a few people making art out of bottlecaps just won't cut it.

Though I am sure you will argue that those represent "incremental progress" or something.

[Recursion]

3. Etsy is awesome. I sell kites on there sometimes

Cool bags.

[Cleita]

4. Do you charge thousands of dollars for those? n/t

[KittyWampus]

5. No, I'm not good enough. Edit- but I have sold some of my creations over the years

and made some decent money.

[Cleita]

8. You probably are good enough but don't have the name.

See the difference?

[Taitertots]

9. Good for them... Unproductive and practically useless advice in the wider economic context

Do you think their business could withstand everyone on DU competing with them?

What you are basically saying is: We should stop criticizing the biggest flaws in our economic system because you are benefiting from them.

[duffyduff]

14. Exactly. I expect somebody who makes yachts to come on here and talk about their jobs. n/t

[hfojvt]

16. well I almost took a job

at the Winnebago plant in Forest City, Iowa but the commute was too far.

[Generic Other]

10. Stupendous examples!

I just started selling on Etsy. And I am also asking high prices. It is called capitalism and even liberals are entitled to try and get rich, right? Of course, I also barter and give stuff away when I feel like it.

Here's my shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LarkworthyAntfarm

[SoCalDem]

11. I buy recycled animal food bags that are crafted into shopping bags..kitschy, cute & useful

People compliment me on my shopping bags :

kind of like this one

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OivBEj5_8jI/Twe7qe27b4I/AAAAAAAAVCY/_OkrbvgX33g/s1600/feed+bag+tote.JPG

[bluestate10]

12. It is easier for some to complain about the rich than to come up with ways to change society, even

in small ways. I is too easy to complain about what one doesn't have and what some people have than it is to create opportunity for oneself and others while preserving one's values.

[duffyduff]

13. The fact is these parasites mostly have gotten rich off of US thanks to

Washington policies that heavily favor them at the rest of our's expense.

We need to quit making excuses for this outrageous income inequality.

And STOP making excuses for Oprah Winfrey. She has nothing in common with the rest of us.

The OP is insulting in so many ways, I can't even begin to count.

By the way, "wealthy" ISN'T rich, let alone billionaire rich.

The term "wealthy" sugarcoats what these parasites really are.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. beautiful. tnanks for sharing

[TreasonousBastard]

17. I can't bellieve people are beating up on you because...

you're not out there destroying the oligarchy and transferring billions all by your lil ol' self.

For one thing, many fortunes started with small ventures like these, although if you ever do get rich you can count on some of them to jump all over you as the 1%. No, you can't win with some people.

Small business is part of the soul of a free people. Vision, hard work, talent... All that stuff goes into a successful business and you may or may not make a good living off of it, but we're all better off because people like you make the leap.

Good luck to you.

[Notafraidtoo]

18. I don't have a problem with rich people spending money.

I wish they would spend more, in fact them not spending enough is the problem its why we had 70%-90% taxes on them at one point,they just don't spend enough so the wealth concentrates and society collapses.