Beginning

Hi everybody! You might know me as Rebekah from Daddy's Girl, or maybe you just sort of stumbled upon me. Either way, I welcome you to My Candy Vending Venture blog.

For my first post, I'll give a little bit of introduction as to how I came to invest in candy vending machines. It started as part of a finances class in school, in which I read several books, including a few by Richard T. Kiyosaki. I began to get interested in the idea of someday being financially free. I also realized that I wanted to actually earn some money, even though I am still a student living at home, and I didn't really want a normal job, nor did I have time for a normal job. So I started looking into little side businesses, and stumbled upon vending machines.

After all, why not? It seems like nobody can refuse a nice little handful of candy for a quarter. They might not want to buy a whole bag of M&M's, but they can spend a quarter for a handful. Kids love it, adults love it, dentists...O.K., maybe dentists don't really care for it, except that it gives them more business. But parents like to have their kids happy and quiet, and a lot of adults have a sweet tooth, so vending is really rather popular. Even when times are hard, a little candy, for just a quarter, can make a bad day a little nicer.

In the next few posts I'll talk about the research I did to decide what machines I wanted and what to pay for them. I'm currently working on placing them, but I think that should be taken care of soon. So, the purpose of this blog is to, well, sort of document the process of finding the machines, filling them, getting backers, and placing them. Once we're pretty much finished with this process, we'll continue discussing the places, the problems, and the profits...and other stuff that doesn't start with P (I love alliteration!).

Well, that's all for this post. Visit the U-Turn website for more information on some great vending machines. The two that I currently have are the simple 4-selection U-Turns, which you can see here.