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Deluxe Port-a-potties

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So as I was driving down the street yesterday, I saw a truck carrying what it called "Deluxe Port-a-potties." It looked like it was double or triple the size of a regular portable potty, and very white. I could only imagine what the inside could look like. It advertised that it was available for weddings, events, etc. I think this is a great product for an untapped market. Say you are having an upscale family reunion in your very large back yard and you don't want everyone traipsing through your house to go, but don't want them to have to suffer using an outhouse, you rent one of those and everybody is happy. Maybe they looked like these: When I told Tom about it, he asked what the name of the company was. I said I thought it was called, "Deluxe Port-a-Potties". He said that wasn't good enough, so we started brainstorming and came up with a few name possibilities, like Outstanding Outhouses, Joyful Johns, Thrilling Thrones, Pretty Potties, etc. But then ...

Our new room

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Tom and I decided to create a new room for ourselves in our attached garage - what used to be the Game Room. It used to have the pool table, a dart board, and a sofa and a TV. It was also where I've always parked my cute little Miata. So Tom (with some help from Marc) put up a couple of walls. Wow. What a flattering picture. The bed is actually already there, which you can see through the see-through wall because Trina and I decided it would be a lot easier to put the bed in there before the wall stopped being see-through. We were right. Then he put in a closet. The hardest part was moving all our STUFF out to the room. Tanya, and Trina helped us make many trips filling the little red wagon and carring the big stuff. It took hours, but now we are all settled. We think its a pretty cool room! There is actually a lot more space than this picture shows. We have both our desks out here, but they are too messy for a picture, and our closet is almost as big as we had before. The best pa...