Mom Makes Millions with Corn and Cloth
February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Kim Lavine’s story is a testament to the fact that you can turn the simplest idea into a million dollars.
Kim had her first million dollar idea on a snowy day in 2000 when she was at home with her husband watching him feed the deer in their backyard. She looked at a big bag of corn and at that moment an idea popped into her head. She had heard of rice in socks as a soothing heat bag to relieve aches and pains and de-stress tight muscles and her thought was that corn would be much better because it could hold more heat.
She immediately went to work creating a prototype, she sewed up a bag full of corn and popped it in the microwave. Amazed at the soothing penetrating heat she felt, she knew she had a great idea. Kim started by giving these bags as gifts to her children’s teachers. As word spread, more and more people asked her for her corn bags, which she named Wuvits. It seemed everyone in town wanted a Wuvit. Kim had to keep her car stocked with them, because people in the bank or at school events would ask for them. Eventually she realized she had to expand her little business. Read more
