Friend's dad went bankrupt over this retarded business idea in the 90s
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Date: April 30th, 2026 7:37 PM Author: quarter-zip wifeguy
During the whole Bill Clinton impeachment stuff he invested his entire savings and cashed out all his .com stocks to make a working Harmonica that was shaped like Monica Lewinski, and even had a dress with a "stain" on it. The tagline on the box was something about having fun Blowing into it.
The product was called Harmonica Lewinsky, and he thought it would be a high selling gag gift. He couldn't get any retailers to carry it, not even Spencers Gift, and ended up with a couple storage lockers full of them. He had even flown to China to oversee the prototype, which was expensive back then. His wife ended up leaving him and I remember his kid wore the same clothes to school for days at a time and had to eat the free school lunch for poor people and beaners.
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Date: April 30th, 2026 8:06 PM Author: JJC (retired)
I'm too ashamed to tell the full story (which almost no one IRL knows about, thankfully), but I once blew around $5k creating a gag gift product that no one bought. To be fair, once I had some made and the shippment arrived ffrom China, I lost interest and never even bothered trying to get anyone to retail them for me.
That said, I did get a handful of sales online.
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