How to Make Money Making Candles

Image Gallery Dennis Murphy, just after moving into his new basement workshop. Note the still-unpacked molds in lower left corner of this photo and empty crates (that will soon be filled with candles) in the background.

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Dennis Murphy — a young man in Rochester, Michigan — has proven to my satisfaction that even the cold, hard world of business will soften and thaw for the individual whose heart is pure.

Dennis, you see, has a little home enterprise he conducts from his basement and the venture allows him to create a product that he enjoys and believes in. Furthermore, Dennis has found he can gladden customers' hearts by offering them his product at one-third the price they expect to pay. The customers, in turn, are grateful for the opportunity to buy . . . and they do. And that allows Denny to hire his friends at very good wages for work they find pleasurable which, of course, gladdens their hearts.

And is Dennis rewarded for spreading all this Good Karma? You bet he is! For Dennis Murphy can gross one thousand dollars a day with his little home business. Of course, it sometimes takes him a whole week to prepare for that one big day . . . and you must realize that Denny only gets $850 out of the thousand.

Still and all, I think you'll admit that young Dennis Murphy is doing very well.

As a matter of fact, Denny is doing so well that he doesn't even bother to work every week. In his words, "It's not the business of business, it's the business of living that interests me."

Of course, the path to such perfect attainment and true enlightenment is seldom easy and it took Dennis over two years to discover and refine the secret of his current success. Fortunately, however, Denny is quite pleased to share that secret with others. "I can tell you how I do it," he says, "and—I hope—prevent you from making the mistakes I made. That way, you can start out where I am now."

The venture that keeps Dennis in the business of living . . . is the business of making and selling candles. Yes, there really is money in home crafts and—if you happen to not like candles—Denny feels that his ideas can be adapted to almost any craft by almost anyone. He says, "There are many different ways to prduce and sell a craft but I learned by hard experience that some of the most obvious methods are not necessarily the best. I don't propose to tell anyone how he should go about making a living with crafts . . . but I'll tell you what I've learned and if you follow my suggestions I'm sure you'll make money . . . good money."

The rules of the game can definitely be learned. Prior to the spring of 1969, the only thing Dennis knew about candles was that burning them at both ends is expensive. As a college junior, he had too much time in school to quit and not enough money to continue. Denny finally made the supreme sacrifice and went out into the "real" world in serious search of employment. The foray was fruitless and, discouraged, Dennis and an equally-destitute friend sought solace in each other's misery. The friend — who was into making plastic flowers — suggested that if Dennis found a craft they might be able to make some money hawking their wares together at flea markets.

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