Business Startups: River Inner Tube Rentals and Craft Fair Concessions

By The Readers Of Mother Earth News
Published on March 1, 1983
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Photo by Mary Hagemann
The river inner tube rentals business was profitable in the summer AND winter, with the tubes performing double duty as sleds.

The following are business startups readers established after reading articles in MOTHER EARTH NEWS.

River Inner Tube Rentals

Last spring, as I was eagerly searching through the pages of various copies of MOTHER EARTH NEWS in hopes of finding a venture that would help me bring in some extra cash, I came across Mary B. Bowling’s Take Advantage of Summer Tourism With an Inner Tube Business and decided to give that enterprise a try.

Since I’m fortunate enough to live near a river (and a few other water-recreation spots), I knew there would be a demand for floats. I opted to rent my tubes out on a daily basis rather than sell them in order to limit the labor and time involved in locating and patching used castoffs. I found that this moneymaker isn’t limited to warm weather, either. During the winter, when snow covered the nearby hills, I was able to rent my inflatable rafts as sleds!

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