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What are some things youve done that have not caught on? What are you into currently?
Gardening in the last few years, sourdough and home fermentation I've done for 15 years or so. I don't really think those will catch on generally because most people don't cook but I will say a few people have asked for some of my starter lately so who knows? Tepache I've been making for years and I just saw some being sold in whole foods, so maybe. But more likely that happened as an offshoot of the Kombucha craze, which I was not a part of. Have been using henna to color my hair for years too, that hasn't exploded in popularity.
I have been late to the party on things too - mobile phones I held out as long as I could, Pokemon Go, late adopter. Electric bike. Fontaines DC.
On the really spooky side though - I had this dining room set from the 1940s, the upholstery tore so I went to the local commercial upholstery shop and found sparkly red vinyl from the state fair rides, reupholstered them (badly) with silver trim.
Couple years later was at Target and they had a reproduction set exactly like my old one - exactly the same chairs, covered in the exact same sparkly red vinyl I'd used. It was precisely like my kitchen table set just better execution. What the actual fuck?
Target legit steals designs from lesser known artists, even here in Australia they've been caught doing it
I can absolutely believe that, but I don't think I had any Target executives over, and it was before social media. And that's really why I think it's a useless skill, someone else could have looked at it and thought "huh, that would sell" but all I was thinking was that it would look unusual and cool and not sellable.