Have you ever thought about the value of all the papers and miscellaneous stuff that your kids bring home from school? It might be worth its weight in gold!

While surfing the web, I came across a novel idea. The website www.origamiboulder.com takes paper waded into a ball and then sells it to the general public. For $10 you can buy an Origami Boulder OR you can upgrade that for $15 and can get a boulder with a Haiku written on it. (That doesn’t include shipping, by the way.)

There must be a marketing and business professor at some university who is just beaming with pride at this student’s inventiveness and ingenuity. Talk about thinking outside the box, well really for $29 you can get your boulder in a box.

The way I see it, there are three types of people. First, the ones who don’t sit around and let the world pass them by but use their time to become great at any endeavor. Second, those who sit around and buy the ’stuff’ others so ingeniously come up with. Third, the rest of use who wish we had thought of it first.

What does this have to do with education and why you shouldn’t throw those papers away? Your guess is as good as mine. Had I thought of the Origami Boulder, I could have profited from my child’s hundreds of school papers and put me in the realms of the great thinkers of our time. Who knows, that backpack might have put my child through college. Then they could be the next to come up with the newest novel idea. Their idea might just spark the next pet rock craze!!