A mother-of-three has told how she’s set to become a millionaire thanks to a beauty storage unit her seven-year-old son invented.
Marcy McKenna, 44, from California, was looking for a solution for the grooming products cluttering the bathroom and jokingly asked her son, Jack, to build something out of Lego (Lego is a construction toy consisting of interlocking plastic building blocks).
Impressed with what he crafted, she turned the prototype into a working device and when the $132 ‘Style & Go‘ cabinet made its debut on the Home Shopping Network it sold out in three appearances.
Mrs McKenna revealed to the Huffington Post that her husband used to continually complain about the styling products and tools she would leave lying around.
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‘There were electrical cords everywhere. And it wasn’t just our bathroom.
‘My mother lives with us and because we have a pedestal sink in the bathroom she uses, she was storing her styling tools in a big white bucket. There was just nowhere to hide the mess.’
She challenged him to solve her woes and create something.
The budding entrepreneur was discussing her clutter issues with her mother, and noticed that her son was sat playing with his Lego.
‘I remember thinking, If this turns into something, I’m always going to remember this moment,’ Mrs McKenna recalled.
Matt worked with his mother and grandmother, to figure out what compartments were needed in the box and how the cords for electrical gadgets would be stored.
Once finished, the three were excited about what they’d come with. But getting the product to market was no easy feat.
Lacking the funds needed to bring the idea to life, Mrs McKenna entered TLC’s contest, Homemade Millionaire.
The reality show arms inventors with professional product guidance and exposure to suitable distributors.
After competing as one of only three finalists in the beauty product category, Mrs McKenna’s Style & Go was declared winner.
‘I felt like it was meant to be,’ Mrs McKenna recalled.
This year – hit by the entrepreneurial bug – she will be debuting more products that offer simple solutions to everyday problems on QVC. She projects revenue of nearly a million dollars.
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