An entrepreneur in Maine, USA, is making money from moose poo!
Mary Winchenbach runs a business called Tirdy Works where she sells artwork made from moose droppings.
‘Everyone goes to the bathroom, so everyone can relate to that,’ Mary told a local TV station.
The popular ‘Poo Poo Clock’ features a nugget of moose poo spaced between each number on a wooden clock face.
‘So that’s one-turdy, two-turdy, three-turdy…’ Mary explains.
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Moose can expel between 200 to 400 nuggets at a time, so the $7 per nugget Mary makes means finding a pile of poo is worth celebrating.
‘I get excited when I see a turd,’ Mary says.
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Samantha Ireland is a real-life and lifestyle writer who is the pen behind that's life!'s Ms Moneysaver column. Samantha draws her experience as a solo mum and wealth of cost-cutting tips to bring you her finance advice each week.
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