If you were starting a business tomorrow, what would it be?

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DH and I keep having wistful chats about leaving our jobs and starting 'a business' but we can't really agree on what and come up with various probably hair-brained ideas... I think it should be enjoyable, he thinks it should make lots of money, and it appears never the twain shall meet

Inspire me - what would you do if you were starting a business tomorrow?

(We could probably scare up a bit of capital if we sold the house, so feel free pretend you have that)

Or hare brained even.

Not a spelling busines, clearly 😀

I would start an education business about employment and payroll visiting schools, colleges and universities doing sessions on CV writing, interviews, payroll, tax, NI and understanding a payslip and spotting errors.

I'm not brave enough to jump though!!

Money no object - either a cat cafe or a campsite like the one Johnny Vegas set up in his TV show last year, created from a bunch of old buses etc converted into campers!

Back in the real world, I’d probably end up making something and selling it for a pittance and ending up in less than NMW as an hourly rate

Maybe buy a little holiday home to rent out on air b&b. I'd also love to do a little afternoon tea delivery business. Or making something I'm interested in like brownies or wax tarts

Selling booze makes money. A bar? A tap room?

A cheese shop

Oh these are all good - I'd love to understand my payslip to be honest!

I said the Airbnb holiday home but he's not convinced. What's a wax tart?

In the past I've made and sold a few things as a sort of hobby but made absolutely no money from them, in fact probably lost money...

Yes a Micropub!

Can you visit my house and teach me? Could you do a module on pensions?

The dove you could do online sessions? And yes, include pensions.

House insulation.

I've always had a dream business but I dont have any capital to start it up.

It would be a party place.
It would have several themed rooms so eg an under water decorated room - you would then have props to theme it so a particular thing eg mermaids, or pirates or octonauts etc. I planned about 6 rooms which between them would cover a whole host of parties.

There would then be a central kitchen to provide the (themed) party food.
At the front would be a cafe, small play area and a little comfy film watching are for parents and siblings to hang out at while the parties were going on.
There was an empty bowling place on a nearby retail park which would have been ideal but would be ££££ to set up and kit out.

These are awesome ideas! Combine the micropub, the cat cafe and the (well-insulated) party place and we'll be sorted!

@ReeseWitherfork YEA I definitely need to add a pensions module onto there!

I've worked in payroll for 18 years, I have a payroll management degree and been a payroll manager for 8 years so I'm qualified lol.

It still amazes me how many people don't know how to read their payslip or even worse just don't look at them at all.

Either a craft shop with cafe

or a sensory cafe which caters for the needs of people with additional needs, offering support groups and similar.

decluttering and organising people’s paperwork…I’ve actually thought about this before

I am moving to South of France in 2023 to start a gite/Airbnb business. I’ve wanted to do this for years. We’ve just sold up our UK house so fairly committed.

I'm looking at retirement in the not so distant future so I struggle with the concept a bit, but my alternative skill set is to be very good at organising and cleaning. I'd love to have a job doing poeple's wardobes, drawers and cupboards. I did my mum's kitchen over the weekend, binning old stuff, cleaning fridge and cupboard shelves, putting what she needs to the front and organising what she doesn't need so that it can be easily removed when she's ready - it's so hard for a mum of 4 to let go of her big pots and pans, but we never gather at her home anymore!

I have 2:

a price comparison website for school supplies

A big warehouse where people pay like £5 membership and it has one of all the big items from prams to dishwashers which you can look at, compare and visualise and then can purchase online the one you want.

A soap & toiletries business - I'm actually making the first forays into it by making my own soap, testing recipes etc but to do as an actual business needs money & legal stuff which is very daunting.

My Mum did this - asked me to check her final payslip leaving a job as she thought they'd underpaid her annual leave. I checked it and said "No, they've calculated the holiday correctly. Shame you're on an emergency tax code [BR] though". Turns out she'd never looked at it, or understood her tax code, and had spent many years being very confused as to why other people seemed to be getting more money that she was.

A couple of hours later, involving her digging out her payslips for the previous 4 years since she'd started working there, it transpired they'd never asked for her P45, so she didn't give it to them, and HMRC had left her on a BR code for the whole time!

One phone call with HMRC later and I'm suddenly daughter of the year for getting her a £3,500 tax refund!

As to what business I'd set up - it'd be for fun and enjoyment more than making millions, but I'd happily spend the day building other people's flat pack furniture!

A set of holiday let’s on the same land