Money for nothing — BedBumpers™

It's time once again for a bookofjoe brainstorm: a new invention, just conceived by moi, that you can patent, develop, and make a nice chunk of change from.

Me, I've done all the heavy lifting: all you have to do is take your money to the bank.

More or less.

Here's today's lightning bolt: BedBumpers™.

I just gashed my shin on a metal bedframe for probably the thousandth time in my life, this time while making the guest room bed.

Why did I need to make the guest room bed, you might ask?

That's for me to know and .... But I digress.

How is it that ever since I was a boy — and I suspect even before that, back in the 19th century — bed frames have had hard, unforgiving, sharp edges and corners that can strip your shin right down to the bone?

Because the solution is so obvious: simply cover the potentially damaging hard surfaces with something softer.

But the fact no one's done it means you can leave your day job and live the life you've always dreamed of.

Simply fill out a patent application and send it in; then design a prototype and sell it to some mattress maker for a royalty on every set of BedBumpers™ sold.

You'll be rich in no time flat.

I've even thrown in a great product name at no extra charge: you're really not gonna get a better deal during what remains of the day.

Hey — that would make a great title for a book, don't you think?