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The materials I used on this project (yours may be different depending on your goals):

• A quality color printer My dad's (seen above), meaning it cost me only a 45 minute trip to my parents' house to use

• A 4-megapixel Minolta digital camera Again a borrowed piece of equipment for the job

• A pair of scissors

• A few sheets of white construction paper

• A box of crayons

• The help of my 8-year-old son I don't know how you would calculate the investment on this one but he will probably be mowing a lot of grass when he's 16 too and I wouldn't really consider his upkeep between now and then as investment into that service either.

• Several hours squeezed in here and there over a two week period mostly on weekends This is the major investment for most bootstrappers.

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