Million Dollar Idea: Hair/Bio Self-Storage

Hear me out on this idea that popped into my head last night when somehow a couple of us started talking about wigs. I’ve read about women donating their hair for wigs, used by children undergoing chemotherapy or with other medical conditions. Well what about older women that still have plenty of hair, but are interested in wigs made with young, vivacious, beautiful hair—hair that looks like their own hair once did? It’s easily possible to make these older women natural wigs. Young women could harvest their own hair and store it for personal use down the road. To make a million dollars, open a nationwide chain of hair self-storage facilities or “banks.”

More broadly, this concept could be applied to men wanting toupées or hair plugs made with their harvested teenage hair. Taken another level out, why stop with hair? We already have sperm and egg banks, and I’ve heard of donations being made for personal use in later years. We all know adults who are unable to reproduce, but were they once able? A donation in his younger years would sure prove helpful to a mid-20-something man victimized by blunt testicular trauma during a nerve football scrimmage.

It seems so senseless that we have this capability, to store our most valuable “stuff” that we might want or need in our older years, but don’t. Being able to put these things in a bank is nothing more than insurance for baldness, sterility, and many other afflictions. Additionally, cryobiology banking could be used for family planning. For example, as strange as it might sound, many men are having vasectomies in their 20s. Some do this because they never want children, but another reason might be so that they don’t have any “accidental” children before they are ready. For those who are very interested in family planning and having control over every detail of reproduction, a combination program of sperm/egg donation followed by vasectomy/tubal ligation might be just what is needed.

I’m not sure why these practices aren’t mainstream yet, except for seeming “weird.” Soon, we will be harvesting more than hair and eggs from ourselves. As the average lifespan continues to increase and as more and more people put off procreation until their 30s and sometimes 40s, it makes sense to take advantage of our youthful perfection, by saving our own goods for later. Banking our assets opens up many options in the decades ahead.

I’m dead serious when I say that this is a million dollar idea. This will happen and become mainstream, making someone a billionaire. If you have the entrepreneurial motivation, a lot of start-up capital, and any background in cryobiology, this opportunity is for you.