The Growing Lemonade Stand

There are many cute sayings on how hard times bring about new discoveries. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” “Turning adversity to advantage.”

At Recessionwire, we’re always amazed by the stories of how people are dealing with the tough hand that’s being dealt us all right now, but the clichés don’t capture it — the obstacles from without and especially within that go into taking this pile of, ahem, economic lemons and not simply dumping them but turning them into drinkable, sellable lemonade…