He made his money with the "Ear Brush" when hairy ears became fashionable. He followed it up with "Ear Crimpers" and the "Ear Perm". People would grow their ear hair especially long and plat it, wearing ribbons and hoops in the greasy, waxy hair. When the fashions changed, he was quick to introduce the "Ear Shaver", but plucking became the new thing, and he lost money to the tweezer industry. He lost a lot of money and almost had to sell his house. His wife left him, taking the ridiculously overpriced poodles she had bought from some bloke down the pub, and one of the few petrol cars still authorised to drive the new clean roads. He ended up renting out his house to people with more money than sense while he slept in the shed at the end of the garden.
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