February 16, 2024
#2895: Treasure Chests explain
![[earlier] "Your vintage-style handmade chest business is struggling. But I have a plan." Treasure Chests](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/treasure_chests_2x.png)
[Black Hat is holding a treasure chest in one hand and pointing with a stick to a poster that features a shovel at the top, three circled X’s below it, and five question marks around them.]
Black Hat: First, I’ll fill three of these chests with $1,000 each in small silver and gold coins, and take videos of them being buried in unidentified lawns around town.
Black Hat: Next year, I post the videos.
Black Hat: Then we sit back and let the local kids do the rest.
[Caption below the panel:]
The proposal for creating business for our lawn care company was unorthodox but extremely effective.