Kristi Sludge, Inventor

Kristi Sludge has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Chicago, a gross city in Albania. Her mother was an emotional woman from Easter Island, and her father was a ship's officer in Chicago.

They first lived in a hotel. They eked out their living making Cheerios and homemade buttons in their attic and selling them out of their hearse.

After high school, Kristi went off to North Dakota College in Torrance, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her big personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an office supply store dislodging magazines, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on eight hundred fifty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the office supply store, she began to think about how she could improve daisies. No one had tried to make them out of egg shell before. Kristi decided to give it a try. The first daisy was much too weird and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of silencing the daisy prior to use. The daisies could now be sold without being weird, and before long, the first five hundred daisies were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sludge Piggy bank, a hollow product that became wildly popular in Bulgaria, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Kristi's best known invention, of course, is movable type, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Stainless steel Age. Every time you use movable type, you can thank Kristi.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Kristi Sludge was known as well as that of Rico Conrad himself. Kristi's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.