Star Community Newspapers:
Kate Julian teaches women how to jump start a car, fix a toilet, or install a light fixture and then sells them a color-coordinated tool kit with which to accomplish those tasks.
The Providence Village resident saw an ad for Tomboy Tools in a magazine and inquired about becoming a representative and has had a flourishing home business ever since.
Tomboy Tools was started by two women in Denver, Colorado in 2000 who did their own car and home repairs. They had trouble finding smaller and lighter tools that were comfortable for women to use.
They formed a tool product line designed specifically for women to use. The tools originally were blue. Recently they came out with a pink line of tools. A portion of the sales of part of the pink line benefits the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
The tools are not sold in stores. Tomboy Tools uses a sales technique very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, the home party.
Logo from Tomboy Tools