Drew Scott: Our parents dressed us in the same clothes but different colours so that they could tell us apart. Jonathan was always in blue, and I was in red, yellow, pink and every other colour. They discovered that twins are pretty easy because we would just entertain ourselves. Our mom could buy diapers in bulk and get a discount, too, which was an added bonus.
When they were seven, the Scott twins began selling nylon-covered hangers, which a distributor ultimately purchased in bulk to sell in Japan.

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D.S.: We had seen these hangers at a craft store and thought they looked like something we could do. We figured out the material and how to make them and then thought we?d test them door to door in our neighbourhood. People absolutely loved them! Clothes wouldn?t slip off, you wouldn?t get stretch marks on the shoulders, and we could customize the colours to whatever people wanted.

Jonathan Scott: We weren?t sheltered or babied in any way. Our parents socialized us with adults on a regular basis so that we were never shy around them, which paid off in a big way. Growing up, I remember that a lot of my friends were too nervous to interact with adults, b...