Another Use...

In case anybody was still doubting the usefulness of a simple bobby pin, take my recent dilemma:

In preparing a dessert for Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow I opened up a carton of whipping cream all the way, not realizing I only needed half of it. What do you do when you need to seal and store an open carton of cream?



This isn't THE bobby pin. THE bobby pin is in a much more sterile environment, being psyched out for a big trade tomorrow.

Anybody want to help a desperate Economics student??

Hello world. I would like you to join me in a project. Experiment, really. Well, maybe more of an amusement.

For Econ we watched a news report of a Canadian man who bartered his way up from one red paper clip to a house. People traded him better stuff for what he offered originally as a gimmick, but later wanted to partake of his celebrity status. This guy's website is oneredpaperclip.com. Take a look--it's a great story!

My teacher, Mr. Loeffler, said we could try the same thing for our semester project.

So here I am with my offer: a bobby pin.

What could I get for a blonde bobby pin? I know sometimes I wish I had a bobby pin for the occasional mid-day hairstyle switch. Or suppose it rains (I know, unlikely in California these days) and your bangs frizz up. I know I would do almost anything to have a bobby pin to put them up.

People get desperate. And they'll do desperate things. Like, I don't know, trade me a pen for the bobby pin. You never know.

My hope is to make good trades and work my way up into a market where what I have is actually worth something. But I've got to start small. Bobby pin small.

So I've thrown this out there. I hope to link to friends' blogs and have them see this. I'm also going to post this link to my facebook page.

Any offers??