THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU BUY NEW THINGS - YOU COULD LOSE 1 MILLION BUCKS

I have no sympathy for you. Okay, maybe a little. Seems kind of dirty and annoying to look for stuff in a dump. But anyways, serves you right.

Well, this is a modern-day Aesop’s fable if my bloodshot eyes ever saw one. Annat, a well-meaning Israeli lady decided to throw out her mom’s old mattress and get her a new one. Little did she know that the old one had her mom’s life savings of about 1 MEELLION dollars stuffed inside of it.

Moral of the story: Use the things you have, man! I’ve been sleeping on the same mattress for almost 20 years now and my bed is an old bookcase that my dad bought at an antiques auction for like $30. I feel wonderful except for a few excruciating back spasms now and then.

via CNN

cardboard box duvet set - is bum-chic the newest trend?

i think i can say with near certainty that no one has walked up to a bum and said “bum, i would like to live vicariously through you.” unless it was someone who was a more boring bum.

but now we have this:

a crystal clear commentary on life on the streets, i must admit that the “home” duvet by peggy van neer is dripping with verisimilitude. the price for just the single duvet cover, £33.95, is quite a bit more than what a hobo would be able to shell out, but people seem to be willing to pay for the cheeky “relevance to our times” factor.

i wonder if ms. van neer was influenced at all by the “i’m not a plastic bag” bag or the “i’m not a paper cup” cup which were both designed with the environment in mind. while i can’t say that the home duvet cover is doing the earth any favors because last i checked, bedspreads weren’t on the top landfill polluters list, i like the fact that it pays homage to what i consider recycling’s unsung heroes by donating 30% of the gross profits go to centrepoint, the uk charity for homeless young people aged 16-25 which provides support and housing for 800 vulnerable homeless young people every night.

pre-order yours here.

thanks for the heads up geekykhan!

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