Category Archives: Offer

In journalism there’s an expresion called “burying the lead [or lede]” which means the failure to put the most interesting element of the story front and center to grab the reader’s attention.  For example, this offer: Offer: Kraft Light Mayo, … Continue reading →

I debated making this a “guess what it is” post, showing the picture and doing a contest. But the OFFER was too good: OFFER: Clock second hand, red I read it again thinking, “Don’t they realize that everything on Freecycle … Continue reading →

You know how they say a fine wine gets better with age?  Did you ever notice that nobody ever says that about butter? OFFER: Smart Balance spray butter – expired Feb 2010 May of 2010 this was posted. I forgot … Continue reading →

In a normal process of elimination, you end up with the best option by eliminating the lesser ones.  This exercise is sort of the opposite. We’ll start with something useful and then see how much of the usefulness we can … Continue reading →

What we need are more creative uses for long-expired foodstuffs. Continue reading →

May of 2010 found this offer: OFFER: 2009 calendar of Georgia O’Keeffe prints Approximately 7x7in. Old calendar. One color illustration print for each month. For a Georgia O’Keeffe fan. I can think of a lot of times when a 2009 … Continue reading →

This came just in time since the 32 GB thumb drive on my keychain just filled up . . . OFFER: Floppy disks 100+ Floppy disks. 1.44 MB storage. I’m putting on my Member’s Only jacket, hopping in the TransAm … Continue reading →

OFFER: Old computer software disks (CDs) Hmmm . . . wonder what they are. Games? Maybe a couple versions back of Photoshop.  Quicken 2003? This could be interesting, let’s open up this bad boy: I have about 15 disks from … Continue reading →

Did you ever notice there’s no word for a 7-fingered glove? There’s also no word for a computer keyboard without keys?  Why? Because nobody needs those things, therefore nobody needs a word for those things. You’d think the lack of … Continue reading →