Sunday, July 17, 2016

Is it true I'm back again?

Last night after scrolling through my list of bookmarked sites I saw some very old ones re: "penny doubling" and I found most were defunct or inactive. I was surprised to see to see this one, mine!-- on an old blog roll. I'm now thinking of reviving this and perhaps morphing it into something new. I'm having some difficulty logging in and publishing so I'll need to see if that can be worked out.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

I'm so happy to be back!

I've had a difficult time returning to this blog. I hope my perserverance pays off and I'm able to submit this new blog post.

I also hope I'm able to return again. I'd like to transfer it to my gmail account too. I hope it works.

Good luck me...

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Test

Unable to post. Testing.

I'm Baaaaaccckk!

It's July 1st 2011, the start of a long holiday weekend celebrating our country's independence. It's also an anniversary of sorts of the beginning of this blog. I've been away for a while. Now I have returned. Let's see if we can get this thing to work again.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Start With A Penny: The Bigger And Better Game

The Red Paperclip Trades, mentioned in the last blog post, were a power version of the game "Bigger and Better" game. I have never played the game but here are a couple of videos which show teenage girls who are having a good time with it.

These two videos are embedded here courtesy of YouTube.com and the delightful young ladies you will see in a minute. I have chosen size 340x285 for these these videos. The video posted earlier, of the "Red Paperclip Trades" was a bigger 445x364 size. It's a little large for the blog so I am experimenting with the smaller size and leaving the larger one for comparision.

"Bigger and Better" - Part One



"Bigger and Better" - Part Two

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Start With A Penny: What's it all about?

Here's a quick review. Two years ago I read a forum post about a guy who bartered and traded his way from a red paperclip up to a house! OK, I like real estate and I like games; now I was hooked.

Crazy! I surfed the Internet and found the "red paperclip" web site and also some places where people were trading and starting with items of small value. Next, I found some bloggers who were doing something similar, making a series of trades or deal and doubling their money each time. The goal is to reach a million dollars.

A MILLION DOLLARS. Can it be done? Who knows? Trading up to $1,000,000 seems as impossible as an "Indiana Jones" adventure but I bet the journey would be thrilling. Here's a video showing the red paperclip to house trades.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Start With A Penny: I'm ba-a-a-a-ck.

I'm back. I know, I know, I've said it before but this time I think it will stick. You see, I've had "a sign." A sign like the one in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle." In this movie, the heroine--played by Meg Ryan--has a torn wedding gown that foretells the wrong choice of man to marry.

My sign was, of course, a penny. Here's "the sign" (no kidding!):

Yesterday I was standing at the bus stop, minding my own business, when from out of nowhere a penny appears on the sidewalk about six feet away from me. It just appeared. It wasn't mine. There was no one else there. And yes, I had looked at the area before the penny appeared. Blank sidewalk!

I think, like Meg Ryan, "It's a sign!" How could this be? I really don't know. I was on a slight incline; perhaps it rolled down the hill...and then for some reason stopped and lay flat? Odd, right?

Anyway, I choose to believe that it's a sign that I should return to the penny project and do something about it! So dear readers--past, present and future, I will soon have more posts for you to read.

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