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

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.

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.