Do you know about Where's George? You track money and how it has travelled to end up in your hands. In May, I received a bill as part of my change at the Super Cheap Thrift Store marked with the"Where's George.com" logo. I knew about the website, so decided to log on and see the journey my dollar bill had taken. It had come by way of North Virginia and ended up in my small town. I logged my dollar bill and then used it as payment at the local grocery store and sent it on it's new journey around the world.
What is a monkeybox?
When I was a little girl, we had a pet monkey named Amanda. My Dad worked in the produce business, so each night he brought home that days culls in a big box - spotty cucumbers, pithy apples, limp celery, moldy oranges and the like. We called it a monkeybox. It was really just trash, but my Mom would take each piece of fruit and trim it, pare it and cut it up to make a beautiful fruit platter for Amanda. Even though it was deemed trash by one, it still had life left in it and was good for the purpose we needed it. That's how I live my life - thrifting, yard saling, looking for another's trash to be my treasure.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Where's George?
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I've never heard of tracking money before but I bet it is exciting to see where it has been.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting! I have a bunch of $$ logged into the Where's George website, and in the last 6 months no one has gone in and logged its location. To find the same dollar bill twice is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThat is just weird!
ReplyDeleteha! that is weird
ReplyDeletei loved your idea on another blog, so i followed you here. you said you put flowers in an old oven mit, that sounds like such a cute idea, i would keep it as is! clever