The Something Store

The other day, I was listening to the radio and I heard a snippet about this website called the something store. It is basically a place where you pay $10 to get something. Literally, just something. You have no choice in what you get and the stuff is pretty random. The things range from like a mug to a laptop. Obviously if they are going to make money they give out a lot more mugs than laptops, so I guess it is like a junk lottery. Still, I had to try it.

I got on the website and ordered two "somethings", one for me and one for Kasey (you can specify if it is for a male or female, but that is it). About one week later our somethings arrived. The whole idea behind the site is to try to capture and sell the fleeting moment of excitement that you get right before opening a gift and I have to say, it works. When we got the package I was pretty excited to see what it was and could not wait. Both of our somethings came in the same box and were each in a closed white plastic bag inside the box. We had no way of telling which was for who(m?), so I let kasey open them both. (She was under the mistaken impression that they were both for her!).

I wish that I had pictures to how you what we got, but for now you will just have to settle for a description. The first one she opened was a pair of goggle sunglasses. Not the swimming kind, but rather the sort you would use for a motorcycle maybe? These were obviously mine. Anyway, they have an adjustable black elastic band to strap them to my skull, orange tinted mirror lenses and I think silver frames. When I wear them, I look like a super hero, so I wore them for about an hour after getting them. J

Kasey opened the second something and found a small box hidden inside it. This little box was about three inches cubed and had a picture of an egg on it. Reading it, we found that it was a mini herb garden! (excitement!) So, it has like a full size ceramic(?) egg that you have to gently crack open on the end. It has some stuff in it that you plant the supplied seeds in and a little stand that you stick this ceramic egg on. I really don't know much more about it because it was hard to read with my goggles on. J Kasey thought it was cute and planted the herbs right away.

Anyway, the Something Store is pretty cool and if you have $10 to spare, I highly recommend giving it a try. I think that they did a great job of capturing the anticipation of getting an unknown gift.

Doesn't that totally sound like some crazy idea that I would have come up with?