Pie in a Jar is a entre­prenuer internet-powered busi­ness where any­one can pur­chase for a “mere” $19.95 a Pie in a Jar. Accord­ing to the site’s owner, he said this con­cept was orig­i­nally con­ceived by an old Gypsy woman who he found one night while tak­ing a short­cut through Graven’s Pet Semetary.

Not really the story that is dis­played on the site, but hey, I tried to add some sort of sus­pense and inter­est to how it was con­cep­tu­al­ized. In real­ity, it was an old woman who sug­gested the idea of how inge­nious it would be to sell an entire pie in a jar. I don’t believe she con­sid­ered the Inter­net as it’s start­ing grounds but prob­a­bly a more down home set­ting like along­side the road in one of those mis­shapen lemonade-type stands.

Some­times these kinds of ideas flour­ish because of their roots in the Inter­net. How­ever, it seems that every­one is try­ing to cap­i­tal­ize on the ‘Net by putting up noth­ing more than a dig­i­tal garage sale. Don’t get me wrong, Ebay and Half.com are exactly that; yard sales on the ‘Net — yet, it seems that among the nor­mal plants there exist a few weird weeds. The sites that sell stu­pid items that only peo­ple who fre­quent yard sales would ever con­sider purchasing.

In the past few months I’ve seen every­thing from just stu­pid to insane. From ideas like “cats in a jar” where the kit­ten is placed into a jar in it’s young life and remains there until it’s grown into a cat. The idea is that the kitten’s body will con­form to the shape of the jar and for­ever remain the size of a “kit­ten” while actu­ally being full grown. Sup­pos­edly, this idea comes from an Asian prac­tice of mak­ing cats that remain in kit­ten form. Admit­tedly, I’d love for a kit­ten to stay the same but it’s insane to force the shape of it’s body to remain so small.

I’ve seen peo­ple try to sell their belly-button lint or a tile from their old kitchen floor of which they “just remod­eled”. Why would any­one buy these things? It’s sim­ple as George Car­lin would say, peo­ple love buy­ing other people’s junk. Fill­ing their house brim to brim with stuff and when they go on vaca­tion they take smaller por­tions of their stuff and ulti­mately buy more stuff on their trip.

In which case, I’ve decided to put up an Inter­net store to sell off bits of the car­pet shav­ings in my room.