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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.