New Hampshire, Boston and New York bound!

We finally got our tickets to fly back east. We will be flying into New York, (JFK airport) and then driving to New Hampshire to complete the second trade. I will be trading up with Chris, an electrician in a small town in NH, for his box of Skeleton Keys, Random Old Keys and a Wolf Paperweight. What a pain it has been to find a deal on airfare, the prices have been really high lately and I was hoping they would have come down after that foiled terrorist plot. The prices did finally drop but only for a few hours and by the time we figured out how many days we wanted to stay the price jumped back up. (These airlines are almost worse than the stock market, but I won't go there, my wife will kill me.) We finally found a deal and jumped on it before it went back up again, whew!

After we finish the trade with Chris in New Hampshire we are heading over to Boston for a few days and then down to NYC. It should be a lot of fun. We are going for a total of 5 days and 5 nights, hopefully that's enough time to see a few sights. If you know of something that we MUST do or see or maybe your favorite restaurant we should go to, please add a comment or send me an email at onepinchofpocketlint@gmail.com.

One thing for sure, we plan on going to Times Square for the 2006 Broadway on Broadway 15th annual FREE outdoor concert. The event will be hosted by Martin Short and will feature musical numbers and star appearances from almost every play and musical on Broadway, as well as sneak peeks at several upcoming shows scheduled for the 2006-07 theatre season. Should be a great show, and it's FREE!

Even though I don't have the Skeleton keys in hand just yet, I am still taking offers for them and it would work out great if I received an offer I could not refuse in Boston or NYC while I am out there. So if you are interested in trading something bigger or better, send me an offer here onepinchofpocketlint@gmail.com.

Offer accepted for the One 1976 Silver Dollar

I know, you're probably saying, "it’s about time!" but I have been busy lately, I’ve been dealing with a Stalker, and that was like a full time job in itself. Also, I was waiting for the right trade to come along. The offer came from Chris and he sent such a great email I thought I would share it with all of you. It reads like this:

George Ogan,

Even though trading up to a house has been done before, why not do it again, so what if it's been done, it's still an adventure every time that someone does something like this, be it for a car because they don't have one, or larger goals to get themselves a house. So I give you a great deal of credit for that.

But that's not why I decided to write, it was actually me wondering if you were staying in a particular section of the US to make trades or if you're traveling a-la oneredpaperclip did for all of their trades?

If you're willing to do trades all the way across the US, being in NH or east coast area ( Not meaning just traveling there, but if you'd be doing shipped items or not. I'd be willing to offer you a box of skeleton keys and other random keys that came from an old farmhouse that was being torn down when I was but a little kid. And if that isn't enough incentive, I'll throw in a wolf figure cast in a resin shell to be a paperweight.

That all said and done, best of luck to you with your trading up, because it just means that every new trade comes new friends and new adventures.

Thanks in advance,

Chris Bevans
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There are thousands that where inspired by Kyle, the one red paperclip guy and many have started their own journeys and they all have there own spin on it. Even if it was the same idea exactly, the adventure will always be new and different. That said, I have accepted Chris’s offer and I am working on the arrangements to fly out to New Hampshire to complete my second trade. I will update this post with more details as they come in. Got to run, I have some packing to do!

STALKER!

I have a stalker! That's right a full fledge stalker, I feel like a celebrity. Thanks man, it feels great to be a celebrity but Please! No paparazzi! I don't think Kyle the one red paperclip guy ever had a stalker, he never mentioned it from what I recall. Kyle, you got your house but I gotts me a Stalker.

This stalker has followed me around from San Francisco to San Diego from The OC to Vegas. Anywhere I place an ad on CraigsList, he is there 10 minutes to an hour later posting 4 to 5 ads in a row, similar to mine but with little differences, saying he is the original silver dollar trader, he writes "I am the first one to do this and all the others are copying me so flag all these fakes" and on and on.

It started in the LA area CraigsList then moved to OC just littering the net with bogus ads. I tried to defend myself but that didn't help, it even made it worse. Then he started cussing at me. I tried to defend myself but he just used it as fuel for a major fire, then he crossed the line. He started using my email address and my web address and started cussing at people making it look like it was me in his ads. Wow, can you say "defamation of character". I have even had people defend me, posting to leave me alone, that I am just trying to have fun, but he thinks he knows my writing style and that it's just me pretending to be someone else. Nice try, but people can see right through you. It makes no sense for someone to post so many ads at once, all in a row when hours ago there was none to speak of.

This has been going on since July 27, 2006. This person has made a full time job out of this. Everyday I have to re-post my ad, because the previous ad was removed by people flagging it, thanks to him. The stalker is there with a vengeance to take me down! I am not sure what I did to deserve this sort of attention but I'm sort of flattered. Not everyday do you have a stalker.

He told me at first that the trade-up to a house has been done, he is referring to Kyle with the one red paperclip, that it was a novelty and it's old, and for me to be original.

Well, your stalking is getting old and even though it's not a novelty, it has been done and they all have paid the price. Not saying I am going to waste the money to prosecute you, the stalker, but one day you will piss off the wrong person and get what you deserve.

I think the only way to stop him is if I can find a attorney that will work pro bono. I will give free advertising on my blog for the life of the site, to subpoena CraigsList and get his information and serve him with a civil suit. I have been in contact with CraigsList but they can not give me his information with out a subpoena.

I would hate to take it that far but I feel bad for this person, they have no life, no future, no reason to live in society, maybe not even in a institution. It's pretty scary to think that there is such a person on earth like this.

Please send in your stalker horror stories; I would like to know if ordinary people, like myself, not famous, yet, have or have had a stalker.

Offers for the One 1976 Silver Dollar

The 1776-1976 Bicentennial Silver Dollar is ready to go with the One Pinch of Pocket Lint official unofficial Certificate of Authenticity and inserted in a coin protector. The Certificate will be filled out the day of the trade to make it official. So keep those offers rolling in, only a few more days before I pick one.

You can email your offers to me here onepinchofpocketlint@gmail.com

I have received a few offers so far, tell me which one you think is best. I am looking for something out of the ordinary that might not be worth much to you but to someone else maybe.

• Mike emailed Saying "let's get you off to a good start, I will take your dollar in trade for my PS2 Game Roller Coaster." Looks like a fun game.
• Adam offered a 7" maroon colored Porsche model car in a nice plastic display case. Not sure what model Porsche it is yet, hopefully a picture is on it way.
• Robert ran across my quest and offered a Brand New Sealed Mini Game System, BZ BlockZone, that comes with 8 games built in. Pretty cool.
• Jeph would like to trade his Atari System with one controller and one game. Not sure what the deal is with everyone offering some kind of video game and or console but it's pretty funny. There's some good choices there.
• Hallie has two pairs of once used Ski Pants made by Utility size XL she would like to trade.
• Sheila has several items to choose from that she offered, from a RC PT Cruiser to a Maraca.

If any of these items sound good to you and you want to offer something to trade for them or offers for the Silver Dollar, just email the offers to me here onepinchofpocketlint@gmail.com