Calendar Madness
The
problem:
For those of you following this website for the past several years, you no doubt have noticed a pattern to these contests. I’m always looking for ways to turn “waste” into something useful, whether it’s single socks or old cds or plastic bags. Well here’s another one for you. It's holiday time as I update this website and I am already inundated with big, glossy calendars from dozens of vendors. While a few are real keepers, most are not. I use the pretty ones for wrapping gifts, but what to do with all the others except put in the recycle bin?
Put on your thinking caps and in a 100 words or less tell us what great uses you have found for calendars.
The deadline for entry is December 31, 2009 and we’ll announce the winners of the contest shortly after that.
Click
here to enter the contest!
Here is an
example of a past contest and its results.
The
Sock Monster's Revenge!
The
problem:
We recently
moved and discovered a huge bag of single socks. I could have
sworn I put two socks into the wash and two into the dryer every
time...but the Sock Monster must grab them! We are convinced our
missing socks get re-materialized in someone else's laundry in
Peoria, and we're getting visiting socks from places like California.
That's the inspiration for this new contest.
In 100 words
or less, please come up with a creative use for the single socks
that most of us seem to accumulate quite readily. We're
not just looking for unique ideas this time but want to add another
criteria. What can be created that would have some additional
"socially responsible" or community benefit?
And the
winner was...
D. Gault from
Ohio is the winner of the Sock Monster contest. He offered two
ideas:
1. Sell them
to a store that caters to adolescents, early and pre-teens. They
would stack them up and make available on a price per sock basis.
The kids could set a new trend and wear unmatched and wild socks.
2. As above
but cut them apart and offer just the upper part for kids to wear
around their ankles in winter.
But the real surprise came when we learned of some folks who had serendipitously taken this challenge very seriously and launched a business based on mismatched socks! You can check out their line of unique, fashion forward socks at www.littleMissMatched.com
