Gallery: Bag Of Crap 2
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My Brindle of Carrots (aka, Bag Of Crap) arrived today!
For the unwashed among you, the deal-a-day website Woot! has a number of quirky traditions. Among these are occassionally holding non-stop one-deal-after-another marathons called "Woot-Offs", and another where they sell you a bag of random crap for a buck. Both have become ritualized and fetishized, and actually scoring a Bag Of Crap (BOC) is a tremendous challenge. Demand is great, robot auto-ordering tools common, and Woot's servers are historically fragile.
Nevertheless, during a Woot-Off in August 2011 I was successful for the second time, and my second BOC arrived on Monday, 29 August. I photographed the unboxing for you.
The previous BOC arrived in an official, logo-adorned Woot! box. This one came in a plain, unmarked brown box, perhaps befitting the fact that is was even crappier crap. This one contained:
- Bright green bags of stale air from Texas
- A cheap tote bag adorned with leaping orcas (the "bag" for the Bag of Crap)
- Five extra-small cotton polo shirts in various colors
- One dozen poorly made skull-and-bones pendants with non-funtional LED lights
- Two "Wibbly Fun" Koosh-ball knockoffs
- One Furniture Cleaner and Polish kit
- One Energizer "Energi To Go" portable cell phone battery charger
I suppose the cell phone battery extender might be useful, and the shirts and toys will probably be appreciated by some local charity, but all in all this was a bag of crap!
(Note: I have since scored another bag of crap! See the December 2011 score.)
Each thumbnail below links to a much larger image of about 650 kB in size.
 It's here! Anticipation... |
 In a plain brown wrapper. |
 The captured atmosphere of Carrollton, TX protecting the goods. |
 The stuff! |
 Air. Good thing to have. |
 Sea-creature themed bags seemed to be in all the packages. |
 Some nice shirts, but all sized XS. |
 Koosh ball wannabes. |
 A dust rag? Trying to tell me something? |
 USB device battery extender. Potentially useful. |
 A full dozen of poorly made jewelry items. |
 Batteries mostly dead, LEDs all dead, & glue holding it together dried up. |
 It's called a Bag of Crap for a reason. |
 "Shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get." |
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