Buying the stairway to Heaven

Have you realized how many simple things have been packed, over priced and bought by millions of people everyday? Somewhere, somebody got the bright idea to package simple, everyday things and make a profit selling them. I wish I would have thought of it first.

          $1 a bottle? What a deal!

Water is the easiest example to pick on. You mean to tell me somebody bottled up water, the essential substance on Earth, the key to life, and started selling it? What idiots would pay money for water when it's practically free from the tap? Oh...

I don't know who first "manufactured" water but they are geniuses.

Another example: sod. Grass? Really? You are going to buy grass? Why don't you grab a shovel, drive down the street and dig some up yourself. Better yet, why don't you wait for it to rain and grass will magically grow from the ground.

I imagine the companies that sell sod have sod farms. Otherwise know as yards, lawns and fields. Hell, my parents have a sod farm in front of and behind my house. We should start capitalizing soon.

Blowout Sale! Buy a front yard, get the back and side yards for free!

The last example I have is cardboard boxes. Instead of saving the cardboard box that comes with almost every object they buy, people throw them away. When it come to moving time, they run to the store and buy cardboard boxes.

Apparently they don't have friends, or parents, or co-workers or anybody with boxes sitting around. Apparently they haven't thought of going to a store and asking for cardboard boxes (many stores will actually give you boxes if you ask).

For those interest, BoxCycle can help with buying and selling boxes. Show those department stores that you don't need no stinkin' boxes. True, you didn't save any of your own boxes and don't have anybody else to ask but hey, at least the internet can hook you up.

I just wonder how much a cardboard box costs? $0.50? $1.00?

Please excuse me while I water my new sod with Evian; the best sod requires the best bottled water.