Mix Glue and Coins to Make Floor Fortune

The Girlfriend and I generally throw all our coins into an awesome bubblegum machine we have at home. I’m hoping that someday I’ll crack it open and have enough to cruise to Cuba!

After seeing the picture below, I’m wondering if I shouldn’t rather take all the little copper coins and re-tile my balcony with the bling effect?

The image was taken in a New York restaurant and I think it looks great! For the real money shot, you could substitute 5c coins for R5 coins. Cha-ching!

THINK What R35m Will Get You in Art

The Thinker is one of the most recognizable sculptures in the world. It even has a role in the new film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

Last week one of the Thinker sculptures by French master Auguste Rodin was sold at auction for more than 3 million euros (that’s $4.2 million or R35m) in Paris. This Thinker, which is just 28.5 inches high, set a record for any of the Thinkers. It’s part of a series of 21 sculptures made by Rodin.

For those who care, it was originally meant to be part of Rodin’s Gates of Hell inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Rodin made a first small plaster version around 1880 and the first large scale bronze was presented to the public in 1904. This particular Thinker was purchased by Emile Chouanard in 1917, the same year it was cast. Another Rodin statue owned by Chouanard, “Little Eve” also sold for a record price of over 2.4 million euros at the auction.

What you think of that eh?

Continental Comfort Cuzzy!

Rest your head close to home or drift off to a far away land with this set of three continent pillows! Either way, you can rest assured with these bright and cheery cotton cushions. The set of three includes Asia, Africa and the US:

Get your set of three here for only $95.00 (about R780).

How to Hide Your Stash in Plain Sight

I can’t be the only one guilty of collecting small expensive things. So I’m always seeking a safe place to keep them – somewhere I won’t forget about myself!

You’re probably thinking “sticking it in a safe dumb-ass”! What nonsense! Where’s a thief going to look first? That’s right – your safe. Stupid. Here’s the real solution…

Hide your stash in plain sight – that’s what you need to do! So, just glue two random hardcover books together, drill out several hundred pages, and BOOM! You’ve got the perfect hiding space.

OR, you can just buy the book above and cram it full of treasure, and nobody will be the wiser! There you go!

I LOVE Gold! From a Vending Machine?

If you dont already know, I sell the shiny yellow metal for a living, but I just discovered one of these babies, threatening to put me out of business! WTF! I found this article at this cool blog called what about gold – a great resource for info on the markets.

This is the brainchild of a German asset management company and they plan to set up a whopping 500 “Gold-To-Go” ATM’s in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in under a year. These pics were taken in Frankfurt Central Station.

Satisfied customers

The product

Something gives me a feeling that this wouldnt work in good old sunny South Africa, which is good news for me!

Oscar Wilde Says

Thought for the day?

The Financial Crisis Explained

This just in from Chris. If you’re wondering why exactly the world has shifted focus from “The War on Terror” to “The Financial Economic Crisis”, then read on to shed some light…

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers – most of whom are unemployed alcoholics – to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans). Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi’s bar….

Click here to read how Heidi takes advantage of this (resulting in the crisis)

What Did Bernard Madoff Actually Do?

Basically, he told investors to give him their cash and he would invest it with a guarantee of very high returns. As he was a highly respected investor for years and knew all the right people, everyone thought he was some kind of genius…

Instead of legitimately investing their cash he would take more from someone else as an investment and then give the original investor part of that money back. He kept doing this with more and more people and had extremely high returns and A-list clients…

So more and more people kept giving him more and more money. This particular type of scam is called a Ponzi scheme (click here to find out why). But there’s one problem with it: your choices are to either get caught or disappear with the money as it can never last forever.

Forget $1 Trillion! Try $100 Trillion!

Last week we showed you what one trillion dollars looks like right? and it blew your mind! well this week I’d like to show you what one hundred trillion dollars looks like! Yes, ONE HUNDRED TRILLION

Four Bad Bear Markets

I’m a serious guy during the day when I’m not wearing my Pimp Hat. When I say serious, I use the term loosely, unlike they way I would use it referring to the financial markets. Take a look and see just how deep in shit the markets are:

Those colourful zig-zags aren’t the latest fabric patterns from Louis Vuitton! They just represent the reason a new purse will cost you 2000 bucks!

My advice? BUY GOLD!

How? ASK ME!