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Toothbrush Holder

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Terese Svoboda, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $15.50.] You are fitting it in between the toilet paper and the shaver accessories, on top of the wart remover and the nose hair clippers. You say, tentacles for moon-people — this is where they store them. Prehensile [...]

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Round Box

Monday, September 14, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tim Carvell, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $35.] On December 17, 1948, the Humboldt twins entered the world, Jerome screaming, Luke laughing. This pattern held. Jerome grew up to be as petulant, difficult and miserable as Luke was cheery, optimistic and polite. Their father, Max, [...]

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Elvis Chocolate Tin

Friday, August 21, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jessica Helfand, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $24. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] Harriet squeezed the last flecks of lemon pulp into her Diet Pepsi and thought about all the men who had [...]

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Golf Ball Bank

Monday, July 20, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Todd Pruzan, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $14.50.] The worst thing is: he sees the golf-ball bank two, maybe three full minutes before it breaks his nose. It’s sitting right there on the table, in full view of the whole room, next to a tiny [...]

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Piggy Bank

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Matthew De Abaitua, has closed. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $15.50] My Daddy shouts at me when I go near the piggy bank, and he screams when I turn it upside down. So l leave the piggy bank alone and tell my baby brother and sister to [...]

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Pen Stand

Friday, July 10, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Lizzie Skurnick, has closed. Original price: $1. Final price: $11.50.] When I was four I thought it was a periscope, or what I thought at the time was called a periscope. My father in fact owned a number of such items — tooth-stained daguerrotypes, box cameras with [...]

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