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Will the Real “Great Illinois Corn Flake” Please Stand Up?

The latest $200,444 bid for the giant Illinois shaped corn flake being offered for sale on Ebay has inspired some impostors. There are dozens of “Great Illinois Cornflake” lookalikes and related items now being offered for sale on Ebay. You can check it out by clicking on this link. You’ll find a seller offering a “Great Illinois Corn Flake T-Shirt” for $5,000,

a Great Illinois Corn Flake display frame for $24.00,

a piece of torn paper in the shape of “The Great Illinois Corn Flake” for $0.01,

and, perhaps my favorite, a very eloquent and poignant Corn Flake Sign from Illinois for $99.99.

 

PS…I admit that I actually dumped some of our corn flakes on my desk last night to see if I could find any cool and unusual shapes.  Nothing interesting…they all look the same.  Maybe we ARE onto something super special here.

Great Illinois Corn Flake Bid Surpasses $200,000.00

Well…there now appears to be a buyer willing to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars for that giant Illinois shaped corn flake on Ebay found by a Virginia girl in her box of Kellog’s Frosted Flakes. Two nights ago, there were ten bidders and the leader was at $56.00. Today, there are 31 people who are competing for the corn flake and the current winning bid is at a whopping $200,300.00. That’s “Two-Hundred-Thousand-and-Three-Hundred-Dollars.” Is this a joke? Let’s take another look at the goods because I really don’t get it:
Here it is. A corn flake, for crying out loud! I have a seller in the city who would be thrilled to get $200,300 for her condo listed in Lakeview. What about a college education? Could there possibly be a corn flake on the face of this earth as valuable? As economists weigh in daily on our so-called “Recession” and the Fed prepares today to slash interest rates, yet again. As the home forclosure rate escalates and the subprime market continues to ravage Wall Street’s biggest securities firms, WHO is prepared to pay $200,300.00 for a corn flake? It’s the million dollar question and I hope we’ll soon find out. There’s only one day, 22 hours and 1 minute left for bidding. If you want to see this for yourself, here’s the link on Ebay. Believe me, we’ll be watching.

Bids on the Rise and Time Running Out in Sale of “The Great Illinois Corn Flake”

Food prices may be escalating, but this one takes the cake and proves that there’s truly a buyer for everything.

There are now TEN bidders competing to purchase a giant Illinois-shaped corn flake being sold on Ebay by a 15-year-old Virginia girl. The winning bid tonight is a whopping $56.00!

The seller says she discovered “The Great Illinois Corn Flake” as she prepared to take a bite out of her Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. She says the flake was almost in her mouth when she plucked the edible heirloom from her spoon just in the nick of time. The flake measures two inches long by 1-and three-eighths inches wide and dwarfs a dime, according to the photo posted on Ebay.

“This is a must have item for any Illinois lover, collector of food lookalikes, or anyone who desires a unique conversation item!” The sales pitch on Ebay is to-the-point and it’s apparently working.

The seller swears the flake “has undergone no alterations” to its shape. Until they finalize the winning bid, they’ve wrapped the corn flake in cotton and placed it safely in a jewelry box with their other valuables. No word on how they plan to package the “Great Illinois Corn Flake” to protect it in the mail, but they are offering free shipping to Illinois.

If you want take a shot at purchasing “The Great Illinois Flake,” you’d better hurry up. There are only three days left to place your bid here on Ebay. But if you think you might flake out, it’s buyer beware. According to Ebay, the return policy is not specified. We’ll be sure to keep you posted.

Tags: The Great Illinois Corn Flake, Weird Ebay Items, Illinois Lovers, Foold Lookalike Collectors, Winning Bidder, Rising Food Prices, Ebay

Top 10 Ways I Convinced My Husband to Move to the Suburbs

I want to take a quick second to apologize for the recent absence of new blog posts here on BurbFeeder.com. I have achieved something monumental in the past couple of weeks that was several years in the making.

To start, let’s go back to February 2nd of 2005. It was a frigid, snowy Chicago Winter night. Too preoccupied to be cold and too rushed to be nervous, I dashed out of a listing appointment and raced to make a first date at a restaurant called Boka in Chicago. We said our “nice to meet you’s,” shared a couple of drinks and started to get to know each other. One year later we were engaged. Two years later we were married. Three years later, here we are. Within the past week, we’ve swapped our city digs for life in suburbia; the result of a major campaign on my part to convince my husband Bill that Barrington might be just as hip and happening as our old hood, Chicago’s Lincoln Square.

The task was far from easy. What could I possibly say to get a downtown dude to consent to leaving the daily city stimulants for life in the burbs? I appealed to his appetite, his pet peeves and his love of sports, of course. Here are the top ten ways I sold him on suburbia:

#10. Bike Paths and Forest Preserves - Lakefront, Shmakefront.
Who needs to dodge the running, biking and rollerblading
masses that swarm the shores of Lake Michigan?
#9. Thank You Express Train – A 45 Minute trip on the Metra will
transport us right back into the heart of the hustle and bustle.
Plus… no more long platform waits and stop-and-go commutes on
the drafty old EL
#8. Showed Him the Door – To the Basement of our New House
He always told me he wanted his own space to watch football,
keep his tools and hang is sports paraphernalia - Honey, Have at it!
#7. Goodbye Davis, Hello Catlow - Another neighborhood movie theater in our new neck of the woods
#6. Found Him a Place to Play Hoops - Signed Him Up at Good Shepherd Health and Fitness Center
#5. Wooed Him at Wool Street Grill - The closest sports bar & frosty
beverage are just a few blocks away
#4. Filled Him With Boloney at Boloney’s Sandwich Shop in
Barrington – He keeps asking me if I’m in the mood for a Sandwich
#3. Mayor Daley Made it Easier – Chicago’s Real Estate Transfer Tax
and Sales Tax are reason enough to say sayonara to the city
#2. Goebbert’s Pumpkin Farm - A great way to get our city friends to
to pile their kids in the car and pay us a Fall visit.
#1.  Hello Baby –  We found out we’re expecting our first child – just in
nick of time. Our baby is due in September and will love
the back yard and space here that would have cost so much more in any
of our favorite Chicago neighborhoods.

I sit, as I write, surrounded by unpacked boxes and giant balls of shriveled shrink wrap. The great irony is that since we’ve moved to the suburbs, business for me has picked up immensely in the city. I’m driving down there almost every day to show properties, connect with clients and check on listings. I’m happy to have so many reasons to go back. Bill is not the only one transitioning. We’re getting used to the new pace and change of scenery; new neighbors, new streets, parking places everywhere and far fewer sirens. Even a trip to good old Jewel feels a little foreign.

I’ve had so many clients who’ve made this move before me. Some who have shared my husband’s sense of major life change and even loss. It helps that we’re still so close to our favorite city and our friends. We’re settling, unpacking and adapting, one Boloney’s bite at a time.

Written by:
Liz Luby – REALTOR
The Luby Group – Coldwell Banker
Phone: 847-691-3150
Fax: 847-512-5466
Website: TheLubyGroup.com
Blog: BurbFeeder.com