We reached the end goal of offices officially on 9th January 2024. 6421 days after I started with one single matchstick. And then all the items were delivered by 14th February 2024. Now we are on the search to find the start-up entrepreneur who will get to use the office space. To back track a bit:- my strategy was to work backwards from the office space, to trade back down to my 12th trade, (which was the 3 boxes of…
Do you remember when I won a prize and it was to create “onematchstick, the Movie”? It tells the story up to my tenth trade for the Tshirts. Here is the backstory on the prize. And so I thought to show you the movie here, as it was such fun making it! Here is the trailer: And here is the Movie: And then I hosted two premier events – one in Johannesburg, and one in Cape Town. Leave a comment…
My Current Trade is: 3 Boxes of Tech for an Off the Grid Lifestyle I traded the WONDERboom private rock concert with Rene and Nina for 3 boxes of gear and gadgets – lots of goodies that will take you off the grid! (READ more about this here). Here’s what I’m offering: >>DOWNLOAD the PDF of all the tech in these 3 boxes here Change your stagnant, office-bound life for a more mobile, flexible lifestyle with these three bundles of gadgets (all tech in…
After my 8th trade I ended up with a party of the century, with DJ Al. I got 2 offers for the party before I traded – one for cash, the other was a tweet from Eric asking how many of his designer Tshirts would it take for him to get the party. 117 days after that tweet, I woke up at 2am with an idea that lead to me shaking Eric’s hand and meeting Eran – the two behind…
After finishing my epic 2 year 1 month and 18 day long Springleap T-shirt trade on 22 September 2011 – I had some recouperating time (and delays in getting my final cash lumpsum from Springleap! Remember – they facilitated the trade between me and the 216 people I traded the Tshirts with). I then called up Cito in Janary 2012 and asked if he and WONDERboom would like to be a part of onematchstick. After a few days he and the band came back…
I got 34 offers for the hot air balloon flight, and the list included: websites, graphic design services, SEO services computers, phones dental work! Yes a whole jaw reconstruction paintings a collector’s coin and a stamp a solar geyser photo shoot dinner and cash (again! Ranging from R500 to R2000). I had the most fun on the 702 interview receiving offers, and after researching so many of the offers, I decided to trade with DJ Al Your Pal (he’s now…
My sixth trade ended up being for R3000 cash. I was reluctant to trade for cash, but Gaynor and Gerald insisted that they only had money to offer, and I thought then that it might be an interesting experiment. Also, I hadn’t had another offer that seemed right for the holiday. I had been offered a box of matches (haha!), another bottle of alchohol, Juvio software, and a jar of jelly beans. So then when the two people I traded…
So in 98 days I turned the matchstick into a holiday! Claire tell’s the story of how our trade came about so well in our recap. And I was surprised to hear that the two people who got the holiday, didn’t ever take up the holiday! Ha! For the wine, I had been offered : a local flight in South Africa, an electric frying pan, and a carpet (that turned out to be a biological experiment in fungi growth!). And…
After my sixth trade for R3000 cash, the experiment began. And what a learning curve! I learnt that you can’t barter with cash… dooh! Because the value is so specific and agreed upon by society, it was difficult to barter up in value. So many of the 118 offers (yes, I was made the most offers for the cash) were for exactly R3000, sometimes even less! And very rarely for more. The offers included the following: so much tech! From…
So far we know my goal is for office space to help startup entrepreneurs. I started with a match, traded it for a pen, then a frog, and the frog for 2 books. I then traded those two book with Nick for 2 case of First Sighting Wine – a total of 18 bottles! I got to catch up with Nick, and we spoke about why he made me the offer, where the books are now, and also learnt about…
