Word: wheelbarrows
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...flattening salaries--which makes the real estate game more relevant than ever. (HGTV has practically become a financial channel, with shows like Designed to Sell, Buy Me and My House Is Worth What?) We've moved from a manufacturing to a service economy, and the white-collar icons--bye, wheelbarrow, hello, laptop--seem aimed at the buyer willing to shell out $29.99 ($10 or so more than the old edition...
...offer is too low. Sometimes there's a bit of to-and-fro in the bidding, such as on a freezer chest that eventually fetches $620. But often any bid will do. A chair goes for a buck. A tarpaulin, a wheelbarrow, a birdcage, a garden sprayer and a chainsaw that doesn't work each fetch a pittance-but for the owners, the point is they're gone. Bidders have traveled as far as 25 km on the hunt for a bargain...
Through the late-afternoon sun shower, it hovers on the horizon: a fluoro-red-eyed monster, or a UFO. Then, as the rain clears, the strange beam of light becomes the reflector shield of a high-tech wheelbarrow being pushed along the Nullarbor by a tanned young man wearing a blue bandanna and a welcoming smile. "Every day I get at least two offers for a lift," says Matt Shaw, 32. "People are always stopping; I guess it breaks up the journey a bit for them." In the past 57 days, Shaw's journey has rarely stopped for long...
...Keeping a brisk pace, the wheelbarrow pusher has covered a staggering 58 km a day so far-traveling faster than the Gladesville postal worker Nobby Young, who at 44 km a day over 365 days, set a record pace for circumnavigating Australia in 1994. But the very Zen-like Shaw would seem to be in no real hurry to return to Ringwood. "Back on the Nullarbor," he says, of the limestone plateau he's just crossed, "you can hear the bark peeling off the trees. It's amazing-it's just that quiet. You become part of the land...
...unreasonable for a woman in labor to be taken to a hospital in a wheelbarrow," says Andrea. "A motorcycle will do that job beautifully, and if you run it properly, it will last five years...