Did you hear the trending story about the puffy #Doritos chip? This news story caught my attention because Doritos are my guilty pleasure.
A 13-year-old girl found a “puffy” Doritos chip in her chip bag. It was not the usual, perfect, flat chip. She decided to place it on eBay. The bidding war reached about $75,000. In the end, the Australian Doritos company paid $15,000 for the girl’s “ingenuity”.
If I were to have even spotted the puffy Dorito before eating it, I may have thought, “Oh, that’s weird.” Crunch! I definitely would not have placed it on eBay.
Peculiar, huh? A puffy Dorito? A bag of Doritos a profitable investment?
How about #Beaniebabies? Many hold onto these tagged plush animals with high hopes of fetching dollars. But the money is supposedly in the errors, tag errors with misspellings, incorrect names, and dates? Those are the most valuable to the collectors.
So it gets me thinking, why are the faulty, flawed, or odd items worth the most? Is it because it makes them rare and one of a kind?
Could that apply to people too? Our imperfections make us more relatable. Our damage makes us more lovable. Our uniqueness makes us more valuable. And what makes us different makes us who we are.
Be that puffy Dorito! Be true to you and glow, or “puff” from the inside out!
Australian Teen Finds a Puffy Doritos Chip & Got Paid $14,763
