MAN WILL SEND YOU DEAD LEAVES FOR 20 BUCKS

A Boston-area man is offering to ship bundles of multi-colored leaves from New England trees straight to your door for $19.99. Kyle Waring, of Somerville, Massachusetts, set up the website shipfoliage.com earlier this year and began sending his first packages of hand-picked leaves to US customers last week. Kyle offers bundles of three leaves of red, yellow and green, ranging from 3 to 6 inches in size. The leaves are preserved in a mixture of glycerin and water and shipped. He’s had over 200 sales so far. Waring came up with the idea while contemplating “seasonal monetization opportunities” with his wife. They settled on leaves, he said, because “fall in New England is especially gorgeous and really strikes an emotional chord.” Last winter, he shipped snow from Boston’s record snowfall for $89, using the website ShipSnowYo.com. He said he received requests for 718 pounds of snow from around the United States.
* Get this guy on “Shark Tank”!
* Selling leaves? What happens when he runs out?
* Sorry, three leaves is not “a bundle.” It’s barely even “a couple.” I’d call it “a few.”
* At this rate, he should have the leaves cleared off his sidewalk by about March.
* Speaking of which, I’ve got a fortune out there in the front yard right now.
* I’d really be raking it in.
* I’ll admit one thing: it is a better idea than buying snow.
* It’s an okay business but I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg has to worry about this guy’s fortune just yet.