The idea behind send me home dot com is to provide a way for people who find lost items to return them to their owners. The owner registers the item and gives it a unique code (provided by sendmehome.com), so that when the item is lost, the altruistic person who finds it will look up the website and see how to return the item to its rightful owner.
Yeah, right.
More likely, the finder will look up the website, arrange to meet you to return the item, then burgle your house while you’re at the rendezvous.
But still, it’s an interesting idea.
However, this does not seem to be all that sendmehome.com is about. Oh no. When you visit the website, you will see that, not only is there a place to go to assign a unique code and register your item. There are also links to stories, featuring a photo of a ‘lost’ item. Except that these items are being deliberately lost, or passed on.
Items like the Travelling Geocache Logbook, described as a ‘small red logbook with a keychain ring.’ The objective: ‘…to reach each of the 50 states by travelling with geocachers and hiding in geocaches. If you find me, please post that I’ve been found…and then return me to a different geocache. Please don’t let me fall into the hands of muggles.’
O-Kay.
These items are having their stories told on the website. It is the Twitter of inanimate objects and their journeys.
Just like Murphy. Murphy disappeared from his Gloucester home one day, to return eleven months later minus his feet, but with a photo album and a bunch of stories he refused to tell. This is because he is a garden gnome.
The practice of hiving off with garden gnomes and taking them to famous places around the world is well established, especially in Australia where they are very fond of gnomes.
So, go label your stuff. Lose your garden gnome, water pistols and geocache logbook. Bring a little happiness to shine on the doom and gloom of our recession-ridden lives and write stories on the website.