The Home Crowd

Fast Wrap, a Reno, Nevada company started up as a company protecting boats and recreational vehicles from the off-season winter elements by encasing them in shrink wrap.  Recently, they’ve been expanding their product base and taking on franchises nationwide.  Outdoor furniture receives seemingly the same weatherproofing that construction projects  and equipment that sits idle for a long time.

The new idea however, is wrapping unsold and/or foreclosed homes almost entirely in shrink wrap, protecting them from the elements without the care of a tenant, and possibly deterring vandalism.  Any vandals that want to get past the shrink wrap would likely only need a pocketknife or scissors, but nonetheless, it’s a nice deterrent from vandals out to strip a foreclosed home of the copper wiring…or worse.

Here’s a link to FastWrap’s site, in case you’re looking to ‘hole up’ for the winter, or possibly get in on the franchise action. – Link

Spotted at CNN Money – Link

There was a time, shortly after graduating college when the idea of just packing up the car one day and moving from sunny California to the east coast.  But what to do with all my stuff.  At the time I had a bulky desktop computer, alot of furniture, TV’s, and tons of junk.  Who’d want to move that?  No, sell it, give it, toss it in a dumpster if necessary.

Start over, start clean.  But that takes time, lotsa shopping, and lots of lost weekends searching for the next great coffee table.  Seems like this might be a good product for those brave enough to just go off the grid, leave in the middle of the night, take their clothes and pictures, and leave town with a full tank of gas.

Although it’s just a concept from the designers at Casulo, based out of Germany, it seems as though this would be a great product for those sending the kids off to college (not in furnished dormitory housing), or just someone who needs to relocate and have the basics until they’ve replenished their living environment piece by piece.

(From Casulo via eUpgrader)