Thrillist Nation
Emailed in a LIST on: Thursday April 5, 2007The List
Travel: Auto Driveaway
Drive cross-country for nothing but the cost of gas and NoDoz: check the list of other peoples' vehicles available for pick-up/drop-off at 45+ US locations, plan an itinerary (anything goes so long as you arrive by the agreed-upon delivery date), and strike out on your journey to visit every Lynyrd Skynyrd gravesite.
Find cars at AutoDriveaway.com
Services: NetHaggler
This (PC-only) toolbar download alerts you every time items you've "tagged" go on sale. More amusingly, you can send sellers counter-offers and haggle like an Asian grandma bargaining for a sack of frogs.
Browbeat sellers at NetHaggler.com
Food: Top Secret Recipes
If an arbitrary aversion to rat feces is keeping you away from KFC, make their fare at home with this brand-name product recipe trove, which features everything from McNuggets to Slurpees. Most of the food cloning instructions are for sale, but some, like Girl Scout Thin Mints, are free -- so you can run those insipid cherubs out of business with your cut-rate Thin Mants.
Steal chains'/brands' recipes at TopSecretRecipes.com
Services: Jungle Crazy
This site culls all deeply discounted Amazon items (70% off or more). Each listing links directly to the 'Zon, so you can instantly snap up that $3 iPod case, $2 Swiss Army knife, or $1 indentured manservant.
Save more than 70% off Amazon items at JungleCrazy.com
Services: JunkDepot
A $25 "gently-used" sofa is only as good as your friendship with the weightlifter needed to carry it is strong. So, find/sell furniture, tools, soda vending machines, etc, with this Craigslist-cum-Google Maps mashup that'll show you the exact distance you'll have to haul that spine-crunching hassle you're about to curse yourself with.
Get/sell home furnishings and tools at JunkDepot.com
