Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserves
66,000 stairs. The equivalent of over 35 runs up the Empire State Building. Just short of 9 vertical miles. All in one 24 hour period.
On August 16th 2006, Jim Campbell, Indianapolis (Pike Township) firefighter/hot sauce maker/chile pepper farmer, will attempt to break the worlds’ record by exceeding those totals, all to raise money for several charities that are especially close to him. Jim Campbell is a well respected member of the chilehead community and to honor him, Blair & CaJohn have created these special reserves.
Each of these reserves is numbered 1-5 (#3 Set up for grabs in this auction) and each bottle features signatures from both Blair & CaJohn! Each collector’s bottle is sealed using a 3 colored wax combination never before used on any reserves from either of these two illustrious hot sauce manufacturers.
eBay Auctions
– Step Up for Charity Reserves – #2 Set – Sold for $1,625
– Step Up for Charity Reserves – #3 Set – Sold for $1,025
– Step Up for Charity Reserves – #4 Set – Sold for $1,125
– Step Up for Charity Reserves – #5 Set – Available Now
150 responses to “Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserves”
Nice set! 🙂
wonder who is going to end up having this on their shelf?
Yeah, these are beautiful. Man, wish I could grab a set of these.
Holy mother of sauces Batman!!!!
Nice bottles, a collectors dream !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what’s happening to sets #1,2,4,5…straight up sale or later auction?
Testing the waters. Straight up auction.
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From the auction listing (at the bottom in questions)
“Q: Hey Nick, Just wondered but will the others be up for auction or can they be bought from somewhere else as a set price? Thanks Matt
Jun-25-06
A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”
Hope that helps 🙂
And none of these are going to be offered off eBay
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There was also a question posed to Nick by someone.
Are offline offers open for negotiation. The answer was a resounding NO, there is no price for offline sales. I imagine 10grand would land you a bottle (charity wold be the reason for that 🙂 ) but they are looking for fair honest auctioning of these it sounds like so everyone has an even fair shot. Good for them to not be able to be bought!!! 🙂 of course maybe it was because I only offered a hundred bucks LOL.
Cudos to that, sucks for me 🙂 I made an offer offline chuckle
Man,… why can’t a get a nice collectors piece that isn’t equivalent to my car payment?
Wow! These are incredible bottles! It’s amazing to see Blair and Cajohn’s signatures together. Is that a first? Two great companies coming together for a cause is really cool – you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!
Very cool! Both bottles look awesome! 🙂
— Ryan
“you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!”
I don’t think anyone would drink something called “Poke”. 🙂
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Nice
So no way for Jungle Jim’s to per take in this event. I had a nice place on the firetruck for these 2 bottles. Way cool.
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oooo I’ve been quoted from ebay…lol. Does anyone want a #16 N-59 so I can put funds towards a set of these?
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sure I’ll take it off your hands Matt if you need the space.
Oh, were you asking $ for it 😉
Those look intense, probably will never see someones palates though, i was just reading about, The second richest man in the world Warren Buffet, 40 billion + is donating 85% of his monies to the Gates foundation, thats roughly 37 billion bucks, too bad, he doesnt know jim haha. speaking of which, Mr Buffet is only leaving himself with pocketchange, *cough* 3-7 billion *cough* haha
3-7 billion, pffft, that’s nothing.
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Yes- this would be a first. You also wouldn’t see Coke & Pepsi together because they are rivals, not friends doing the same thing 🙂
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I’m sure that if Jungle cared to bid, Jungle could bid 🙂 And I’d certainly be grateful 🙂
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Jim I need a place to bid not Just on Ebay. And I’am pretty sure are accounting dept has not thought about starting a paypal account. Peace Brother. Everthing good with you.
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Why not? When the accounting department does it, the look on Jungles’ face would be priceless itself 🙂
All is well. 30,000 stairs Saturday, 48 hour shift yesterday & today. More stairs tomorrow. Ahhh… doesn’t get any better than that 😛
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I was more thinking “Copsi”, but “Poke” works also! 🙂 Of course, Blajohn’s and Cajair’s don’t sound so great either 🙂
I also think BlaJohns wouldnt attract too much attention for either of them either 🙂
But the whole Poke thing works for me, could you imagine the advertising sponoffs of that name they could have fun with.
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It’d be more fun with their last names 😉
LaHard or Hardar 😛
Just Saw The Bottles Together for the first time…..Very Nice….I am proud to help Jim on his great efforts for Charity. Glad to see it is already $600. FEEL ALIVE BLAIR
You both did a wonderful job on those bottles. Very nice to the combined effort.
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Doh, what he said 🙂 I was beat to the punch and he had already said it.
Damn those bottles price is climbing fast. I can’t wait to see the end result.
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Not half as proud as I am that you’re helping! Thanks to all for the efforts, large and small.
Can’t wait to see the others!! 🙂
Great idea guys! Jim, I’m rooting for you big time. And Blair and CaJohn, you are making all us chiliheads very proud!
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I too am Proud to help my old buddy Jim, I know of NO one more deserving of this effort for all of the great things he’s done not only for chileheads, but for all he has touched. A TRULY genuine great guy. I know Blair feels the same way. This is a first as far as I know, and I’m glad to see the response! Thanks to all who are bidding!!!
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I have been working so much and doing various other things and haven’t really kept up with the goings on here:( …Blair and CaJohn, excellent job!!! the bottles are great. the 2 of you deserve many kudos for them. Jim, good luck!!
Jim I have been wondering about the stair climb thing.
It states 66,000 in 24 hours. Do you get to go for 3 hours do a bunch then take a break, get a massage type of thing then resume the efforts after consuming nutrients. Or do you have to go non stop?
I have just been wondering, seems a little tough to have to go non stop. Btu with breaks and the sports massage you were talking about might make things a little better for you I hope.
Beautiful bottles guys. You never cease to amaze me!
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I’m not sure how much time Jim will be able to take off – According to my calculations he must climb 2,750 per hour or 45.833 stairs per minute for 24 hours straight to reach 66,000 stairs in 24 hours.
Yeah its alot, however he did state that he did 30,000 yesterday (or the day before) and i dont think he was at the gym for 10 hours so i am guessing his pace is allot faster than that. However it will be interesting to see what he has to say on that. I have been wondering that (because of the specs you mention especially) for a while now.
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My understanding from the Guiness folks (Book, not beer) is that it’s simply “here’s 24 hours, how many can you do?” As such, yes- I do indeed intend to take breaks! I figure I’ve room for 4 hours of breaks and 20 hours on the machine itself. The ‘record pace’, doing the math the same as you did (just under 1/sec), is what I’m using for a ‘resting pace’. Training pace on speed days (2 hours or less like this morning ’cause I have 2 pallets of hot sauce to unload) is over 2/sec. Endurance days are at 1.75/sec (5 hours or more). If anyone is *really* interested, I’ve posted the stats on the StepUp site under the journal entries. The massage guy already has said he’d be happy to help out day of & trust me- I’ll need him 😉
Great info Jim – God Bless and Good Luck!!
Thanks Jim that is exactly what I wanted to know.
See that pair of bottles on eBay what its up to now 🙂
Looks like a nice charitable contribution there. I hope they hit a grand.
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So #3 set is on E-Bay, the other 4 sets are going to be auctioned, do we know when and where yet, so we don’t miss out on a chance to bid????
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“A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”
Hope that helps
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Glad everything is going well there jim!!!!! Can’t wait to hold the bottles from blair and john in my hands. They are way cool!!!!!!!
😉
[Comment ID #42294 Quote]what about pepsoke?
[Comment ID #42343 Quote] I think its just non stop!
Hey everyone. I’m trying to increase my funds so that I can place a healthy bid on one of these sets. If anyone is interested in either
N-59 #16
or
CaJohn’s Frostbite 4 Test bottle #7/12
then please shoot me an email (if you haven’t got it – Nick has it or I presume chrisk too and several others) and we can sort something out. If not I may put on ebay but I’m not too sure yet
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Item Title – Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserve Hot Sauces
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What happened there?
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I dunno. Got an email message like everyone else saying the auction has been pulled. *THAT* bites!!!!
Everyone – I didn’t pull it, so we are are now looking into it now. Must have been something to do with the verbage related to the charity. I’ll re-list if need be and let everyone know asap
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Wow I wonder what happened 😕
It was regarding the verbage for sur, once it is yanked you must relist it. But be very cautios on the relist because someone neds to report you regarding these violations.
err… They get reports of the violation from a viewer is what I meant.
Otherwise they would never be able to track them.
Someone care to explain to me what the violation was? Was it the “Charity” part they didn’t understand? 🙁
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Yeah, seems odd that there would be a problem with the charity aspect of the auction, but there are hundreds of Blairs and CaJohns items sold on Ebay all the time and they dont get pulled, so it does seem to point in that direction… very odd indeed 😐
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Jim – Its because your charity is not recognized by eBay. I’ll take care of it and re-list per their regs and make it happen again.
I had no doubt you’d take care of it sir. Sorry that you *have* to- no good deed goes unpunished as they say. Just found it hard to believe that with all the other stuff that gets auctioned there, they’d have a problem.
Thanks again for all your work Nick!
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Yeah, I’m surprised they pulled it as well. Some lame-o must have reported it. Everyone can expect it to go back online EOD.
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Nick, do not put “Charity” in the “title” when you list this again… When I ran the auction for Jim, I only mentioned the word “donated” within my description, but not the title. I ran into the same problem before I listed.
Lame-o indeed! I can think of a few other titles 😉 I hope the bidding goes even higher to spite whoever it was.
That is quite a LAME deal… I am sure it will all work out for the best Jim…Guess someone was mad that they weren’t winning, to complain about a great cause that the bottles were for….
eBay encourages community members to be active in supporting charitable endeavors. Because charitable fundraising is a highly regulated area subject to numerous state and federal laws, eBay has partnered with MissionFish to make charitable listing easy and has created very specific guidelines for when charitable solicitations will be allowed on eBay.
Non-MissionFish listings
1. Sellers may only list items on behalf of a charity if the charity has provided advance written consent for the solicitation. To prove that you have obtained that consent, you must include a scanned copy of the consent in the listing.
2. Sellers may only solicit on behalf of recognized 501c3 or 501c4 charitable organizations.
So basically, it means that the auction needs to be ran as a “regular” auction in order to dance around the red tape. It sucks, but it’s the only way to get around the bs.
Back in Action.
New auction here, this will run over the weekend and end on Wednesday.
Step Up for Charity Reserve Auction
Why should ebay care what you do with the money?
Can’t for the life of me see what’s different, but THANK YOU Nick, for re-doing it.
Hey Lame-o, whoever you are, please feel free to contact me for a discussion 🙂
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Not to mention all the extra money they get as the auction $ goes higher 🙁
Wow…seems I missed all the fun today. Glad its back up. I’ll refrain from posting any profanities, but to anyone that had even the slightest problem with the auction, you can go #@!% yourself and have a nice day 😀
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Well it will actually it will end next thursday not wednesday. But no big deal, just gives it longer for exposure.
I wouldnt get 100% carried away, however, it could have been anyone not just a blogger, but rather someone doing a regular search on charity, and sees something they don’t recognise and dont understand this hot sauce thing. So probably reported it out of precaution that no one was pulling a fast one. That is more likely what happened, I can not believe one of us here would do something like that. Someone might be upset it is so expensive, however, people here have come to expect it from some of the collectibles in this hobby.
Just my 2 cents worth.
If anyone feels like giving change feel free LOL.
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Now on with the conspiracies 🙂 They are fun to watch! 😀
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I will second this comment…………..AMEN to that………….
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Hey Ryan, I think you spelled #@!% wrong- did you use spell check? 😈
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Yeah you could be right, but all they had to do is check into what was going on with this auction and not go to ebay right away and complain
And didn’t the auction somewhat explain what the charity was all about, like the posting that is up now does ?????
Hey pmac there is your change (LOL)………..
There are some very anal people with a lot of distruse and jealousy, that maybe there charity efforts in a month or year do not see what this one bottle would do in a week.
Hey, I’m not saying,, I’m just sayin’… one never knows what happened. eBay sure would not reveal it i am pretty sure of that. Damn they locked my paypal once, and it took me a month to unlock it, and NEVER did i get a reason from them.
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.. 😛
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Yeah I know there are a lot of people out there like that, not disagreeing(sp?) with you. I am just giving you a little guff………..And as for ebay, they are way to big to give us little guys any reason for anything they do…
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does he ever Vic?
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Sorry Vic, I went and looked it up in Webster’s Dictionary and it is supposed to be spelled “&*!@” rather than “#@!%”…so sorry…must have been the ebonics 😛
Hey Hey Ryans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yo G I’m down
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Here Here I 2nd that ryan
[…] Brought to you by the folks over at the Hot Sauce Blog, please check out the Step Up for Charity Reserves listing that Nick posted a few days ago. Having just finished our own charity project not too long ago, we realize how important it is for the chilehead community to lend their support to charitable causes. […]
[Comment ID #42252 Quote]Think anyone ll sell them later?
Bye the way , I also post on the hot zone online too. So you can chat with me there too.
how do you do those little emotion signs?
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Right above you name in the “Leave a Comment” you will see a “Smilies” link. Just click it and it will show you all the smilies you can use.
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Goto Smilies (not sure if link will post right away)
Holy moly – $1,025 final price! (jumped right in the final 3 seconds from $770)
And the winner is $1025.00 damn d00d! 🙂
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Nick I didn’t know you were allowed to buy your own stuff, now thats a true collector who gets caught up in th action LOL!!!
j/k that is a joke for all those would be twisters of words 🙂
That last big jump took me off guard as well! Kinda figured it would be more like ‘last guy standing’ rather than the usual sniping 🙂 Thank you, thank you whoever you were! So… which set is next, Nick??
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It’s already up there…
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Dang- you’re fast 🙂
#1/5 up on eBay…. over $1000 already. Very Sweet…. man wish I could get this!
yup!
$1550 damn d00ds…There is nno glory on upping esach other 🙂 it private.
blah good grasmmer pmac. Was on phone with my help desk and got sorta tied up 😀
Morning pmac………..What’s up today ??????
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Good evening MrFreeze 🙂 sorry i missed the mornin wishes! 🙂
Busy day today. Good things all around happening. Very happy today. Work good girl good, Blogging good 🙂
Holy jumpin’ mother of pearl! $1,600 6 DAYS out??!! Unbelievable 🙂 How cool is that- they both used one of my pins for the topper. Talk about collectable! I bet no other manufacturer has put another manufacturers’ corporate logo on a bottle 🙂 I’ll never be able to repay this- either to Blair & Cajohn for doing it or for the folks shelling out the coin!
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yeah, I hear you had a good day of bottle collecting…Congrats…..Still waiting to get ahold of a special encore, someday I hope………….
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I don’t think any of us expect you to Jim…
How can we repay you for what your doing?
I guess it’s what we all do for each other.
Chileheads, what a great group!
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Hey Jim, a bottle like like that is definitely worth a pretty penny but what you are doing is priceless! Kudos to you!
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.. 🙂
Hi Jim CaJohn and kristi
Hi pmac, congrats on your score! What sort of numbers did you get?
I received #485 Blue Base #492 Red base.
There was a lower number in there too somewhere, a red one.
But the special encore made me pretty happy 🙂
ok, everyone the Firecracker list is updated, we finally reached 100 with 9 feel alives and 2 gold skulls.
Just got back in from Chicago & checked the eBay. *UNBELIEVABLE*!! Stunned is about the only word I can come up with. I will be sending Nick some gifts (eventually) to be sent along to those who purchased these.
Good job Jim you brought this to the front with your effort. Now get back to training.
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take care of that achillies, all us Chileheads will be pulling for you. Thanx again to Jim, Blair, CaJohn, Nick, and all the chileheads for all their efforts on this.
GO JIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t know anyone else that deserves it Jim, your a great guy and truly many many people see you as a hero. Thank you for all that you have/continue to do.
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GO —————————————————————————JIM
No pressure Jim, we’re all behind you. Now get some sleep! You’re up WAY past your bedtime!
definitely no pressure, 😀
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Way past my bedtime indeed 🙂 Kinda stoked though 😉 Chicago was only so-so as a show. Had fun though. Lots of people tried to tell me about this ‘other’ hot sauce guy they’d seen on TV- Kajun, KJohn or something like that. I’d just grin 🙂 There’s a few more people know what hot is now… after thinking they already knew 😉
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Well, I’m gonna give you some pressure Jim. You at least have to do more than I can do. And I figure I can make it to about 250 before I puke! LOL :puke:
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Thanks ma’am :blush: I’m not though- just trying to live up to the way I was raised.
LOL,
I am sad 🙁 I have yet to see either of you on tv, I want to record it and take it to work with me and show off that I “know” celebrities 😀 maybe when I have some time off….ehhhh whatever that is, I can watch it all day.
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Still impressive and you have an awful lot of people pulling for you.
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I’m really going to be disappointed if I don’t hit 80k to 84k. If everything lines up just right, I don’t think 100k is out of reach. Hard to say with the little set back though. Spending the reamining time trying to get the non-hotsauce world fund raising going. Knocking on doors at businesses around here day after tomorrow.
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Probably going to take at least one or two pulling *on* me day after 😛
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Jim, You must have had one helluva family! I am not going to try and convince you your a hero, I’ll let whoever it is you hand the check to do that…. but if anyone ever asks me for an example, I’ll be a name dropper 😉
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I know CaJohn has some of his taped. Sweet talk him into sending you one 🙂
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I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before the Travel chanel does something. If they can put the idiots from OCC(Ordinary Crying Children) on, then they can give the nice guys and girls that make hot sauce, they’re own show.
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My heros are the folks that make toilet paper 🙂
I definitely have the greatest parents in the world 🙂 Thanks ma’am.
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Our luck though, it’ll be Crapalacky & Original Con that get the show 😛
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you mean steps or money?
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LOL, I would sure hope not. We shoud start bombarding their site, with suggestions. And of course it won’t include any of those 2…. We should have thought of this sooner, maybe they would have covered your climb.
Holy popcorn batman, just saw the Charity bottles price……nice job whoever got them???
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did you get a set eman?
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Steps 🙂 That’d *really* be dreaming if it were money! I might add it’d be a *whole* lot more meaningful- $100k to distribute vs 100K steps 🙂
Okay- bedtime. Firehouse in the morning 🙂 Thanks again all! Best birthday in a while 🙂
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Nope,the sauce funds are depleated. Saving for a house and with Isabella, there is no extra money. I am sure I will come upon one of the sets some day.
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Wow, that’s alot more than the initial 66k steps, that’s why i was confused. well have a good one, ttyl
Have a good one Jim
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Yeah, I’m sure at least one of them will be on the market at some point. And yeah, baby is definately more important.
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It killed us not to bib on them since mrs eman is collecting CaJohns stuff…..but it’s just one of thoes things.
Did you get a set?
….sent ou a reply email
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got your e-mail and just replied. i bid on the #1 set, but went way too high for me
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Where is the big man anyway?
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He was here a little while ago.
I thought I saw him post, but he didn’t stay long,
I am off to bed
eman good luck, buying a house is huge I am sure both women in your life will really appreciate having it.
Night bigshow 😀
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Nite Mrs R……
Thanks Mrs Ryan…..time for bed
peace out y’all
(i was getting down with my bad self…yo) 🙂
well i guess i’m the only one left, so i’m outta here too….
Good early morning everybody….. just got back from the RHCP’s what a deal… Took a million pics….Just saying HI for now later……………..
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Welcome back, Mr. Freeze. Glad to see you didn’t melt in all that rain. lol
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Hey Freeze, welcome back. Shoot me an e-mail, I’m interested in your “prop”. 🙂