Leading By Example - 1.5 LBS Of Recycled Legos Sold From The USA To AUSTRALIA For 515 STEEM

Hopefully this transaction won't turn into a Bitcoin for pizza meme in 5 years.

After my first post aiming to sell some curb-recycled goods for Steem, a courageous Steemian sent me 515 Steem in exchange for this 1.5 pound batch of Lego minifigures and accessories. This is exactly what I was hoping for as motivation to try to do this again, plus as a model for others to break the ice.

I win, he wins, the environment wins, and Steem wins.

@brickmanbrad is now a Steem LEGEND in my book as my first crypto-paying customer. After starting with a smaller set in my last post, we upped the ante with a larger batch to justify the international shipping expense. I sent him the pic below to show some of the lot, leaving many as a mystery at his request. We settled on a fair price and he sent the Steem to my wallet. MAGIC!

For entertainment, and so I find out if I passed along any rare pieces, he's going to do an unboxing post as a Lego expert. I hope people can upvote the heck out of it to reward him for his good faith. That's what the rewards pool should be for... using Steem...not taking from Steem. Most impressively, Brad's Lego business website already advertises that it accepts Steem for purchase, so check it out on his profile page. He's early in the ball game, but this precisely the type of person we need more of.

We have enough people ambitiously bloging and vlogging about conceptual ideas, but it's about doing things in real life to pave the way.

The haul he's bracing for:

Plus the original starting set:

Yes, all of these were found and salvaged for FREE from my city's curb recycling.

Touchdown:

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Ironically, minutes after he messaged me today about being ready to send over the funds, I found ~8 pounds of loose Legos and more minifigures/accessories in the recycling. The Law of Attraction, or the Cryptoverse giving a sign that I'm on the right track?? Maybe so.

The point here is that it's not that hard to leverage Steem, rapport with others, reputations, and value exchange via Steem applications to conduct peer-to-peer transactions. You don't need an elaborate system or platform. Keep it simple. Buy and sell using Steem. One example at a time.

Yes, a bit of trust is involved in exchanging some personal info, but at some point, we need to be practical to open up more day-to-day use of this blockchain. There are smart ways to go about it. Most of us give banks tons of info about ourselves, and many already feature their personal lives on the blockchain, so this might not be that crazy.

There aren't a lot of active Steemians these days, but if we set examples of successful goods and services exchanged for Steem, others will ultimately feel more comfortable about doing the same to get the snowball rolling.

As I just crossed 6,000 Steem from organic blogging and curating before his transfer (since I only wanted to earn my Steem), I guess this tranche was technically "earned" in a way I hadn't considered much before. Perhaps I can expand upon this if more people use Steem in more robust ways outside of farming from the reward pool.

Brad bought the Steem for this with fiat. This is how we increase demand and raise the price.

And I got Steem for recycling.

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Anyone looking for anything interesting in the household/collectible space I can see if I have available or keep an eye out for? I find so many random odds & ends on top of common items. Put me to the test!

@steemmatt

P.S. Packaging materials for this shipment will also be curb-recycled to minimize our carbon footprint.