Don’t pay too much!

Just after starting with Second Life, Five March discovered the ways to make money, like everyone else. Dancing and camping, brings in the first Linden dollars. The aim of camping is to attract avatars to special places. When searching on the map people tend to choose places where some people are around. So to attract people is to have people around. This is the aim of paying avatars to camp and dance. It results in a row of zombies in your place, because people are working on other things while letting their avatars earn Linden dollars.

The first thing Five bought was prim hair, for 1 L$! Later on Five found out that nearly all you need (on a material level) can be found in Second Life for free. The free things are called the freebies, really all can be discovered for no money at all: dresses, houses, animations, everything. Only for very special things you have to pay. Good shoes are not very often found free.
Nowadays, with a premium membership Five gets a weekly allowance and dancing and sitting on other premises is no longer necessary.

Five even bought expensive shoes, as you can read in another blog.
But every now and then Five goes shopping. Five is always looking for smaller shops, which appear to be try-outs, or starting designers. Here things can be found which are not common.

‘Shiny things’ is the name of a nicely built shop where Five found some jewellery, not too expensive, for instance a necklace for 35 L$. The necklace was really an exception, being worn on a very thin chain, not seen anywhere. With the prims it is impossible to construct a necklace like that. How is this made?
On another night Five was on the hunt again, and found a shop where everything costs only 1 L$.


- enkythings - L$1 SHOP is the name of this shop.
It was a surprise to find out that this same necklace costs only 1 L$ here! Other frivolous items are sold for 1 or even 0 L$! Roller skates, with a pleasant skating animation included and prime hair can be found here. Ok this prim hair is a bit stupid after a day or two, but who cares for 1 L$! Two times, you even get the 1 bug back, from a sploder!

But the price difference and the very thin shape of the necklace really still remain a mystery. Where does this necklace come from? How is it made, and what adventures has it seen? How did it lend in the hands of a 1 L$ shop?
This shop is high in the air. Down on the ground can be found a TP to a sky diving platform. Diving down, will be right through the shop, and boing on the ground: humorous signs are telling you to be carefull: falling newbies! LOL!