Wednesday WTF

What Will $1M Get You in Portland? Sports and Beers, Apparently

By Bethany Erickson / February 6, 2019 /

This week’s Wednesday WTF, folks, is a reader submission — a glorious abode in Portland, Oregon that’s either going to be something you love, or something you absolutely hate. I know I say this a lot, but every week, I think, “This is gonna be the week where I don’t find anything weird in the…

Questionable Choices Plus CandysDirt Staff Equals This Wednesday WTF

By Bethany Erickson / January 30, 2019 /

It started with one photo of questionable design acumen showing up in my Facebook feed. Of course, I had to show it to my coworkers, I mean, have you been here before? Getting my coworkers to react to the things I find while looking for the Wednesday WTF is like 22.3 percent of the fun…

Someone Paid $3.5M For A Very Big Hovel in Canada

By Bethany Erickson / January 23, 2019 /

So, in the course of finding this week’s Wednesday WTF, I had three options. One was really nice, one was really charming and whimsical, and one was none of those things because it’s a Canadian hovel. Guess which one I picked? Yeah. The hovel. Maybe you’ll get really nice or really charming and whimsical next…

The One Where You Get Caught Drinking from a Pringles Can

By Bethany Erickson / January 16, 2019 /

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and they must be right, because one Wichita Falls hero found a new use for a Pringles can that has the entire Internet abuzz. I mean, no less than 50 people messaged or emailed me links to this story, so you know it was ripe for…

It’s Wednesday, So Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

By Bethany Erickson / January 9, 2019 /

For this week’s Wednesday WTF, we’ve found a listing that is a bit of a time warp, again. Now, we’re not afraid of a house that time forgot, I mean, we wrote about three last year. And we never cease to be amazed at a listing where nothing has changed in more than 40 years.…