Fairy Godmother? Is that You?
Make a wish
Post your wish on www.WishUponAHero.com and you may find yourself asking that very question. WishUponAHero.com is a social networking site founded by a New Jersey marketing executive that allows users to post their wishes online for all to see. Then fellow users try to play hero and get the wish granted.
I read about the site in the Monday (1/26) Star-Ledger (thanks to Greg who put it on my desk!), but I didn’t get around to actually checking it out until today. I have to admit the story in the paper about the woman who wished for a new refrigerator and within a week had a gleaming new Whirpool model in her kitchen really intrigued me. After only two minutes clicking around on the site, I was hooked and convinced I could be everyone’s hero. You’ve got to see it to believe it! It really lifts your spirit to even read about all the wishes being granted – big and small. Read more below and then after the jump…
With money already tight, Nancy Mitchell was facing a trifecta of household disasters: In the space of a few weeks her dryer, refrigerator and car all died.
With no cash for a major purchase, the mother of six turned to WishUponAHero.com and posted her wish for a new refrigerator. Within a week, a gleaming new Whirlpool model was in her Burlington County kitchen.
“Every time I go in the kitchen I find myself hugging it,” said Mitchell, 53. “I was so thankful.”
Mitchell is one of more than 23,000 people who have had their wishes — both big and small — granted thanks to WishUponAHero.com. The social networking site, founded by a New Jersey marketing executive, allows users to post their wishes online for all to see. Then fellow users try to play hero and get the wish granted.
In the 16 months since its founding, the site’s mostly anonymous users have found Hannah Montana concert tickets for desperate parents, reunited estranged siblings, arranged medical care for sick children and granted a World War II veteran’s wish to return to Pearl Harbor one last time.
The WishUponAHero site was launched in 2007 and the first wish — a plea from a woman who was too broke to buy new tires for her car — was quickly granted. Since then, more than 37,000 wishes have been posted and more than 60 percent have been granted.
The site is similar to Craigslist and other listing sites. Wishers post their want or need. Then, potential heroes can e-mail or contact the wishers directly if they think they can help.
