Girl Buys $700, 40-lb. Cheese Wheel from Italy (Unique)

• Elise Osafo was impressed by one other TikTok creator to purchase a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano from Italy
• 4 days later, a $700, 40-lb. half-wheel of cheese was in her house
• Osafo is documenting moments like these on her TikTok as a part of her ‘100 Why Nots’ sequence 
• Her cheese wheel video went viral, amassing greater than 700,000 views

Generally, it’s essential to ask your self, “Why not?” when making selections. Elise Osafo requested herself this when she purchased a 40-lb. half-wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano from Italy for $700. It took solely 4 days from the cheese to journey from Italy to her house in California. 

Osafo discovered inspiration from one other creator on TikTok who purchased a cheese wheel to recreate the expertise of being served pasta in a cheese wheel in Italy. Osafo researched after which determined she would purchase the wheel herself, asking, ‘Why not?’ 

“I’ve a listing on my cellphone of so many random issues I need to do. I assumed the very first thing I will do is get this cheese,” Osafo tells PEOPLE solely. “As a result of why would not I need to have that cheese in my house? That is the way it got here to be in my possession.”

Osafo has already used her cheese wheel twice: as soon as to make an alfredo pasta; the opposite to host a pasta celebration along with her mates. They made a number of recent pasta and sauces after which lit the cheese wheel on fireplace to get pleasure from it like one would tableside at an Italian restaurant. She’s earned greater than 700,000 views on a TikTok concerning the expertise.

“With the cheese wheel, particularly, it has been a number of enjoyable bringing my mates round to expertise this collectively,” Osafo shares. “It is only a enjoyable approach of being part of my neighborhood and attending to share and revel in collectively.”

Osafo has till June 8 to make use of up all of the cheese earlier than it goes unhealthy. Till then, she plans on making completely different pastas and persevering with to share along with her mates.

Her cheese wheel buy is the primary half in her sequence about ‘100 Why Nots,’ during which she paperwork 100 issues she does after asking herself, “Why not?” 

“It is based mostly on the mindset that I’ve that I really feel like life is supposed to be enjoyable and thrilling, and I believe we are supposed to do the enjoyable, little bizarre issues that we’d discover attention-grabbing,”  Osafo shares. 

“As a result of why would not you need to expertise that pleasure? Or accomplish that aim? Or, you already know, no matter it must be. It may very well be an enormous factor or easy little issues the place it is like, why not?”

“I obtained a tattoo in Amsterdam two years in the past, and it says, ‘Why Not?’ That phrase has guided all my decisions in my grownup life, like deciding to turn into a content material creator, deciding to go to regulation college, deciding to pursue my completely different pursuits and the various things that I’ve accomplished — it is all been this ‘Why not?’ mindset,” Osafo recollects. 

Osafo likens it to a bucket listing, and hopes to encourage different individuals to comply with.

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“Life is actually meant to be made up of all these foolish, enjoyable selections that you may at all times look again on,” Osafo shares. “I believe depriving your self of these issues makes issues just a little more durable. I might like to encourage individuals to permit themselves to have the enjoyable that they need, in no matter approach which may manifest. Simply strive it out.”

“I am out right here, dwelling my life, having enjoyable whereas doing it, and I hope that the content material that I make can, similar to, spark pleasure,” she provides. “I hope it will probably make individuals’s day just a little bit higher and simply encourage individuals to reside their greatest life as a result of that is all I am attempting to do.”