Positivebalance of karma, based on you doing something helpful or positive for someone else without the person having the opportunity to return the gesture, either due to circumstances or because such returns are declined.
1)A: Hey dude, here's the notes I took from the lecture you missed yesterday.
B: That's great! How can I return the favour?
A: Well you can blow me, otherwise just chalk it up on my karma credit.
2)A: Man I must have quite a karma credit now for taking one for the team being the fall guy.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.