Have you ever wanted to leave everything behind, your house, your job, even your clothes and your friends, and go away with nothing but your passport and a pile of money? Well, that’s what this man is attempting to do.
By “selling his life on E-Bay” - to be more precise, selling all his belongings, Ian Usher, an Englishman in Australia, wishes to let go of his past life, laden with memories of his ex-wife, and move on.
He’ll even introduce you to his friends and offer you his (incredibly boring) job. Yipee, I say..
He is advertising “a house and all its contents, a car, a motorbike, a jetski, kitesurfing gear, a great lifestyle, a group of friends, even a job! Absolutely everything I have, I take nothing with me”.
Now you can justly think that it’s either a romantically naïve idea; or that it’s completely immature.
You can also smirk that - if this guy believes his life sucks, why would anyone want it?
The most interesting about it though is that selling his belonging = selling his “Life”. I find it sad that he believes that his life is only defined by his belonging - and even more so that an E-Bay auction can deliver him from his miserable existence.
Even more so that this guy’s life is barely worth $200,000, the closing price of the bid. Which means that every year of his life is worth $4545.
I’m almost tempted to buy a year, just for the fun...
3 comments:
Maybe you can buy a week here and a week there - sort of like a timesharing arrangement.
Not sure I want to see him walk out of his house for the last time, completely naked (having sold all of his clothes - used underwear, eeeuuuu!), carrying a pile of money and a passport. Not sure I'd want to be touching that money either, once he's clutched it tightly to his, ummmm, person. No question at all as to where that money's been...
Eeew for the visual!! :-P
Then again it is a funny sight to imagine -- him running out of home naked, with a pack of cash, his passport, and running through the streets with arms high up screaming "I'm FREEEEEEEEEEeeeee"...
Only to be caught by the police and thrown in jail for indecent exposure.
Indecent exposure? I'd say that might depend on how much money he's made and how strategically placed it is.
Note to self: Never touch Australian currency again...
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