How much is your entire life worth? Your home, your car, your job, your friends, your lifestyle. Just as a guess, what price would you put on it? Priceless? Maybe not.
A man in Australia recently sold his for approximately $400K.
Seriously.
The person who purchased it has his three-bedroom house, his 19-year-old Mazda, a motorbike, a boat, his job as a rug salesman, and an introduction to his friends. Apparently, the man realized that after a divorce, his entire life reminded him of his ex-wife. His solution? Start a new life from scratch and sell his old one on E-Bay.
Apparently, this is legal.
Which has got me to thinking. . . .
How much is my life worth on the open market?
Let’s see. . . .
I’m a graduate student - so the buyer would have the opportunity to try out the academic life and relive his/her time as a student. Limitless lattes and reading of highly intellectual books. Good conversations about “things that really matter” throw in for good measure. Heated debates over whether or not Foucault is still pertinent.
I’m getting married - but I’m not sure how my future husband would feel about a stand-in bride. Especially if a male won the bid.
I’m a writer - and the person could take credit for my novel and my articles. That’s something. I could change the author’s name on the book. That’s neat.
I have a ton of clothes, shoes and jewelry.
And two adorable cats. I can’t forget them.
And my friends - scattered all over the world. Perhaps they could host the new me in cities like New York and Hong Kong and Dublin.
What’s all that worth? $400K? Or less?
What a crisis it would put someone in to know that their entire life was only worth $12,650, more or less. Wouldn’t that suck? To know that other people thought your life was too boring to buy? Or too sad? Or too weird?
The man - who lives near Perth, I think - told the BBC that he “has no regrets”. The money will allow him to travel for awhile, and to fulfill his list of things to do. Then, I suppose, he will settle down again and build up another marketable life somewhere. If it’s on an island and he sells 10 years from now, I’m maxing out my credit card. You can bet on it.
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i dont think anyone would want to buy my life