Monday, September 13, 2010
All my life for Sale
I thought that "All my life for Sale" was a really interesting personal essay and I really enjoyed reading it. It just wasn't one of those boring class assignments you usually get assigned, due to the fact that it was something completely different and was something that I have never read before. I have never heard of someone selling all of the items that they own on an online website. In today's world people are using the internet to sell items way more than they used to. When I was younger the internet wasn't a huge thing and more people would have garage sales to get rid of unwanted items. Today you see more people going on such sights as Ebay or Craigs list to sell items faster and easier because they don't want to take the time out to have a garage sale. I mean who wouldn't want to do that? Its a faster and easier method than throwing together a garage sale and taking all the time out of your day to have it. For me I tend to keep a lot of older stuff around the house because it reminds me of my childhood or important times in my life and I would never get rid of it. I think its a good idea to keep certain items as you grow up because it serves as a memory that you can keep and tell anyone you want about it or pass it down to your kids in the future. One thing I couldn't imagine doing is being like Freyer and selling all of my belongings as he did and then going to almost every buyers house to visit. That really would take a lot of time to do and I wouldn't want to take the time out of my life and money doing that. I do give a lot of credit to him for following through with what Freyer started and not giving up on it.
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Yes - visiting the buyers was definitely an atypical thing to do.
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