All Of My Life For Sale

John Freyer's story about selling all his stuff on ebay was very eye-opening. It really made me think about all the random things that I've collected over the years and keep away in my closet or laying around my room, and how unimportant they really are. When I was first reading the story all I could think about was how crazy he was for selling all of his stuff and how I could never do that. Once I really got into the story i realized how I was thinking so superficially. This story is one that forces people to stop and think about our world and how materialistic and superficial we have all become. There is so much more to life than our random little possessions that we cared about for a week and now keep in our basements. It might seem so un-rational to just sell all of your stuff like that but the experience he went through, the trips he took, and memories he made are all things that he will remember forever, he won't remember that toaster he sold. I really liked how he went and visited the people he sold his items to that just makes the whole process a lot more interesting and worth it. He gave up a lot but gained so much more.

I think that George Carlin has a similar viewpoint as Freyer in his "A Place for My Stuff" segment. He sees people's possession's as "stuff" nothing more nothing less. Everything tangible in our lives has a relationship to our "stuff". Everything is either our stuff, or it stores our stuff, or it is used to get our stuff, move it around, present it in some way, even our house is just a place to hold all of our stuff. I agree with his theory for the most part I never really thought about it like that it definitely makes you think. I think that Freyer eventually thought of his possessions as nothing more than just stuff and that helped him to be able to get rid of it and focus on the real things in life.