[Fayeth]

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SYDNEY, Australia (March 18) - A painful breakup with his wife has prompted a man to put his entire life - his house, his car, his job, even his friends - up for sale online in an effort to start over.

Photo courtesy of Ian Usher A Life for Sale
5 of 5 When Usher walks out of his house -- did he mention it has a hot tub? -- for the last time, he plans to go wherever fate takes him. "My current thoughts are to then head to the airport, and ask at the flight desk where the next flight with an available seat goes to, and to get on that and see where life takes me from there," he wrote. Source: AP

Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, said Tuesday he would auction everything he owns and more on e-Bay starting June 22.

"On the day it's all sold and settled, I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all," Usher says on his Web site.

Up for bid is Usher's three bedroom house in the western city of Perth and everything inside it, his car, motorcycle, jet ski and parachuting gear.

Usher says he is also selling a one-time introduction to his friends and a trial run at his job - a plan endorsed by his friends and his employer.

In media interviews on Tuesday, Usher said he wants a fresh start after realizing that most things in his current life remind him of the relationship he had with the wife of five years whom he broke up with more than a year ago.

"Everything that I have - the furniture in the house - all has memories attached to it," Usher, 44, told Seven Network television. "It's time to shed the old, and in with the new."

Usher said his life will be sold in one lot, and that bidders should expect to pay more than $390,000, which is the upper end of a realtor's valuation of his house that he has posted online.

Joy Jones, who co-owns the rug store in Perth where Usher worked as a shop assistant, said she liked the auction idea and wanted to help out. Joy Jones Rugs is offering the successful bidder a two-week trial, which could be extended for three months and then become permanent if it works out.

"When Ian came with this idea - because we had seen him go through a breakup of marriage and pain and bits and pieces - I thought it was really exciting," Jones told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "We thought, why not give it a go?"

Usher said his friends in Perth had also proved willing to be introduced to the highest bidder - allowing him to advertise his auction as offering a complete lifestyle.

Usher, who was born in Darlington, England, planned to open the auction at noon Perth time on June 22 and accept the last bid exactly one week later.

He said he hopes to set off traveling, including a visit to his mother in England, as soon as the auction is over.

"My current thoughts are to then head to the airport, and ask at the flight desk where the next flight with an available seat goes to, and to get on that and see where life takes me from there," he wrote online.


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You guys should see the photo gallery of his house. He has a NICE house. Hot tub.. big screen tv, really nice layout. His Jet ski, motorcycle, everything... GoGo Ebay?

[Dez]

The phrase "no life" comes to mind.

[Casket]

Pathetic.

[Endrance]

Why not? Although I wouldn't have sold it via ebay and the way his situation was described sounds kinda frivolous, it's his own decision to do so. It's not entirely giving up and he's leaving no one behind. It's just a new beginning.
There are people who give their whole life up and willingly crawl in despair and that, Mr. Casket and Mr. Dez, is pathetic and having no life. He's had the courage to begin over again and it shows that he's not a very materialistic person, which makes him rather sympathetic to me.

[Yakuzan]

Anyone wants to buy me? The bid starts at 1 million and you have to sign this invisible contract.

[Dez]

No life, as in by selling his life he won't have a life anymore, wasn't meant as offensive. Still it's kinda pathethic, selling your wife and friends? you can't sell that, and what kinda person does that. Those friends he has, and that wife, agreeing to get him replaced by someone random.. *confused*

If your life is a mess you should try to "fix" it, or leave everything behind peacefully. You could always crawl in despair as well, in the end something good might come of it.

[Endrance]

Dez said:

No life, as in by selling his life he won't have a life anymore, wasn't meant as offensive. Still it's kinda pathethic, selling your wife and friends? you can't sell that, and what kinda person does that.

There's no information about him selling his wife. I also find the selling friends part weird but well... maybe they sucked and were mobbing him or something... why not put them on ebay for a little joke? lol
Well, I don't know about that and yea, that's indeed weird, but then again, I don't really care and I don't know enough to judge it pathetic.

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If you're life is a mess you fix it, or you crawl in despair.

That's false. Sometimes it's impossible to fix a life and often it's not worth to fix it. If that's the case, then starting all over is not a shame and rather the opposite of crawling in despair. If there's even just a small chance of fixing it, of course then youre right, it should at least be tried. That's about it in general. I don't know about this specific person's situation in detail, so I can't honestly say, neither have I the option to judge.

[Latitude]

i think i heard of this a long time ago... - couldn't stop laughing lol thought it was a joke at 1st

[Yakuzan]

Oh , it reminds me of the girl who sold a sex session with her for an epic flying mount in WoW lol.

[DemonXaphan]

Yakuzan said:

Oh , it reminds me of the girl who sold a sex session with her for an epic flying mount in WoW lol.

Now that i can believe.

[Griever]

Dez said:

No life, as in by selling his life he won't have a life anymore, wasn't meant as offensive. Still it's kinda pathethic, selling your wife and friends? you can't sell that, and what kinda person does that. Those friends he has, and that wife, agreeing to get him replaced by someone random.. *confused*

He broke up with his wife, that is the mainreason for his actions.(he can't sell his wife, if he hasn't got one)
He wants to start from the beginning so he needs money etc. best way is to sell your house and everything.
He isn't selling his friends, he sells a one time introduction to his friends.

[Casket]

Griever said:

He broke up with his wife, that is the mainreason for his actions.(he can't sell his wife, if he hasn't got one)

I'm glad some one else caught onto this.

[Birdman]

Dez said:

No life, as in by selling his life he won't have a life anymore, wasn't meant as offensive. Still it's kinda pathethic, selling your wife and friends? you can't sell that, and what kinda person does that. Those friends he has, and that wife, agreeing to get him replaced by someone random.. *confused*

If your life is a mess you should try to "fix" it, or leave everything behind peacefully. You could always crawl in despair as well, in the end something good might come of it.

Maybe you're confused because you didn't actually read the article. It is repeated that he no longer has a wife maybe 3 or 4 times. As for the friends part:

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Usher says he is also selling a one-time introduction to his friends and a trial run at his job - a plan endorsed by his friends and his employer.

He's trying to start again, he isn't happy with what he's got. That takes some serious balls. It sounds really exciting, I wish him the best.

[Kyero]

Wow, that's a pretty big move. Giving up all your stuff and starting over...

Ah well, hopefully it works out for him.

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"On the day it's all sold and settled, I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all," Usher says on his Web site.

It would suck of he got mugged on the way to the airport. =P

[JunSakurada]

lol, the part about him selling his possessions is okay but a one time introduction to his friends and his job even? its just weird

[thecool444]

He is crazy. Must be really depressed.

[Sabre]

I think it's really cool lol...I'm sure the bidders are in the same state as he is. It's hard to put yourself in his shoes, but if your life was so miserable because everything reminded you of a failed marriage and your life had nothing new in it anymore, I'd do the same thing, start fresh somewhere else. He's just being creative with it. I think it's sweet :D

[Dez]

birdman said:

Maybe you're confused because you didn't actually read the article. It is repeated that he no longer has a wife maybe 3 or 4 times. As for the friends part:



He's trying to start again, he isn't happy with what he's got. That takes some serious balls. It sounds really exciting, I wish him the best.

Or maybe I just mixed it up, he's selling his friends anyway. It's still a odd way to start over, not really cool at all.

[Fayeth]

Well he must have been really broken up about it since his friends and work all agreed to go along with it, they must think it's for the best was well. Some times you can't just "fix" your mistakes so this is his way of moving on... i agree with birdbrain... it does take some balls to just leave everything like that.

[Birdman]

Dez said:

Or maybe I just mixed it up, he's selling his friends anyway. It's still a odd way to start over, not really cool at all.

How do you "mix" up something that it clearly repeats over and over in the article, lol.

It's not really selling his friends, his friends probably asked him if how they could help, so he the "one-time intro" is probably just to get in some extra cash. I find it hard to believe that the one time intro thing wont be completely awkward and end up being the "only-time intro" the buyer and the friends will ever have.