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Man Selling His Life On eBay
A number of readers have sent in the story of the guy in Perth, Australia who is selling his life on eBay. 100 days before the auction opened, he put up a site detailing all that was on offer: house, car, jet ski, friends, job, and so forth. (No wife.) The auction has five days to run and the bidding is up over $300K, supposedly from qualified bidders. The seller says: "Upon completion and settlement I will walk out of my home for the last time in just the clothes I am wearing, and carrying only my wallet and passport."
Obviously not including Identity if he plans to take his wallet and Passport with him. So it's just the stuff. Better be worth the $300K.
Oh right. Sorry. Then why is this newsworthy? People have done stuff like this before. I guess I figured that if it was on Slashdot in 2008 then he must be doing something that hasn't been done before. I mean, this is Slashdot, it always covers stuff that is new and fresh.I actually thought this guy sounded pretty cool until I read the "Why" section of his site and realized that this all about a woman. Sigh. Oh to be young again. The best advice you could ever get regarding women is to not marry one until you are AT LEAST 30 years old, preferably older. By then you might be a wise enough man that a woman won't be able to destroy your life just by waving her vagina at someone new. I'm at the point in my life where virtually ALL of my friends are married and almost all of them regret it or are already divorced because they didn't realize you don't treat a woman like a princess if you want be able to live with her for the rest of your life. As an older guy (37) who has finally figured women out (took 35 years), I just have to say "When will you guys learn?" There's soooooo many women out there, but they generally don't like moody melodramatic man-boys like this guy that's selling his life on Ebay. If there's anything most women hate in a man, it's indecision and moodiness. Actually, they can handle some moodiness too, but they really hate wishy-washy indecisive people who don't know where they are going or why. However, if you as a man just worry more about pursuing your own goals in life and stay on track and actually succeed at something...anything...the woman problem will generally work itself out. It's when you spend too much time worrying about what women want you to do and not enough time worrying about what YOU want to do that you start getting into trouble. You end up being endlessly manipulated by one pretty face after another. Women just don't respect men that they can treat like bitches. I mean come on, do you respect a guy living a supposedly ideal life in a supposed paradise who decides to chuck it all over marital infidelity? My guess is that this guy spent too much time fawning over his beautiful wife and not enough time handling his bid-ness. I think he actually says something about "living a lie". Oh the horror.... pathetic. The best revenge on a cheating woman is to give so little of a shit that you are able to get on with your life right in front of her, with our without your slutty new girlfriend in the spike heels. Go be good at something. Some woman will eventually think you're cool for it and want to have sex and eventually babies. The older you get, the truer this is. Also realize that as you get older, the tables of human sexuality turn. Older women are just as horny, and they are far more desperate. In youth, women have a clear sexual advantage because men of all ages are after them. As they get older this changes...they get fatter, they get older and they realize that their pretty face just isn't getting the attention that it used to and that if they ever want someone to help them raise kids they'd better stop acting like useless primadonnas and grow up and maybe even acquire some skills that a grown man might not be able to find in a 19-year old. They realize that men their own age now have an advantage over them, that young women are still competing for the attention of the few men that are still interested in them, and as older women they are on the losing end of the competition...this is why eventually most women settle down by about age 30-32 if they haven't already revealed themselves to be psychotic alcoholics or coke-heads. This is probably the single greatest thing about male aging (possibly the ONLY good thing about male aging). I firmly believe that if women didn't get less attractive as they aged, no man would ever be happy because the women in his life would just turn into bigger an bigger bitches/sluts every year. Instead, women tend to get less attractive and nicer as they age. By about age 35 you can stop pretending they are princesses and just start behaving like normal people...you know, like your parents...or maybe not. In my experience, if you want a young, hottie, you'll either have to completely shed your jealousy and accept some level of infidelity (admit that you'd be just as big a slut if you looked as good as she does), or you'll have