Wednesday, January 26, 2011

All my life for sale

Reading Freyer's All My Life for Sale, I wasn't really sure if I sympathized with Freyer in the beginning of the story. When the story started, it basically seemed like Freyer really wanted to get rich one way or another. He talked about how all of his friends were making loads of money in the dot-com boom, and he felt like he was missing out. As I continued reading though, I ended up enjoying his story. I know, personally, I wouldn't choose to sell off every one of my personal items simply so that it would match up with a domain name, but to each his own. It's an interesting concept to see what the people who bought his items were like in real life. I've always sold off items like he did at garage sales thinking they were just junk I didn't need anymore, but obviously the person buying them intended to make good use out of them. Overall, it was an original idea and an interesting story, but I don't know how profound of a thing it is to invite yourself to other people's homes to see how they're using something you sold them off of ebay, but maybe I'm being a little cynical. That said, I did still enjoy the story.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, some people find the home visitations a little odd.

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