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What Is Your Life Worth?
By Bloggaman | June 30, 2008
If you were asked to put a monetary value on your life would you be able to do it? When you look at your life it includes everything you own too. Your home, car(s), toys, friends, job, and everything else you can think of that can be tied to your life. So what is it worth? $1 million? $2 million? More? Can’t put a number on it?
You shouldn’t have to put a number on your life. Maybe someone can put a number on it for you. You could do like Ian Usher did and put your life up for auction on Ebay. He sold his home in Perth, Australia, his motorcycle, a jetski, his friends and all his other worldly belongings including a trial for his job at a rug store. All he does is walk away and says he will now look for a new life.
What did his life cost the highest bidder? $380,286. That’s it. A 41-year old man, coming off a divorce from a 5-year marriage, sells everything he is for less than what a new decent size home costs in many big cities.
If you were Ian Usher what would you do now? You have just sold everything you had, including your friends, and walk away with enough money to get started somewhere else? Being from Australia I would probably move from there to another continent and try something totally new. If he was working at a rug store I think he could easily find a new career that is much more exciting. If he doesn’t have a college degree maybe he goes back to school. He is still young and could have a new career in four years. In another 10 years maybe he has a great new life and he can turn around and sell that one for close to $1 million. Maybe his career is starting new lives, building them up and then selling them off.
Usher had other plans though. In fact on his website, www.alife4sale.com, he said that once the auction ended, this was what he planned to do, “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!” It is an exciting idea but yet scary at the same time. Who knows where you could end up but I guess you have to take a chance. You have a new life to start.
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