Monday, February 1, 2010

All My Life For Sale/ A Place for My Stuff

A very interesting story. I would never think to sell all of my things on ebay or anything like that. I guess I'm just used to throwing "stuff" away. Especially smaller, insignificant items that really have meaning to me. Why would someone want something like that? I really do not know. It amazes me that people bought these items and mainly because of the "concept" behind it all. I don't think I could convince myself to buy an item and invite him (Mr. Freyer) to my house so he could "check up" on this item that once used to be his. My guess is the people who bought from Mr. Freyer wanted to be able to say that they were apart of what he was doing. You know, to just have a story.

I have some things at my house that should have been thrown away or given away a long time ago but I kept them around because it does hold some kind of significance to me. Why? I have no idea, just the story behind them or how I got them, so I can understand that part of the story but still can't really understand the reason behind selling these items on ebay and on a website made solely for these items.

The Carlin clip is really funny and clever. I am a big fan of Carlin simply because his jokes are clever. He always thinks of things a totally different way than I do, very out of the box style thinking I think. In a way I agree with him when he says that we have houses so we can put our stuff there. I can relate to this in a way because back home I lived with just my dad and in every room there just seems to be stuff kind everywhere. Especially in my room. My dad is now moving into a smaller house and we have to get rid of all this stuff laying around because we won't have enough room. I feel like this relates perfectly to what Carlin was saying. Also when he was talking about going on vacation and packing a "2nd version of your stuff". To me Its the same as moving into a dorm here at Kent. I had to figure out what stuff I needed to bring and what I could leave back at home.

1 comment:

  1. Good post, Cameron. I, too, was surprised at how many people seemed to be making purchases simply because of the "concept."

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