John D Freyer's All My Life For Sale

“All my Life for sale” is a name of a Book based on a master degree project of a man named John Freyer, who used the commercial public auction website E-Bay to sale nearly all of his possessions, including this book sold and auctioned in 2001.

Looking through the shops for a new deal, hopefully one they could afford. I remember my parents taking me and my two brothers garage sale shopping every weekend, packing snack bags and busted Gameboys. I never understood why we had to get up at eight in the morning to go to sale after sale, sometimes coming home with nothing at all. To me, it was boring to look at other people’s things. I didn’t realize the importance of other people’s things it until I discovered that their stuff, would become our stuff for just a quarter. It’s where our kitchen utensils came from. Our clothes and our books. The little things that filled our shelves and cabinets. After that point, much like Laurel, I began to go to garage sales with a different attitude. These people were selling their things for close to nothing at all. I cannot count the amount of times my mother's face changed from curious to shocked, simply because that piece of glassware for a dollar was in fact some long, rich sounding brand name piece of glass that to me, looked like an impractical bowl. But to the older women selling it, it was her favorite item in her glass cabinet. Or it was a gift from her daughter she hadn’t seen in a long time. Or maybe to that older women, it was just a piece of glass with no use. Maybe she never knew how much it was worth. But we could never really know how much it was worth to her. Being poor doesn’t mean not having nice things. It

John Freyer sold a collection of peculiar items on eBay. The items did not seem to have any value but reading further into, “All my Life for Sale,” I see each item has an appealing story about it. John decided to sell nearly all of his belongings, except what was essential to keep. John Freyer talked about the items and the memory he had about each item. Some of the things he sold were: a bag of thirty-seven spoons, a box of opened taco shells and kitchen canisters. When I looked on eBay for kitchen canisters to compare to John’s, I found the description and the audience had some differences.

Like John Freyer, I am the type who holds onto objects, whether it is useful or not, as I tend to think that I may have some use for them in the future, and would regret getting rid of it. I am very conservative of my money, so I end up keeping what others would call trash most of the time. However, I did not really think much about the items that I stashed in my drawers and shelves, as they were just insignificant objects that came to play a part in my life. But in Freyer’s “All My Life For Sale,” he had written that through voluntary dispossession, he had begun to see how his possessions had portrayed him and what it symbolized for him, allowing him to see what the problem he had was. Reading this article made me remember the time when I realized that possessions can a different meaning to them if you look at them in a different way.

My responsibilities for this time period have involved preparing for the Glendale Chamber of Commerce’s annual auction. The annual auction is an event that is held in the last quarter of every year that helps fund the Glendale Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, the annual auction receives auction items through donations from Glendale Chamber members and random donors. For the purpose of the annual auction is also to provide attendees with the opportunity to buy gifts for their friends and family.

From those quotes and statements that found in the novel that has been stated before, it can be seen that the narrator is using a repression as his defense mechanism. And here, the id has an important role. The narrator wants Marla, and wanted to having a sex to express his anger and inferiority to Marla, since he hates Marla for stealing support groups from him, and since there is no society allows an expression of sex and aggression, the narrator’s desire, Marlawhich is a part of the id has to be repressed, and Tyler Durden who came as the “savior” is the manifestation of his repressed expression of sex, and aggression. Same pattern also can be seen when he established fight club. The narrator and other members of fight club are coming from an absent father family.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. (Chapter

For some, material possessions offer quality beyond physical form; they provide remembrance of past experiences and emotional connections, all holding value considerably higher than the devices intended use. As a result, these same individuals will often seek garage sales, auctions, and antique stores in favor of generic department stores, as the prior provide assurance that the items of purchase keep a deep, resounding history. The acquisition of the articles delivers not only serviceable use, but also an association with the prior owner, thereby yielding a social merit that is well worth the expense. “AllMyLifeForSale.com” is a prime example of merchandising articles not solely based on physical purpose, as similar websites such as EBay,

For Joe, buying antique was his hobby, he enjoys going to different auctions and finding hidden gem. I believe Joe enjoys learning the history of these items, in the end of the video he was explaining to the buyers at his store, about where he purchased the items and what it meant to the owner and the towner. I was actually surprised to see how much he was willing to pay for a basket, but merely sold the benches he bought for less than $100 a piece.

First of all I chose to summarize this chapter because I found if hilarious. I come from a family who likes to sell things from magazines, I have some aunts and friends who sale Tupperware, Avon, MaryKay, and even perfumes, so I think I would understand and be able to summarize some of the information from the chapter better. It starts of by talking about how we like to say “yes” to the requests of people we know or are more familiar with, opposed to a stranger who we might randomly come across. This was over all shocking because, it’s true but we never think of the logistics of buying something from someone we know opposed to a stranger. When we know someone this is this bond of trust, and we could buy things of from them because we trust

In “Black on White,” author David R. Roediger stated that “White writers have long been positioned as the leading and most dispassionate investigators of the lives, values, and abilities of people of color.” However, quite the contrary Whites writing on “whiteness” and what it means to be white is rare. The author also stated that few Americans are aware of how “extremely knowledgeable African-Americans” when it comes to “whites and whiteness.” He also noted that, “African-Americans have been among the nation’s keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior,” but this knowledge he writes is “created and suppressed.”

The crystal merchant has lost “thirty years” of his life living in fear of pursuing his dream and never attempting to fulfil it, thus making it “too late to change anything” (44). These thirty years of compliance had provided him happiness in the beginning “when many people knew of his shop” (44); however, conformity only satisfies an individual until he realizes what he has lost - his dream and his happiness. Therefore, while the crystal merchant’s “business had fallen off” (44-45), thus resulting in a future

John Freyer and EBay have two different types of audiences they are trying to capture. Freyer made his auction of converse sneakers more political and EBay is more about a sale. Between the two sales of converse sneakers I would chose Freyer. Even though I may never have worn the converse sneakers his political views caught my attention. He made his auction of the converse sneakers captivating and made me believe Freyer’s

To reinforce this idea, instead of focusing on Will, various close-up shots focus on Will’s possessions – his state-of-the-art appliances such as his entertainment system and espresso machine. Therefore, indicating to the viewer that his possessions are of great importance to him. This can be supported by Will going on to say through voice over, “A hundred years ago, for instance, you had to depend on other people. No one had TV or CDs or DVDs or videos or home espresso

Theists, people who believe in the existence of God, often are required to pray to God in order to obtain certain benefits and provisions. It is believed that these things wouldn’t come to God’s believers unless they take the role as a petitioner and pray. These believers know God to be an all-loving being. However, if this is the case, a major problem arises for both atheists and theists alike; “Why would God bestow the good only if asked to bestow it” and “Why does God not grant the good irrespective of whether some person ask for it?” Michael J. Murray and Kurt Myers attempt at answer these questions in support of theism through “Ask and I Will Be Given to You.” Although they do a great job showing the benefits that arise from the use