Great deal: a man sold his life at auction for $ 305 thousand and became happy

Do you want to make your dreams come true, but don’t know where to find the money for them? So Ian Asher didn’t know. And then he decided to sell his life - all, entirely. He's bored to death by her anyway. And, guess what, I sold it. The publication writes about this "Interesting".

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Like all normal people, Ian Asher dreamed of a happy family and an interesting job. As with many, alas, Asher had neither one nor the other.

Yen was almost 50. And he worked as a carpet seller in a small shop in Australia (the carpets did not bother Yen at all). And when his marriage (which, unlike the carpets, he worried) finally broke up, Ian plunged into deep depression. Here in a depression, full of hatred for himself and his life, he found the ideal way out. Sell ​​your bad life at an online auction.

The "Life of Ian Usher" lot, which he listed on eBay, included his house with all the furniture and equipment, car, motorcycle, jet ski, parachute equipment, work space and meeting all his colleagues and friends. The description of the lot ended with the words: “I’ve had enough of my life, I don’t need it anymore.” The starting price was $1.

A week later, by the end of the auction, Ian Asher owned only his passport and the proceeds from the sale of life $ 305 thousand.

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“I always dreamed of adventure,” Ian recalls, “but in reality I was sadly working in one place without any special events. I decided to do everything I dreamed of.”

Ian Asher made a list of 100 goals and gave himself 100 weeks to achieve them. Then I bought a plane ticket and flew to Dubai to achieve my first goal - skiing under the scorching sun. For the next two years, Ian traveled non-stop: he ran with the bulls at a festival in Spain, swam with great white sharks in Africa, and with whales in Japan. I learned to fly an airplane, walked along the Great Wall of China and saw with my own eyes all the largest waterfalls in the world. In London, Ian talked with his idol, entrepreneur Richard Branson. And in Hollywood he starred in a small role in a film. At the same time, he had to convince the producers for a long time that he was not thinking about an acting career, and was ready to act completely free of charge.

Two years and $270 later, Ian Asher found that he had completed 93 of his 100 items on his list. Ian decided to give up on the remaining wishes (for example, “learn to understand in your sleep that you are dreaming” and “sink to the bottom of the ocean to watch the Titanic”). Instead, with his last $30, he bought himself a tiny abandoned island off the coast of Panama, built a house on it with his own hands, and settled there.

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Much of the time, his beloved woman, Mo, whom he met while sledding dogs in Canada, also lives with him. Ian and Mo visit Canada periodically and recently founded a small publishing house there that publishes children's books. It is with his help that Ian plans to earn money: “I will never return to a regular job,” he says.

Now, four years after selling his old life, 50-year-old Ian is absolutely happy. He has written several books and is now talking to producers about a possible Hollywood film adaptation of his story. “I’m incredibly excited about this,” he says. “But you know, what’s even more surprising to me is that sometimes strangers come up to me and tell me how my story has changed their life.” They have made their own lists of goals and live to achieve them. I think the world would look really great if everyone pursued their own goals.”

What happened to the “old life” sold at auction? Asher knows nothing about this at all. But he hopes that his old life was to the liking of the person who bought it.

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