I have stuff. I'm a pretty acquisitive person (especially when it comes to shoes). I like pictures on my walls and the occasional candle-holder on my mantle. So I'm not against having stuff, but I'm wondering if we're not buying some things for the wrong reasons. Or maybe attaching value to some things that really shouldn't have value.
In April, some bonehead paid $45,000 for Marilyn Monroe's chest x-rays. Do you know what you can buy for $45,000? Do you know how many starving kids that would feed for a year? Does this person have so much money that it seemed reasonable to drop this kind of cash on chest x-rays? I'm sure that everyone I know can come up with at least 50 things that would be more worthwhile.
Now I see that Winston Churchill's dentures are up for grabs. At least these are only expected to fetch a few thousand pounds. And they have the added appeal of having actually been a part of the famous man. Anyone have £5000 they feel like tossing away?
If you're running a little tight on cash, you do have the option of bidding on the ashes of the cat who appeared in the opening credits of the British soap opera Coronation Street for 11 years. Because, of course, who wouldn't want the ashes of a strange cat for their front parlor decor?
I do advise you to hold on to your cash, though. You never know when one of Lassie's petrified poops might show up on e-Bay.
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