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Move away Second Life. Now, you can sell your “non-virtual life” for cash online! This includes everything that belongs to you (your entire life possession, friends, job, wife?) and it’s relatively easy! However, selling your life does not mean that you’ll be dead after the auction is over. Instead, it is meant for one who is looking for a fresh start in his/her life. Everything that is sold will go to the highest auction bidder, similar to what 44-year-old Usher is doing. Usher is hoping to raise $500, 000 to start a new life.

44-year-old Usher has set up a website, alife4sale.com, to detail everything you get in the auction.  On the front page he assures buyers, “No, I’m not contemplating suicide, I am going to sell my life!”
Ok, so what exactly do you get?  First off there is a 3-bedroom/2-bathroom house in Perth that’s been appraised at approximately $400,000.  The house is fully furnished and you get everything inside.  “All that is in the house, absolutely everything, is included in the auction,” says Usher.

You also get an assortment of vehicles like a 1989 Mazda 979, 1996 Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R motorcycle, a Kawasaki jet-ski and a bicycle.  You also get an assortment of skydiving and surfing gear along with a spa and home entertainment system.

But perhaps the wackiest ‘items’ to be auctioned are Usher’s job as a rug store assistant at a local mom and pop store and his assortment of friends.  The job starts off as a two-week trial period and then extends into a full-time gig.  Unfortunately, Usher isn’t publishing a picture of his friends so you might be in for a shock if you actually win this auction.

So far the website has received a fair amount of traffic and more than 2600 people have left comments in the guestbook – most have been fairly positive and congratulate Usher on the auction.  And it certainly seems like Usher is serious about the whole thing.

“I have had enough of my life! I don’t want it any more! You can have it if you like!,” he says.

The eBay auction begins on June 22 and will last one week.  Usher says there will be a modest reserve price.  But there’s two things you don’t get, Usher plans on keeping his wallet and passport.

Source: tgdaily.com