Monthly Archives: May 2008

24 days to go!! “Lyrics of your life”

Last night I decided to answer a few emails, and respond to a few Bulletin Board postings that I been neglecting for a while. I cracked a bottle of wine, and made a start after dinner, and progressed well. As the evening progressed the lovely Margaret River Semillon Sauvignon Blanc went pretty well too, and […]

25 days to go!! Warning! Something that my house does not contain…

I worked at Jenny Jones Rugs for three years, from around May 2003, and left shortly after my separation from Laura, to head out to Kalgoorlie with just a few clothes packed in my car to become a truck driver. When we lived together in our previous house we had all of the accessories that […]

26 days to go!! Auction Sniping!

Early in the build up to my auction I had quite a few questions for eBay about exactly how I would be able to list my auction. I needed to confirm that they would have no issues with what I was doing, and that the sale would be able to run smoothly. So after some […]

27 days to go!! How can you leave it all behind?

Another question I often get asked is how I can walk away from everything that I own. Well, firstly, I’m not the kind of person who accumulates too much in the way of memorabilia and meaningful objects. My home is pretty functional and fairly minimalist. It’s just easier to keep tidy that way, I suppose. […]

29 days to go!! “Ian’s Cake Day” at work

For quite a few years now at Jenny Jones Rugs we have had a regular “Cake Day” each Friday morning. The idea is that each member of staff has to take a turn to bake some sort of biscuits or cake for all to have with morning coffee. There is now quite an element of […]

31 days to go!! One month and counting…

Well, it’s the 22nd May today, exactly one month until the start of the auction. I think it all now seems a bit unreal, as it is a couple of months since I launched the website, and after the initial spike of interest, things have slowly returned to normal. For the past month I have […]

32 days to go!! A couple of interesting blogs.

According to Technorati, a website which monitors blogs and blog connections, to date ALife4Sale.com has now been mentioned in 428 different blogs!! Here are a just a few of the more unusual ones that I found (update 2019 – links removed as most have disappeared over time). The Ian Usher Saga! A Japanese to English […]

33 days to go!! Unexpected parcel in the mail.

I did a blog a few days ago about a new movie called “House of Usher”. Since I started this blog at Auction-Day Minus 100, I have had many messages and comments about the many things I have written about, but this is an amazing first! Coming home from work tonight, I found a large […]

34 days to go!! Spa mirror issue resolved.

It’s my day off work today. The shop I work in, being a retail outlet, is open six days a week, but staff there only work five days. So one week I work Monday to Friday, and the next I work Tuesday to Saturday. This means that every other weekend I get three days off, […]

35 days to go!! “Carn the Dockers!!”

When I first arrived in Perth to live six years ago we moved into a big shared house by the ocean in City Beach. One of the guys who lived there, Craigo, was a big fan of Australian Rules Football, or “Aussie Rules”. His team was the Fremantle Dockers, and he was a keen supporter, […]

37 days to go!! Wife for sale on eBay!

Another guy I have discovered took an unusual step in order to sell his wife’s wedding gown – he wore it himself in the pictures he put on his eBay listing. There is a big article here about what happened to him: https://www.snopes.com/love/revenge/weddress.asp

38 days to go!! If…

IF… If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or […]

39 days to go!! New house guests.

Things have changed a bit at my house over the past couple of days. In December I finished working up in the mines in far north Western Australia, and took a couple of months off to travel in a camper van across Australia. While over in New South Wales I visited my friend Alan and […]

41 days to go!! New mirror in the dining room.

Sometimes when you have thought about something for quite a while, you build up expectations of how it will be. And sometimes things just do not work out how you imagined they would. That is how life it, but it can be pretty frustrating! I have had cause to stop and consider expectations this weekend, […]

42 days to go!! Paint the roof pink!

A friend of mine has a poster in her dining room which features a cartoon drawing from an humourist named Mordillo. She says that it hangs there in plain view as a reminder to “paint the roof pink” as often as possible in her life. I like this sort of attitude as it reflects my […]

43 days to go!! “House Of Usher” follow-up…

Following on from my Movie News blog a couple of days ago about yesterday’s release of the movie “House Of Usher”, I decided to get myself a copy of the book “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe. I went searching online, expecting to have to buy the book at Amazon, […]

45 days to go!! Movie news…

I did my first skydive at the age of sixteen. My father treated me to the finest birthday present I’d ever had. I was going to do a static-line jump, which means that all you actually have to do is jump out successfully. A line attached from the parachute rig to the plane causes the […]

46 days to go!! 2006 census data for the city of Perth

For anyone interested in perhaps bidding on my auction in June, here are some interesting facts about Perth, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2006 census data for the city of Perth I was intrigued to find that 31% of people living here were born overseas, and almost 10% of people living here were born […]

47 days to go!! Speakers by the spa!

I occasionally get asked whether I will be listing the contents of my cupboards and drawers. A few people have asked why, after spending so much time and effort photographing my house, I haven’t photographed or itemized the contents of the entire house. My original approach was simply to detail anything of value: the house, […]

48 days to go!! Quote from the GuestBook…

A very quick blog entry, as time is against me today! Tess from Brisbane left a great quote on the Guest Book a day or two ago which I liked:- “At the end of the day, our only true possessions are the memories we keep inside”

49 days to go!! A bad hair day!

This is what happens when you visit friends who have creative children on a Sunday afternoon:-

51 days to go!! Never get so busy that…

I have a picture in my living room, on the wall to the right of the projector screen. Laura and I bought it several years ago when we visited renowned Australian photographer Ken Duncan’s Gallery in Matcham, which is on the Central Coast in New South Wales. The gallery was almost right next door to […]

52 days to go!! Pom Gone Walkabout.

I got an email from Eric Cullen about his website, “Pom Gone Walkabout”. Eric Cullen, age 47 and still very much a young boy at heart. He’s a product of the 1960’s, born of English parentage in the midlands town of Loughcaster. Forever young in mind, spirit and adventure, Eric is horribly trapped inside the […]