If anybody tells you that car boot sales and charity shops are pointless, they clearly don't know what they're talking about. Nothing beats the wonders of rummaging through boxes on a cold early morning with a ropey ?1 polystyrene cup of tea whilst searching for hidden gems.
The high street charity shop is a haven for those sourcing everything from old records to a piece of clothing that would sell for bucket loads in a vintage boutique. Granted, someone might have died in the blazer you're donning for a night out, but a few washes and squirt of Lynx Africa will cover that death musk.
Whilst second hand goods of the common man and woman change hands for a handful of pounds, the rules change when famous people are involved. One particular auction has been on the cards for ages with Michael Jackson extremists squealing in their droves as they get the chance to own items that they probably already have.
One of the more bizarre items that was rumoured to have been up for sale was the bed where poor Michael Jackson did his last boogie in. After Dr. Conrad Murray had administered a dose of sexy medical help and had been unable to save him, the bed could have wound up as a weird shrine to Jackson nutters everywhere.
In a way, we're sad that it wasn?t up for auction. We?d have just published rumours that if 10,000 litres of tears where poured on the bed, the ghost of Jackson would reappear. Thrilling.
The pre-auction estimate of what was on offer ranged from $200,000 to $400,000 which would have filled the pockets of the Jackson estate quite well. Instead, this figure was blown out of the water with the final total being close to $1million. For that amount of money, Joe Jackson could customise all of his famous beating belts with the finest gemstones in the world. So what exactly was on offer?
?A kitchen chalkboard where Jackson’s children wrote ‘I love daddy,’ which sold for $5,000, and an armoire upon which Jackson wrote a message to himself on the mirror that fetched $25,750.?
It's important to note that the chalkboard came from one of Jackson?s kids and not from one of his alleged child abuse victims when he bought their love with Jesus Juice and extreme sleepovers. However, it does make us wonder what a chalkboard with a message saying ?HELP, HE TOUCHED MY SPECIAL AREA? would be worth.
Whilst it might seem creepy that someone purchased items with personal family messages on, you can always count on Michael Jackson weirdness to go that one extra step:
?The headboard from the bed where Jackson died at age 50 was removed from the auction at the family’s request, but the rug that was beneath the bed sold for $15,360. The estimate had been $400 to $600.?
Yeah! Maximum respect for the headboard there. Who knows what someone would do it if they purchased it? Christ, they might replace it with their bedroom rug, so that? Michael can almost be watching over them whilst they sleep and search for the sweetest of dreams. Who wouldn't want their very own drug addicted skin morphing guardian angel looking after them?
With the auctions all over, how refreshing is it to know that grown adults will be going to bed and cuddling objects that Michael Jackson either touched, licked, rubbed or got aroused over?