"We had some Russian samovars that didn't appeal to me at all, and they turned out to be valuable," said Ms. Mason, 52, who used Litchfield County Auctions to sell her parents' belongings.
She even brought her mortgage broker along to the auction to keep her within her spending range.
Within weeks, all her belongings, including her pet parrot, were auctioned to pay her massive debts.
Actually, I partnered with Jennifer Miller, one of the other 15 women over 50, and we did an auction to clear her place out so she can move on with her life.
In a matter of months, her family estate and its lovely cherry orchard will be auctioned to settle her debts.
With her own struggles of depression and her 12-year-old daughter recently diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, the stress and the bills stacked up around her. On July 30th, Rain owed $13,000 and a foreclosure auction to sell her home was scheduled on August 2nd.
· Meanwhile, as if things aren't already bad enough for Hillary Clinton, now there's an eBay auction to send her to jail.
So it stands to reason that an auction devoted to her furniture would be a highly anticipated event.
Like the vultures who turned up at the auction to pick over her remaining possessions, Dumas picked over the bones of her life and turned them into a meal ticket.
Her treasures – described as one of the finest collections of British art to come to the market in generations – were auctioned at her request to continue her work of encouraging young poets and artists through her charity, Old Possum's Practical Trust.
