Month: May 2007

I used to have this long-standing joke with a friend who owned a house in the quiet neighborhood of Outpost Estates, just east of Runyon Canyon and above Hollywood.

I convinced him that Courtney Love had moved in next door, and his quiet tree-lined street was about to get busier with all-night parties, loud music, and motorcycles lined up and around his guest house garage.  I had seen a woman who looked a helluva lot like Courtney at the house, and since my friend had never seen his neighbor, my joke was quite successful, at least for a while.

Well, if Courtney did live next door, my friend would probably find it touching to know that Courtney is about to have a sale– not a garage sale, but an auction at Christie’s.  She told Spin.com on Monday that the contents in her home are like a "mausoleum" because her husband (and Nirvana rocker) Curt Colbain, died over 13 years ago.

"My daughter [14-year-old Frances Bean] doesn’t need to inherit a giant Hefty bag full of flannel fucking shirts… A sweater, a guitar, and the lyrics to ‘Teen Spirit’ — that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just fucking sell."

As with everything, getting rid of the old brings the new– even though it’s closet space:

"I still wear his pajamas to bed. How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt’s pajamas?"

Have you ever let go of something substantial in hopes that something new will bless you?  Please join the conversation and enter a comment below.

In a move that is probably less about de-cluttering and downsizing and more along the likes of Angela Bassett’s angry character in Waiting to Exhale, we heard today that Jean Strahan, wife of New York Giant’s defensive end Michael Strahan, cleaned house this past weekend.

In some sort of post-divorce feud with her ex-husband, Jean took her case to the public.

Strahan’s wife was only able to pull $6.5 million dollars from him, but that was only partial payment of the $13.5 million the courts gave her as a settlement.  Jason said it was too much and halted the remaining payment.

In what seems like a retaliation, Mrs. Strahan threw the doors open to their (her) $3.5 million dollar Montclair, New Jersey home (see picture above, left) for deals of the decade.

Published reports state that she gave $300 dresses away for $20, a set of Michael’s personally-worn gloves for $50, televisions for $50, and picture frames for $2 each.  [Click here to read more in a 2002 NFL.com article for detail about their home, and the labor of love it took to pull the renovation together.]

The couple filed for divorce in 2005.  We don’t advocate having a garage sale selling items from a non-present family member who does not have full knowledge and agreement as to the situation– no matter how bad the feelings are.  These sorts of situations make only for dramatic cinema.

Source:  Families.com and Can’t Stop the Bleeding

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