Buy-A-Bride
By Never teh Bride
A hopeful Denver, Colorado wanna-be bride is trying to sell herself as she sells her house, according to DeHavilland.com. Deborah Hale is selling her house via auction and has actually included herself among the amenities.
Deborah, 48, a jewellery designer who runs her own business, says: “I hope to find that special man, who wants to build a life with me and share this special home with me.”
The romantic offer is also available on eBay. “I have my listing at $600,000.00 plus myself for bid as ‘priceless’,” she says.
“My attempts [to find love] included dating services, blind dates and connections through friends, but I still had not met the man to build a life with,” she says.
November 6th, 2005 at 2:27 am
That’s pretty sad.
November 6th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Truly, enygma! I don’t understand it. She’s really quite pretty and successful. Maybe the menfolk are intimidated?
November 6th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Is it just me, or would this tactic drive away any of the normal men?
November 6th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
I think I would, were I a man, have to ask myself what was wrong with this chick. A vestigial tail? Ten toes on each foot? Extreme narcolepsy?!
But perhaps she is simply dissatisfied with the modern dating scene?
November 6th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
So she’s getting someone to buy her house, but she won’t have to move out?
GENIUS.
November 7th, 2005 at 11:52 am
That woman is not 48.
November 7th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
I admire this lady’s pluck and success (and good looks), but the arrangement does, by American standards, have a hint of desperation. (Perhaps this wouldn’t be so unusual in another culture–we tend to value romance more so than others.)
I can believe her dilemma. I, too, live in the Denver area, and I don’t think I’ve met twenty men my age in the past ten years. I’ve participated in a lot of activities (none of them especially girly), but my co-participants were almost all women, with the odd husband dragged along.
I do sometimes meet men her age. Their problem is that they try to pick up women my age (36) and younger. Yes, that’s what I need, to work my whole life, retire at 65, and then start taking care of an 80-year-old man. They need to find someone their own age.
November 7th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
CBOT, perhaps we should allow for the generous use of Photoshop?
November 7th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
Call me a cynic, but I’d say she’s hoping to enter two transactions that should be kept far apart. I mean, talk about complicating two already complicated matters by trying to kill two birds with one stone.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:26 am
Speaking as someone who is 48, she looks 48 to me. Maybe not an “average” 48, but what is “average” ? She has a good bone structure, has probably avoided the sun, and the photograph has been taken by a professional. Her hair is starting to slide into that suspect “ash blonde” favoured by some older wome, and it’s coming perilously close to her skin colour - one of the signs by which you can tell a woman who’s past 45. The nude lip colour doesn’t favour older women, either. She’s a very pretty woman who is no longer young (and don’t give me any nonsense about the “new 30″ or whatever, either - unless you’re going for 96 or better, 48 is sliding past middle age. Ask your body when you reach 48 yourselves.) She would benefit from a little more lip colour, a little more hair-and-skin-contrast - and a lot less desperation.
November 9th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
Given that she’s going to continue living in the house–and that real estate isn’t selling very well in Denver right now–she ought to think about selling only a 50% interest in her home.
November 14th, 2005 at 4:39 pm
Very generous indeed
November 29th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Hi N.t.B.! Can you tell us more about flower preservation one of these days? I just fathom letting them dry upside down. Thnx!!