<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Strollerderby : $4 gas</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/_2400_4+gas/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: $4 gas</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Family Auctions $103,000 in Debt on Ebay</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/04/27/something-funny-for-sunday.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:88686</guid><dc:creator>Rachael Brownell (Redsy)</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=88686</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/04/27/something-funny-for-sunday.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://consumerist.com/384358/man-ebays-10325411-in-debt"&gt;&lt;img src="http://consumerist.com/assets/resources/2008/04/ebayingdebt.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="" height="174" hspace="" width="494" /&gt;This is one way to handle the housing/food/gas crunch&lt;/a&gt; non-recession of 2008.  One woman is attempting to auction off the entirety of her family&amp;#39;s debt = $103K or so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She even itemizes it for you...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please note that you don&amp;#39;t hear this poor family (as in sympathy not poverty) &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/04/23/greenhouse-why-high-gas-prices-are-a-good-thing.aspx"&gt;arguing their debt is due to $4 gas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, this seems like a very commonsensical (if a little last ditch) method of dealing with debt.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plus, you can keep her car and her house if you like (though that&amp;#39;s optional), though apparently not her kids (who look quite cute, especially compared to the husband).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compared to my family&amp;#39;s debt, this seems small fry, baby.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Hat Tip: &lt;a href="http://consumerist.com/384358/man-ebays-10325411-in-debt"&gt;Consumerist&lt;/a&gt;]&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=88686" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/poverty/default.aspx">poverty</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/ebay/default.aspx">ebay</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/recession/default.aspx">recession</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/struggling+families/default.aspx">struggling families</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/_2400_4+gas/default.aspx">$4 gas</category></item></channel></rss>