This week brought one of the most dreaded, or loved, holidays of the year: Valentine’s Day. No matter if you’re smitten or single,you’ll find nuggets of truth and hilarity in this week’s guest blogger posts from Annabel Acton, the Australian founder of Never Liked It Anyway. The genius site lets users buy and sell unwanted items from past relationships. Even better, though, it has a manual filled with “getting over it” tips, along with a forum with tell-all stories about the worst relationships ever. We’re huge fans, and know you will be, too! Read on for some great tips on living and loving.
It seems strange to me that there are so many sites to help you find love, but none to really help you when it falls apart. Think about it—there are sites for any kind of dating situation: dating right this minute, dating for married people, dating for swingers, and so on. You can even pay to have your profile written for you!
But when it comes to breakups there’s a big fat zero out there. So when they do happen, you feel doubly alone. Like you’re the only person in the world going through it, which obviously isn’t true. In the time it’s taken me to jam out these lines, someone, somewhere has just broken up.
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This week brings one of the most dreaded, or loved, holidays of the year: Valentine’s Day. No matter if you’re smitten or single,you’ll find nuggets of truth and hilarity in this week’s guest blogger posts from Annabel Acton, the Australian founder of Never Liked It Anyway. The site lets users buy and sell unwanted items from past relationships. Even better, though, it has a manual filled with “getting over it” tips along with a forum with tell-all stories about the worst relationships ever. We’re huge fans and know you will be, too! Read on for some great tips on living and loving.
The stories. Oh, the stories. We all have them, in different shapes and sizes, but the ones on Never Liked It Anyway now seem to be either disastrous or comical. Here, our favorites from the “Tell It” section.
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This week brings one of the most dreaded, or loved, holidays of the year: Valentine’s day. No matter if you’re smitten or single,you’ll find nuggets of truth and hilarity in this week’s guest blogger posts from Annabel Acton, the Australian founder of Never Liked It Anyway. The ground-breaking site lets users buy and sell unwanted items from past relationships. Even better, though, it has a manual filled with “getting over it” tips along with a forum with tell-all stories about the worst relationships ever. We’re huge fans, and know you will be, too! Read on for some great tips on living and loving.
Advice, it can be practical or useless. But before we hastily discredit the latter category, it’s worth remembering that “useless” is often funny. The Moving On Manual is a part of Never Liked It Anyway where people can add brief tips on how to move on quickly. Some practical advice includes nuggets like “buy a new bed, something you like, complete with new bedding.” This is perfect since you get the distraction of shopping plus the inexplicable excitement that new bedding can bring. There are other sage tips from seasoned dumpees like “get an extreme haircut when going through this life changing experience…” Practical and thrilling, but there are also incredibly comical tips like “my grandma told me the best way to get over a man is to get under another! It may be true, but so gross to hear from nan.” In fact, on second thought, this one delivers both humor and practicality.
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This week brings one of the most dreaded, or loved, holidays of the year: Valentine’s day. No matter if you’re smitten or single,you’ll find nuggets of truth and hilarity in this week’s guest blogger posts from Annabel Acton, the Australian founder of Never Liked It Anyway. The ground-breaking site lets users buy and sell unwanted items from past relationships. Even better, though, it has a manual filled with “getting over it” tips along with a forum with tell-all stories about the worst relationships ever. We’re huge fans, and know you will be, too! Read on for some great tips on living and loving.
I’d expected breakup bounty to mirror the sorts of stuff I was left with after my own split; concert tickets, jewelry, sweatshirts, tennis racquets, picture frames—goods well under the $300 mark. To my surprise, the site has become a bridal couture catalog in it’s own right. There are pages and pages of wedding gowns for sale among many other, high-priced goods. This certainly was not what I had in mind.
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This week brings one of the most dreaded, or loved, holidays of the year: Valentine’s Day. No matter if you’re smitten or single,you’ll find nuggets of truth and hilarity in this week’s guest blogger posts from Annabel Acton, the Australian founder of Never Liked It Anyway. The genius site lets users buy and sell unwanted items from past relationships. Even better, though, it has a manual filled with “getting over it” tips, along with a forum with tell-all stories about the worst relationships ever. We’re huge fans, and know you will be, too! Read on for some great tips on living and loving.
The first question anyone asks me about Never Liked It Anyway, is “how did you come up with the idea?”
Unsurprisingly, it was born out of personal experience. My boyfriend and I split five days before Christmas last year, and suddenly our planned holiday to London didn’t seem so appealing.
I eventually booked a flight to Argentina to meet friends. Somewhere in the all of the panic, I thought about all the things I had received from him, but didn’t want anymore: jewelry, tickets to shows, artwork. I started joking about a place that would let you sell all things ex. Everyone laughed, and I realized I was on to something. When I looked into the ugly world of online resources for breakups, all I could find were useless metaphors from “relationship experts” and boring, sad-sack blogs. Who wants to be told “It’s better to have loved and lost…” when you’re in the thick of a break-up?
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