Last year, author Buzz Bissinger's shopping addiction got so real that he actually went to rehab. He also wrote a revealing piece for GQ about it. After getting out of rehab, he resorted to storing his $500K wardrobe in a storage facility, just to keep his old demons at bay. Now, he's decided to say goodbye to his old vices for good, by auctioning off some of his collection on eBay.
With the help of company LuxeSwap, Bissinger will put up new pieces every Thursday until the whole lot is gone. The collection includes around 150 items, that range in retail price from $500 to $22,000, many of which have never even been worn outdoors. Though he will recover a fraction of what he paid, Bissinger isn't sad to see the items go. "It was not hard to get rid of. It was cathartic," he told GQ. "Part of a continuing effort to put a very fucked-up phase of my life to rest." He also shares that his clothing addiction was starting to cause bigger problems: "I want to say that the clothing addiction was probably the least of a host of issues that sent me into rehab. There was suicide ideation. I was doing physical harm to myself. I was beginning to play around with drugs such as Percocet."
Bissinger is best known for his book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, which has sold nearly two million copies and was the inspiration for two television series' and a film. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine and a former host of his own radio show on CBS.
Bissinger also told GQ that while he still loves clothes, he buys a "fraction" of what he used to. And despite the auction, he did keep "virtually all of the Gucci items I wrote about in GQ." Of course.
[via GQ]
