PHOENIX - One Valley man knows the answer thanks to E-bay.

Imagine if you sold it all

He sold it all, everything. Take a look around your home - all that stuff-- many of us would call priceless-- imagine it all just going away to the highest bidder.

They are the things that document our lives.

The yearbook we pull out when feeling nostalgic.

The family heirlooms we hold onto hoping to one day pass them on to the next generation.

However for Lloyd Garner now sitting in a room once packed with his stuff it had to go. All of it.

“Yeah, I sold my college degree, I sold my journals," he said.

His television, diary, old love letters, one by one -- he put it all up on E-bay.

Lloyd lives with his grandfather and said his grandfather is a pack rat, which might be an understatement.

And sitting among the old cassette tapes, lottery tickets that didn't win and piles of useless paperwork Lloyd had an epiphany.

"In a mental way they were anchoring me to my past," he said. "I need to be caring about my present and my future."

You often hear "a picture is worth a thousand words" and monetarily speaking that equates to about $2.52 the price someone in London paid for his picture album.

It took a year to find enough interested buyers.

The final tally came to $3,683.93.

But it wasn’t the cash he was after; it's the right of passage.

"It was worth it, because you can’t pay for that kind of experience," he said.

If you are wondering all Lloyd said he has left is the suit he was wearing, some other clothes and some work out gear.

And now that everything is gone, he can concentrate on the future which includes promoting a novel he wrote and maybe if he is lucky a career in wrestling.