Georgia Family Auctions Everything to Save Kids
Thursday, January 29, 2009
From the New York Daily News:
The plan is to give up almost everything they own to save their kids.
A Georgia couple is selling everything in their house on eBay in a desperate attempt to finance medical care for their sick children.
That means their beds, kitchen table, washing machine. They are even throwing in their car.
The reason?
Gregg and Brittiny Peters have three kids and two of them need constant medical care. One child, 7-year-old Ayla, has a rare debilitating form of arthritis, the other, 2-year old Noah is autistic.
The Peters have been hit with a one-two punch, and the bills are adding up. Gregg Peters is a tennis instructor andBrittiny Peters is a stay at home mom.
"Nothing's more precious than the kids, not a sofa, not a TV. It is as simple as that," said Gregg Peters
The opening price for their E-Bay auction is $20,000, the exact price of their medical bills. The response has been overwhelming.
So much so the Peters have, with the help of their bank, created their own Web site, www.everythingweown.org. They received more than a million hits and a thousand e-mails.
But the bids on their auction has been slow.
It seems that people do not want to take the Peters belongings. But they do want to give them money. More than 800 donations have piled in reaching the $10,000 mark.
They are half way to their goal. They still plan to sell everything on eBay in item-by-item auctions if they don't get any bids for the bulk auction. If that happens, they plan to keep the washing machine and maybe will let their daughter keep her bunk bed.
"I really feel like it's made me stronger, a better person. I've learned more in the last few weeks than in my whole life,” said Gregg Peters.
The plan is to give up almost everything they own to save their kids.
A Georgia couple is selling everything in their house on eBay in a desperate attempt to finance medical care for their sick children.
That means their beds, kitchen table, washing machine. They are even throwing in their car.
The reason?
Gregg and Brittiny Peters have three kids and two of them need constant medical care. One child, 7-year-old Ayla, has a rare debilitating form of arthritis, the other, 2-year old Noah is autistic.
The Peters have been hit with a one-two punch, and the bills are adding up. Gregg Peters is a tennis instructor andBrittiny Peters is a stay at home mom.
"Nothing's more precious than the kids, not a sofa, not a TV. It is as simple as that," said Gregg Peters
The opening price for their E-Bay auction is $20,000, the exact price of their medical bills. The response has been overwhelming.
So much so the Peters have, with the help of their bank, created their own Web site, www.everythingweown.org. They received more than a million hits and a thousand e-mails.
But the bids on their auction has been slow.
It seems that people do not want to take the Peters belongings. But they do want to give them money. More than 800 donations have piled in reaching the $10,000 mark.
They are half way to their goal. They still plan to sell everything on eBay in item-by-item auctions if they don't get any bids for the bulk auction. If that happens, they plan to keep the washing machine and maybe will let their daughter keep her bunk bed.
"I really feel like it's made me stronger, a better person. I've learned more in the last few weeks than in my whole life,” said Gregg Peters.
posted by Chris and Frank at 12:01 AM
2 Comments:
thanks for posting this, Chris. absolutely heartbreaking. this is the sort of thing that stays with me all day....I feel very very fortunate that I have two relatively healthy kids and decent insurance.
Thanks for posting with us, Liz, including the link to your profile. Frank and I appreciate your sentiments.
Chris
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