
Even Oprah holds yard sales (but hers raise $600,000!)
The media mogul offloaded items from
her homes in Hawaii, California and Indiana on Friday in a sale that earned more than $600,000 for charity.
All proceeds from the auction will go
towards her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, a boarding school that provides education
for academically
gifted girls from impoverished backgrounds. The funds will help the female
graduates as they go on to attend university.
"I'm
trying not to be attached to things," said Oprah. "I'm trying to live
the life that I talk about, like not letting things define you. But it's
hard."
Some of the unconventional items, which were sold under tents in Santa Barbara and online for up to 10 times their value, included a 19th-century doll collection, “simple” crystal lamp bases and a teapot – purchased by one lucky bidder for $1,000!
For
those with more extravagant tastes, a set of six 18th-century Louis XVI
armchairs fetched a whopping $60,000.
"It is my idea of a yard sale,
and just like everybody, you start accumulating stuff. I've been accumulating
things since 1985," Oprah said.