HOW AWESOME IS THIS?!?!?!!!!Wife selling was a traditional English practice for ending an unsatisfactory marriage. Instead of dealing with an expensive and dragged-out divorce, a husband would take his wife to market and parade her with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, before publicly auctioning her to the highest bidder. Any children from the marriage might also be sold along with their mother. Prices paid for wives varied considerably, from a high of £100 (plus £25 each for her two children), to a low of a glass of ale, or even free. The Duke of Chandos bought his second wife at one such sale in Newbury in about 1744. Along with other English customs, wife selling was exported to England's American colonies, where one man sold his wife for "two dollars and half [a] dozen bowls of grogg".
Instead of paying a grand for my dissolution, I could have EARNED money for her! And if you want to dump the wench, but have kids...you could sell them, too, so you don't have to worry about baggage when hunting for the new year's model!
But times have changed and life sucks now...
