A newly divorced Texas woman set her wedding dress on fire during a ‘divorce’ garage sale in which she sold all her ex-husband’s property. 

Briana Barksdale, 34, of Spring, Texas, posted an ad on Craigslist on February 8, advertising the fact that she was having a ‘Divorce garage sale’ after being granted a divorce from her ‘worthless, cheating, abusive husband’ after a two year battle.

The goal of the garage sale was to ‘get him out of my life.’ 

After her divorce was finalized, Briana Barksdale, 34, threw a divorce garage sale, getting rid of everything that belonged to her 'cheating, abusive husband'

After her divorce was finalized, Briana Barksdale, 34, threw a divorce garage sale, getting rid of everything that belonged to her ‘cheating, abusive husband’

While the garage sale was going on, Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire

While the garage sale was going on, Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire

While the garage sale was going on, Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire

‘It was just a really hard situation, it was a bad situation that I had to get out of and I stayed for way too long,’ Barksdale told Click 2 Houston.

Barksdale’s ex, who has not been named, pleaded guilty to assault of a family member and is serving seven years probation and community service, according to court records obtained by Click 2 Houston.    

The mother-of-two’s divorce was finalized on January 31 and the garage sale was held on February 10. 

In the Craigslist ad, Barksdale wrote, that the sale was ‘for every woman who has ever been in a relationship that was abusive, that hurt, that they shouldn’t have stayed in, that they didn’t know how to get out of,’ NBC New York reported. 

Barksdale’s ad invited anyone who has ‘ever been completely screwed over by an ex’ to stop by her house to ‘help me get rid of this (expletive) so I can move on with my life.’ 

Barksdale, a mother of two, said she paid to maintain two households - her own and her husband's - prior to the divorce. After being granted the divorce, she decided to sell everything they owned together in a big garage sale

Barksdale, a mother of two, said she paid to maintain two households - her own and her husband's - prior to the divorce. After being granted the divorce, she decided to sell everything they owned together in a big garage sale

Barksdale, a mother of two, said she paid to maintain two households – her own and her husband’s – prior to the divorce. After being granted the divorce, she decided to sell everything they owned together in a big garage sale

In her Craigslist ad about the garage sale, she said that she would burn her wedding dress, as well as photos of herself with her now ex-husband 

In her Craigslist ad about the garage sale, she said that she would burn her wedding dress, as well as photos of herself with her now ex-husband 

In her Craigslist ad about the garage sale, she said that she would burn her wedding dress, as well as photos of herself with her now ex-husband 

People attending the garage sale wrote messages on her wedding dress, addressed to Barksdale's ex-husband. The dress was displayed before it was set on fire

People attending the garage sale wrote messages on her wedding dress, addressed to Barksdale's ex-husband. The dress was displayed before it was set on fire

People attending the garage sale wrote messages on her wedding dress, addressed to Barksdale’s ex-husband. The dress was displayed before it was set on fire

Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire with a lighter in the house's driveway

Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire with a lighter in the house's driveway

Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire with a lighter in the house’s driveway

As added incentive for stopping by, she said mimosas and doughnuts would be available on site and that shoppers ‘can even help me burn the pictures, and my wedding dress.’   

After all, she noted: ‘I don’t want the memories. And I’d like to recoup some of the thousands upon thousands of dollars I spent on his sorry ass.’  

Barksdale said that she had to pay for two households – hers and her ex’s – after he lost his job following the alleged felony he’d committed and then demanded in court documents that she pay for him to continue living his lifestyle. 

She wrote that she spent more than $50,000 on the divorce process and is now free, but ‘WAY more broke.’ 

‘Am I going to be eating ramen until I’m 50? Probably also yes. It’s fine. Single ramen tastes better than married filet mignon anyday [sic],’ Barksdale wrote. 

After the divorce, Barksdale told KRISTV that she was awarded ‘pretty much everything’ and had decided to sell everything that she and her ex owned jointly.

Barksdale, a mother of two, was awarded all of her husband's possessions during the divorce

Barksdale, a mother of two, was awarded all of her husband's possessions during the divorce

Barksdale said that it took two years and more than $50,000 for her to be granted the divorce

Barksdale said that it took two years and more than $50,000 for her to be granted the divorce

Barksdale, a mother of two, was awarded all of her husband’s possessions during the divorce

Among the items she put up for sale were a living room set, a queen-size bed, a bunk bed, a video game console, clothes, tools and linens – ‘pretty much everything it takes to keep a lazy worthless human being in a state of comfort for a year,’ Barksdale noted. 

She was also selling his grandmother’s silverware, she said, ‘Because he deserves it. F him. Maybe he’ll learn not to get bartenders pregnant and hit his wife.’

True to her word, Barksdale set her wedding dress on fire in the middle of her driveway. She and the garage sale shoppers cheered as the dress disintegrated.

Prior to setting it alight, friends and shoppers used Sharpies to write profanity-laden messages addressed to Barksdale’s ex all over the dress.

Barksdale told KHOU that almost all of the items were sold within minutes of the sale starting and that she’d sold everything by the end. Prices started as low as 50 cents.    



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