I finally know what she meant!! Have you heard this?

I have never heard this saying ever. I would love to buy my sister,and sell her for what she swears shes worth. I would never have to worry about how we will eat. Even where my house payment is coming from. LOL I wish we really could do this.

I've never heard the saying, BUT I do know a few people that would pertain to..lol....LOri

I do know a few people who are rather fitting of that statement. Funny that the first time I utters those words (said them maybe 5 or 6 times in total) I was at work (peds floor in a hospital) and it was about one of the mothers of a child who was in the hospital since the day he was born.
She was (has since died) a crackhead wh*re who gave birth to a child who because of her drug habit ended up having AIDS, kidney and liver problems and a heart problem. She would come to the hospital maybe twice a year like she cared about her child who was never able to eat real food because he was hooked up to a feeding tube. She would walk in and make a scene trying to get us to bow down to her as if she was doing anyone a favor by taking 10 minutes out of her drug habit to see that her child who by the way had no f*cking clue who she was.
Sorry, been a few years but that woman's actions still piss me off but damn if I could have sold her for what she thought she was worth I would have more money then Oprah.

Oh yes, the first time I heard a variation of this saying was when I was 8 years old on vacation visiting my great grandmother Martina. She was a wonderful woman who didn't gab a lot, but when she spoke, her words spoke volumes!
Who would I buy for what she's actually worth and sell for what she think she's worth? PARIS HILTON, hehe

Oh, I love this! I had never heard it before, but you can bet I am going to use it now! I know the person to whom it applies best, too: my husband is a photographer, and he has this one model who always says yes, but half the time she calls to cancel, half an hour after they are supposed to meet (after he has gotten up early and everything). She always poses the same few poses, won't let him get what he needs (he wants people to not always 'notice' the camera - she always stares straight into it). It is great to have self confidence, but she thinks she is so much prettier than she actually is, and she is a complete prima donna. I have always said that she is not nearly as good as she thinks she is, and this saying def. applies to her. Thank you for helping me to say what I have been trying to say all along!

I've heard that saying lots of times too, mostly from my Gramma and my Dad too. (Must have been one of those old-timey sayings) Yes, I know many people who this phrase fits to a T. I have to laugh, you mention a physician, and I have met a lot of those in my 40 years nursing too. One Dr that I was referred to a couple of years ago was like that: rude, arrogant and treated me like I was a nut case over the symptoms I was having. I went somewhere else for a second opinion, and hey, there was a very real and valid reason for the symptoms I was having, and it was something that needed caught in time. Although I used to see it far more back when I first started nursing in the 60's, I don't see this quite as much with physicians today now that people are more into being their own advocates in their health care. Back then we would have termed this physician as having the 'God Complex.' It stemmed from Dr's who thought that they were always right and acted superior about it. (Even when they were 100% wrong lol) I know lots of regular folks who are like this too. Having self-esteem is a good thing, but when they feel they are superior to others with an over-inflated ego, that's when they have a definite problem relating to others.

I've heard that saying lots of times, mostly from my Gramma and my Dad too. (Must have been one of those old-timey sayings) Yes, I know many people who this phrase fits to a T. I have to laugh, you mention a physician, and I have met a lot of those in my 40 years nursing too. One Dr that I was referred to a couple of years ago was like that: rude, arrogant and treated me like I was a nut case over the symptoms I was having. I went somewhere else for a second opinion, and hey, there was a very real and valid reason for the symptoms I was having, and it was something that needed caught in time. Although I used to see it far more back when I first started nursing in the 60's, I don't see this quite as much with physicians today now that people are more into being their own advocates in their health care. Back then we would have termed this physician as having the 'God Complex.' It stemmed from Dr's who thought that they were always right and acted superior about it. (Even when they were 100% wrong lol) I know lots of regular folks who are like this too. Having self-esteem is a good thing, but when they feel they are superior to others with an over-inflated ego, that's when they have a definite problem relating to others.

No I can`t say that I have ever heard of that saying, butI can understand what she meant by it ...

Oh you mean Dr. High and mighty. Yes I have worked at a hospital where he practiced also!
I worked at our local hospital for 20 years. We had one who would yell at the nurses and the patients all the time. You could hear him comming. One time he had a horrible car accident and he was hospitalized on our floor. When a nurse would go into his room he would say "Are you one that I was mean to?" He know he thought his poop did not stick.
He is retired but I am sure there are more to take his place.
The worst is when you get doctors that are in a practice together and they brake up. The fighting and back biteing they do is horrible. It is worst then a couple of teenage girls. We have some that have been fighting for years.
I will get off my high horse now so you will not have to buy and sell me.
hahahaha

My mawmaw said something just like that, maybe worded differently, about a lady who always wore those stupid big hats with the feathers on it. She would walk her poodle to our yard and let it do its business and then walk away. Occasionally, she would make small talk like, if my grandaughter looked as filthy as yours did, I would have sold her to the gypsies, little girls just don't get dirty. Other times she would talk about how much that suit or dress she was wearing was. (Even though we just seen her buying it at a secondhand store.) I made sure that my little girls had access to dirt like I did when i was little. LOL it makes for better people to get your hands dirty!