Sydney tradie buys a casket, tries to sell it in Facebook group for $2000 but is hit with criticism

A shopaholic tradie has run into trouble with his wife after she told him his $3,000 impulse buy had no place in their home.

Sydney man Jeremy Bourke took to a buy, sell and swap group on Facebook to post a photo of a bronze metal casket he had recently forked out thousands of dollars for.

In the now-deleted post, Mr Bourke said he needed to offload the brand new coffin and suggested buyers could chuck their wives into it free of charge.

Mr Bourke found himself in hot water when he brought the casket home and showed his wife, who swiftly told him to get rid of it.

The coffin was originally bought for $3,000 but the regretful tradie wrote he was now willing to get rid of it for only $2,000, accepting $1,000 loss for his costly mistake. 

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After bringing the literal casket home he was swiftly told to get rid of it by his wife who didn’t want it in the house

The coffin was originally bought for $3,000 but the regretful tradie is willing take a $1,000 loss to get rid of it

‘Bought it for the man cave but the missus (sic) doesn’t want it in the house. Especially after I told her I bought it for her … hahaha,’ he wrote.

‘I don’t plan on dying anytime soon, so I gotta get rid of it.’

Mr Bourke said he had brainstormed a number of ideas on what to do with it and had hoped to ‘use it as a tool box on the ute for a laugh’ but his wife told him it needed to go.

The tradie then asked any interested buyers to grab it from Strathfield, in Sydney’s inner west, and suggested ‘can throw the wifey in for free!’

His comments were immediately labelled offensive by users on the Facebook page while others were amused at his bizarre purchase. 

‘What a creep,’ one wrote.

‘Why not use it to bury these misogynistic “jokes”?’ one woman hit back.

‘Peak boomer humour’ a third wrote.