WHO hasn’t spent ten minutes in the last year or so mentally poring over their old junk in the hope of digging up some relic from your childhood or long-forgotten holiday souvenir that could raise a few much-needed quid?

Certainly not the richest man in the world, you might, quite sensibly, reply.

Well you’d be wrong.

For Elon Musk, whose fortune stands at £190billion, (possibly £191bn by the time you read this) is having a a massive car-boot sale.

While the canny tech overlord probably wouldn’t sniff at a few extra bucks, the more pressing concern of his is to flog everything he can lay his hands on that references the old brand of Twitter, having changed the platform name to X.

The billionaire rebranded the site last month after buying it for £35bn in October and what has followed seems to be a comical garage sale with hundreds of random items going under the hammer next month.

On announcing the branding change, Musk tweeted: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

But it seems he didn’t want to stop there and included in the fire sale are hundreds of regular (and many not so regular) items from the now somewhat dysfunctional platform’s headquarters in San Francisco.

All bids are starting at just £20 ($25) so there is potentially the chance to grab some real bargains. Many of the listings are what you might expect from a large corporation office sale like chairs, printers and desks. But others are, quite frankly, bizarre:

An oil-painted celebration of Ellen DeGeneres’ super-A list 2014 Oscar selfie

Complete DJ booth and set-up

A bird-cage swinging sofa

‘The Lodge’ – A barn they decided to build in the office

This wall of vinyl

A Robin Williams mosaic photo of celebrity tribute tweets

Another oil painting this time of the ‘Four more years’ tweet

The auctions come after the Tesla mastermind had made significant job cuts, laying off over 50 per cent of the 7,000 staff, including four senior executives.

Last month 52-year-old Musk revealed that the company was still cashflow negative despite all of his cost cutting measures.

“Need to reach positive cashflow before we have the luxury of anything else,” Musk said in a tweet.