each thing

“What if you just said what the premise was of each thing you were entering into, and both people said their take on it?” she said.

"It’s like Game of Thrones for pennies. I mean, as a first approximation, if you’ve got a $40,000 car and roughly 10,000 items in that car, that means each thing, on average, costs four bucks. So, in order to get the cost down, say, by 10%, you have to get 40 cents out of each part, on average. It is a game of pennies ... It does feel like digging a tunnel with a spoon at times."

That means four dishes of each thing, followed by another four, followed by another four.

“So I’ll make my auction tell a story, where the sum total of all the pieces actually gives you an idea of how the collector thinks, how these things were chosen, and that each thing has a personal relationship to me — that it means something,” he said.

They asked young athletes to rate how important each thing was to their enjoyment of playing organized sports.