Britney Spears Donates Clothes
TV’s How I Met Your Mother launches a charity auction

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Britney Spears, who appears in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, has donated some of her wardrobe from the TV show to be sold by auction for charity.

On the episode called Everything Must Go, Lily and Marshall face their financial troubles head on. With Marshall out of his evil corporate job, their future tied up in an apartment that's in desperate need of renovations because it was built on an incline, and Lily's credit card debt nearly $100,000, the Eriksens are in trouble. It's been building for weeks and it reaches a boiling point tonight when they realize everything must go.

They set up an online auction at a site called lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com. The twist here is that the website auction is for real. The creators of the show have set up the site and will raise money for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles [childrenshospitalla.org] by selling Lily and Marshall's props and costumes.

On the same episode, Britney Spears reprises her role as Abby, the receptionist who may or may not be Barney's next conquest. Some of her wardrobe is also to be sold at the online auction. The auction site will last two weeks.

This is a win-win for fans of the show. You can, perhaps, grab a cool collectible from one of the best comedies on TV and do something nice for charity, too. I can't imagine that there'll be junk up there either; Lily's been buying designer shoes and purses (we've been told), and Marshall has some fun stuff, too. I'd bid on his black hat from the wedding, wouldn't you? lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com