A new car, some second-hand furniture and a wooden box to spend eternity in.

Queanbeyan resident David Gregory has turned to Gumtree to be rid of a coffin that has been taking up space in his workshop, and it’s been incredibly popular.

“I had a phone call within the first five minutes of putting the ad up,” Mr Gregory said.

The coffin is for an average sized person Mr Gregory said and has a heavy lid held in place with six screws.

“You’d have a bastard of a time getting out,” he joked.

Mr Gregory can see the lighter side of the matter but he said many people often feel uncomfortable when they see it.

“It doesn’t worry me at all,” he said.

“We’re all going to end up in one eventually.

“Life is too serious, you’ve got to be able to have some fun with it.”

But while some may find it a little morbid the coffin has quite an interesting back story.

Mr Gregory picked it up from a friend of his a few years ago to complete a horse-drawn hearse he had built by hand.

Mr Gregory, who constructs wooden furniture professionally, has been rebuilding horse-drawn carriages since he was 16. He has a carriage entered in a competition at this weekend’s Sydney Royal Easter Show.

The hearse required a coffin to be labelled complete before it could be entered in any shows.

However it always drew attention wherever it went, Mr Gregory said, with people even crossing the road to avoid it.

Mr Gregory did use the hearse once for a funeral at the Woden cemetery.

But despite labeling the coffin “pre-loved” online he said to the best of his knowledge the coffin had never been used.