Auto Remove product after sale

I'm a new user of opencart and am feeling my way. Many of my products are unique, single items, that need to be removed from the site after a sale. I've discovered how to remove them manually, but am wondering if there is a feature that will remove products automatically from the product list when the "out of stock" condition is met? Or, preferably when the "shipped" status is selected? I have version 1.5.3 installed.

Thanks for your patience if this is an obtuse question.

There are several extensions for hiding out of stock items which should do what you want.

Thank you for your quick reply. I am not attempting to temporarily "hide" an out of stock item, I wish to automatically remove every sold product that reaches an out of stock condition.

Just hide them when sold, then every week or so, sort by stock status in admin and delete them. Not automatic, but would accomplish what you want very easily.

Thanks for the suggestion, that's a good temporary solution until someone figures out how to do it automatically.