Bob Geppardt
11-12-2006, 12:20 PM
OMG.
How truly mortifying and embarrassing.
Adam and I have come up with a cool way for a second income. No not Flying Dildos, but attending auctions at the local storage units that are held to empty out storage lockers that are badly in default.
Fun part is most are blind auctions, and you spend very little money to obtain all articles within say, like 2-3 lockers. Most of the articles you find are garage sale type crap or things that after sorting and sorting, need to be curbed.
However, in all the lockers we have purchased, we have uncovered little goodies such as a $200 Tiffany Vase, etc. If you have the ability to refurbish antiques, fine jewelry, and furniture, You will turn around your investment in no time via Classified ads and Ebay. Of course, once in a while yu realize that you have been awarded a locker that belonged to someone that has passed, and you do feel inclined to return items such as an obvious heirloom to the family if locatable. It is a job.
As it takes me 2 days of sorting after Adam returns from an auction with his loot, I recruited his neice to help me sort and offer her a percentage of sales. Eager to help and to see if I had items she could use for her new condo, she began sorting through boxes, last evening.
Talk about personal items.
I hear a screech, a Buzzing sound, a thump, a bang and a roll.
Low and behold I see a very life-like, so much so, that it could have been an amputation, LARGE rubber man's dingaling being tossed like a hot potatoe as she did not know how to react to such a shock.
What have I learned?
Use gloves while searching for the cherries in our loot.
DO not have children around, as we also uncovered a bag of very illegal
recreational substance powdery stuff in a jewelry box loaded with
expensive jewelry, and had to call for assistance to dispose as the amount
was quite, well, plentiful
have ready, Lysol, Bleach, and space in a garage or exterior building for sorting
If you ever get a storage locker watch what you store, you could croak and embarass your children to no end.
How truly mortifying and embarrassing.
Adam and I have come up with a cool way for a second income. No not Flying Dildos, but attending auctions at the local storage units that are held to empty out storage lockers that are badly in default.
Fun part is most are blind auctions, and you spend very little money to obtain all articles within say, like 2-3 lockers. Most of the articles you find are garage sale type crap or things that after sorting and sorting, need to be curbed.
However, in all the lockers we have purchased, we have uncovered little goodies such as a $200 Tiffany Vase, etc. If you have the ability to refurbish antiques, fine jewelry, and furniture, You will turn around your investment in no time via Classified ads and Ebay. Of course, once in a while yu realize that you have been awarded a locker that belonged to someone that has passed, and you do feel inclined to return items such as an obvious heirloom to the family if locatable. It is a job.
As it takes me 2 days of sorting after Adam returns from an auction with his loot, I recruited his neice to help me sort and offer her a percentage of sales. Eager to help and to see if I had items she could use for her new condo, she began sorting through boxes, last evening.
Talk about personal items.
I hear a screech, a Buzzing sound, a thump, a bang and a roll.
Low and behold I see a very life-like, so much so, that it could have been an amputation, LARGE rubber man's dingaling being tossed like a hot potatoe as she did not know how to react to such a shock.
What have I learned?
Use gloves while searching for the cherries in our loot.
DO not have children around, as we also uncovered a bag of very illegal
recreational substance powdery stuff in a jewelry box loaded with
expensive jewelry, and had to call for assistance to dispose as the amount
was quite, well, plentiful
have ready, Lysol, Bleach, and space in a garage or exterior building for sorting
If you ever get a storage locker watch what you store, you could croak and embarass your children to no end.