With the recent invetion of Netflix, I’ve pretty much lost my live in TV again.  The show that seams to be taking over my life the most is Storage Wars. Here’s how the show goes, a group of about five to ten people show up storage facilities to bid in an auction to buy abandoned or reposesed units. They bid on the container without knowing what’s inside and afterwards, whoever wins hopes that they can sell what they just bought for more than they paid. Sounds simple enough, it’s just that sometimes people find the coolest stuff! One time, some guy found an antique 10K marine ring in storage unit that was worth five hundred dollars!

Watching the show so often finally pushed me to try it out. So, the other day I got online and started looking for storage unit auctions in my area. It wasn’t hard finding the auctions, but it was little harder than I was epxecting to push myself to go to one. But I finally did. I thought it was going to be this huge crowd but when I got there it was just me and a few other guys. I was expecting the whole ordeal to be like the TV show, but it was honestly just like the same storage unit getting auctioned off again and again. Big orange door, not a lot of floor space and totally cramped with stuff.

By the last unit, I still hadn’t bid on anything. So, I was really pumped about the last container and just decided to win it. Nobody really bid on it though since they had already bought their own and I got it for a little above a hundred bucks. When I finally went through and tried to find some things worth selling, I was surprised. Most of it was bull riding gear. Hats, gloves, spurs, big vests and even a saddle! I had no idea what it was worth then but eventually I’d take it to a pawn shop and get about 150 dollars for all of it (it was a TON of stuff). Then, there was this big box of what looked like lanterns and they turned out to be cat urns! I don’t know if this guys dipped his hands in a failed business or what but they were weird. I was able to sell most of them on ebay for about 20 bucks a piece so they weren’t bad buys. All in all I made about three hundred dollars off something I spent a little over a hundred for. So, it was worth it. I think everyone should give it a try at least once…