Locker wars?
I guess, as a recreation, it’s no worse than scanning the lists on eBay or Craigs. Auctions, I mean. I’ve not been a person with the time (or money) to hang out in barns, waiting for the deal of a lifetime. Tonight, on one of the higher cable channels, I found a variation.
Pardon my innocence, but do people really go and bid on the contents of storage lockers? Other than on TV, I mean. A family member recently referred to the activity on Facebook, but I just assumed that I’d misunderstood. After all, isn’t the point of renting a locker that you want the stuff inside and intend to continue ownership?
Based on the TV show, there’s a world of treasure, waiting to be discovered. Imagine, a small room full of cardboard boxes of trash AND a locked safe. Gets you ‘a tinglin’… if you’re apt to throw money on surprises. At least, with Crackerjacks, there was some popcorn to plug up the plumbing.
Maybe, in my golden years, I’ll start watching the newspaper for announcement of a yard sale, or an estate liquidation, where I can wander up and down the rows perusing the goods and calculating a proper bidding point. But the idea of paying money to go through the clearances of somebody’s basement… not so much. Must be my practical side.
Think about it. If the local box store offered boxes of stuff, sealed and without branding, would you be willing to pay real money up front? Me neither.
In the case of the safe, it was as empty as the boxes around it. And worse, you now own a safe that needs to be stored (or sold). The premise that an old safe is worth real money comes down to “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
