Life as a reseller / auctioneer / thrift store owner in the south. Business tips, storage auctions, estate cleanouts, picking, renting booths, online selling, online auctions, thrifting.
Hello from Chiang Mai! A new locker! Great! This is exactly the style of locker I like... A huge mess to search... There will be a lot of work, but a lot of "little treasures"! And who knows a big treasure in the boxes that remain to be searched... In any case a very good investment of $10
I see a lot of potential in this unit….I belong to a $1 Auction where we run auction from Sunday -Saturday, meet on Sunday and pick up and deliver our goodies, I also trash pick and find many nice things, I sell some of what I find, sometimes I give to people who need things, especially things for kids,😎👍🏼
If those ashes are a veteran you could always try to contact a service officer at your courthouse, see if he could be interred in the military cemetery. If they haven’t anyone to take them. You do have a lot of smalls in there, I really need to clear out my house! 😂
Lots of little gems...love the sterling shaker in the box of reels. At 31:48, the brown pottery is Marcrest. Oleg Casinni is "designer" crystal (NY based). At 41:15, the appeared to be a large copper penny. Those used to sell for a few dollars as a cool item, but lately, they've been appearing in coin cases for exceptionally good prices. Not sure if it a dream that they are worth more or have actually moved into collectible status.
Tale of Peter Rabbit! that came with the cabin my parents brought when i was 2 years old and when they sold the cabin 40 years later it was still in the magazine rack. I read that book many times, even when i was an adult to bring back memories, i only got there like once every other year and i would look to see if that book was still in the rack, my wife would shack her head at me.
I have been doing this since the 80's and you are correct. I have brought way more trashy units than units with good quality high end stuff in them. trashy units you can still make money on them and usually more because the other bidders go for the quality stuff only units so they tend to get bid up to high. sometimes you can find that hidden treasure in the junky looking unit that pays the whole unit off. Easier to score when you only pay $10 for a trash unit versus $1500 for a nice looking unit. Sometimes those higher price units are harder to recover from especially when they are staged units that look nice at first but turns out to be crap when dug into.
The cheap units are fun because they are stress free. As long as you stay away from the large garbage items like trash couches and mattresses then the cheap units can pay off big.
Love the unit love that desk, but I don’t do mid-century modern the crystals gorgeous unfortunately a lot of people don’t decorate with Crystal anymore, but it was beautiful thank you thank and you’re right hand Ann . tell her to leave that tree there. It was too heavy. Enjoy your day.
You should invest in a $10 set of lock picks. I get calls all the time to unlock storage units ands these so mole safes can be opened with a lock pick set very easily. You could also call century and they can give you the key code and any locksmith myself included can make you a key from the code for like 30 bucks. Then you can sell the safe instead of destroying it.
Hi from Chiang Mai! In the end, this was a pretty interesting locker! Not a home run of course, but it should still bring in enough to be worth it and finding all those items was pretty cool! Next!
totally a 90s unit with all that glass and crystal glassware. That was very big and collectible in the 90s, plus the newspaper events kinds of also puts it in the era.
When you find peoples cremated ashes what do you do with them? A nice idea is a little flower garden or big pot with a rose bush to empty the tin into and then dispose of the empty tin?
I don't get why people would resell porn stuff, I mean I can see some stuff, specialty topic and paperback books, but beyond that, it's just generic trash. As to self recorded non-porn tapes, talk to your local historical society, or if'n you have some time, search around online, there is actually some historical value in them, but no real monetary value, since depending on what they recorded, you get a good snapshot of the time period, info about local stores that are long gone, and so on.
