Storage Wars On TV

Yes, bad stuff happens.

A good friend of mine had his seized while he was deployed in the First Gulf War.

He may have been right not to trust his girlfriend. He did not want to move his stuff into her place, his reasoning to her was that she had a small apartment with no room.

However, he made the mistake of trusting her to make those payments for him with the money he sent back.

The story does have a happy ending. The manager of the storage facility was sympathetic and grateful for his service. He helped him get everything back, which was moved to a "liquidation warehouse" to wait out the time required before it could be sold, auctioned off, donated, or disposed.

Most are gone through by the storage company or there employee. My brother goes to some in mo., they have a sell day,people show up for a auction on a # of units, they walk around to said unit #'s will cut the lock off and open door, you can look in the door but can not enter for 30 second to a minute, they will close the door and sell the contents of the unit. Then go the the next unit. But like you say some time the people have goten what they what and left the trash behind. But he has seen & bought cars, tool boxes, and has also found some coins. Has not found that home run yet

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In my opinion, the show is completely staged. I mean....really? Who in their right mind is going to leave a shoe-box full of silver quarters in a storage locker? No way!

I think the producers leave stuff in the lockers for the buyers to "find".

here in nyc there were a crew of guy going to high end storage units had a hook inside and rented tthe unit next to the big $$$$$$$$ units and cuting a hole in the tin wall and helping themselves to the GOODIES .....lol.

As long as you realize that every single shot on TV ever is scripted, edited, and shot in such a way as to maximize illusory/perspective effect.

Suppose you want to know what a certain coin looks like. So you look it up in a book. The image is in color and shows off all luster, but you're not seeing the coin in hand. You're seeing pixels assembled in such a way that they resemble a coin. Then you want to take the image home from the library, so you have to scan it (pixelation), and then print it (more pixels). Every process you go through adds more "filters". Even using your eyes you can see pixels of light if you really try to see past your own perspective that has been taught to you and then moulded to customize your mind. The best way is to just go and experience so that there are no filters except for your senses, which already are deceiving.

People are strange creatures. Before my brother and his wife bought their house, they rented a place from the father of one of her friends. When he retired he moved out of the area and rented the house out, he left some stuff in the attic and the shed out back. They only used the shed to store the lawnmower because of the stuff he had in there. They eventually found their own place, about a week before they moved the old man passed away. His family came up to clean out the shed and attic because they were selling the house.

Guess what he did with most of his spare change? He'd dump it into oven roaster pans, when one got full he'd fill another. While his family was cleaning out the shed, they found 8 of those roasters in the back full of coins including some silver. he never even kept a lock on the shed.