thanks for the welcomes!
Rollinradios: The $5 locker turned out good, I made just over $400 selling the stuff from it. It was at a PODS auction where there were only 6 bidders. The front looked like trash, and the other bidders all walked away from it saying they weren't paying to haul away someone's trash. There was broken wicker furniture, we could see a couple open boxes that had binders of paper, a few trash bags with broken stuff spilling out etc. It was winding down, and the auctioneer was going to end it with no sale, and he said 'last chance, anyone even at $5' and I bid. There was a guy with a big moving truck that bought all the other units, and I thought he might step over me and bid $10 once I bid the 5, but he didn't. Anyway, the reason I went for it was I was looking towards the back, beyond the garbage. I could see what I thought were 2 wooden hope chest type things (which it turns out they were, one was a Lane hope chest, but it had been damaged by the humidity and the inside drawer was broken) I could also see some plastic totes, and a couple items that were wrapped in moving blankets. Since I have access to a dumpster, I was not worried about hauling all the trash in the front away, and I figured the $5 gamble to see that stuff in back was more then worth it.
Turns out the 2 chests I saw were hope chests like I thought, but they'd been in a POD stored in FL's humid conditions and were both in very bad shape. I sold them to a lady that restores furniture for $30. The 2 items that were wrapped in blankets turned out to be antique end tables, they had some wicker work on the lower shelf, and pull out extensions. I sold those for $40 each at a yard sale. Inside the hope chests were some electronics had sparked hope that there were other toys. The pieces turned out to be from the Barbie Beach van, but were broken beyond salvage. One other tote was completely filled with little mini fanny packs from the airline LTU, which looking them up on the internet I found had merged with Air Berlin. They are red with the LTU logo in white, and have a blindfold for sleeping, a pair of socks, a shoe horn, and a little travel toothbrush. I thought they were an unusual item to find, and put the tote out at the yard sale with a 10 cents price...sold 5 to a lady that collects airline stuff. Still have a tote full.
anyway, I enjoyed the locker and was glad I gambled the $5.