Ok, so Thursday started the Clothing/Kids consignment sale.  $50 the first day, $100 yesterday and equal to $120 today, but Saturday is Half Price day, so only realizing $60...Grand total $210.  I ended up deciding to donate most if the things that didn't sell so I don't have to store them until the fall BUT I still have about 50-100 more items to take to the Fall sale.

All in all I am very pleased with my locker.  Don't let anyone tell you it is easy to get rid of things because it isn't...it is work!!!  I didn't think to track how much time I spent washing, cleaning, and tagging everything  for sale. Next locker I will have to do that....
Kathy

Well, I have finally gone over all but the salt and pepper shakers.  There were 100+ bells (so far absolutely no interest in them anywhere), 10 Pitcher and bowl sets (sold 5 sets for $23 on E-bay) I don't know how many yards of fabric, about 50 - 60 pieces at 1yard or more, but have most of it listed on a website I set up a number of years ago to sell "things" and sold 12 pieces for over $100 the first day it was posted.  7 loads of wash produced 200+ items listed (so far - still have 3 loads of clothes to sort and list) for a resale event on March 29-31st...priced total comes to $537.00 with the the highest price being $7.50, most items are priced at $2 or $3.  With what is left to price, I anticipate about $750 (my asking price total) if full price is paid, which it won't as the last day of the sale we can have the itmes get marked down 50%, so for grins we will say $375 from the resale event...Then there is the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas things I won't even start to process until fall....
$25 for the unit, $34 for rental, $26 for locks = $85 costs
$23 for pitchers, $100 for fabric, $375 for resale event = $498
$413 estimated profit...
OOOHHHHH I forgot, MORE CASH FOUND!!!!  While doing wash, some bills washed out of pockets, so I more than doubled my cash find with two crisp$1 bills...cast take $3.85!!!!!!!!

I have attended a few more auctions this month, but with 100 - 150 peple, I am not going to waist my time until summer when I will be out of a job.  The few acutions I have been to, and sitting down to work out a plan and the results I have had on this one small locker, I plan on going into this full time once my job ends.  It really does take time to process everything and working full time doing something OTHER this processing is very hard.  I will be working the resale shops for the Bells and the S/P shakers, even if I sell them for $20 for the lot of each, I will make $$$.

Kathy
mysalecloset.com is my website if you want to see any of the bells...

 >:(Dave - what an a$$...it make you hope that stack of newspapers were worth squat!!!!!
Barry - kind of a goobery gut.  I think he has too much time and $$$ on his hands to know what to do with...if he wants to send some $$ to me to by lockers for him, that would be great!!!
Darryl - the nice bad a$$ of the group.  I liked the fact he told Jarrod about the safe and didn't try to scam him out of the locker for a fraction of what was paid (like Dave would do) knowing the safe had value.
Jarred and Brandi - I think they are kind of a cute couple, and I believe much smarter than they are leading on to not be...  I think they are dumbing Jarred up some to let Brandi come of as the non-bimbo of the two.

If the 4 I like Jarred/Brandi and Darryl about equal.

It was a GREAT locker... "WHOOP!!!" and I did the happy dance in the office as I walked in and the manager just smiled...

My first acution was on the 18th and was what I expected - almost 100 people to look at 14 lockers, the first a 5x5 going for $250; after 6 units I left as it was too rich for my blood...

Today was a different story  only 10 people for 6 units  - first unit had a nice bed frame and a boflex like machine that was brand new...didn't sell. I would have bid the $20 they were asking but had no way to transport it...I may check with the facility tomorrow to see if I can make an offer... the next 3 were all the same owner that was a contractor (full of doors, windows and construction stuff) same person got all 3 for $275 if I'm not mistaken.  #4 was the crem-dela-crem...a 5x5 stacked high and as full as it could be.  Mostly boxes, duffle bags and a few plastic shopping bags you could not really see what was in them.  Started off at $50, no takers....$30, no takers, so I offered $15, then someone bid $20, I bid $25 and got it!!!!!!!!!!!!    The last locker was a 5 x 10 saw a twin bed and a few other things and I walked away.  It went for $15. I figured I would not be greedy and be happy with the locker I got!!!

I spent about 2 hours in 20ish degree temps looking through the boxes trying to see what treasures I now own... in the few things that jumped out at me, I am looking at around $150 for 4-6 items.  That does not count the big storage tub full of china/ceramic/glass bells, or the bit storage tub full of salt and pepper shakers, or the big storage tub full of tableware, or the big storage tub full of new Christmas balls and orniments....they were all behind the cardboard boxes!!!!!!! These tubs are like 36x24x18 if I have to guess.  Even if I only get $1.00 per bell and per S/P set, I'm looking at a good $200 plus the $150, then there are all of the clothes (taking to a resale shop) I realisticly think this may be close to $500 after all is said and done.... I'll keep everyone posted once I get a full inventory!!!  I did rent the locker for the month, so my total hard cost/investment at this point is right at $85 so that is almost 5x return!!!    ...Next auction is 2/10...

Oh...I almost forgot, the $185 in cash.....

well, no, $1.85 and counting!!!

I hope to attend my first auction this next week.  I am hooked on Storage Wars and have always thougt it would be interesting to go to the auctions.  My folks owned a print shop and we had a copuple of customers that owned storage units, so were hearing about the various things that were left andthen auctioned off.

One site I am looking at shows the locker owners and a list of some of the items.  I recognize a name, thinking it is the Xhusband of a former co-worker/friend of my husbands.  We have not been in touch with the "friend " in 8-10 years.  Have any of you ever bid on a unit that you thought/knew you knew the owner? and if so, how close of friend were you?  Did you try to contact them if you found anything personal (other than what you are required to turn into the management office)?  I have mixed feelings of bidding on the unitl but if it is a good one, I don't want to pass it up.  Do they identify the owner at the time of auction?
Thanks
Kat