I wonder if there is a way I can save up all those old console TVs and microwaves I get and ship them down to you to sell? Maybe fill a Uhaul truck and drive it down? Cause around here them things go straight to the dump! (TVs & small appliances, some microwaves can be sold) Where I live you can put relatively good shape George Forman grilles and other like small kitchen appliances on the tables at the flea for $1-$2 and they will still sit for weeks before they sell.

Your George Foreman grills are my breadmakers.  Can't give those suckers away.  I actually bought a bread mix the other day for my breadmaker......ouch!  Can see why they don't sell.  But boy howdy that bread tasted good!

Can get a minimum of $5 for a GF grill.  What amazes me are the box fans.  You can buy one new for $8 at Walmart and every time we get one, Don says $5.  I say 'your nuts'.  And the next thing I know.....the fan's sold for $5.  Weird what folks will pay almost retail for. 

Like I said......most of our stuff like that heads to Mexico~

And NO!  to the tv's being hauled down to me.  While they sell.......I hate moving them!  They weigh a flippin' ton!

Things that go straight to the dump:
2005 or older TVS
Matress / Boxspring
Pillows

Ewww on the pillows.  I hate those!  We did sell a mattress & box spring that I thought was icky, but it was a tempurpedic and it flew outta here.  Actually wish I had asked more.
Now older tv's~we can sell all day long (but dirt cheap) as they head 60 miles south to the border.  I don't think we've pulled a newer than '05 tv out of a locker yet~

Anything you know you can sell. Us furniture. With the lockers and misc. stuff you learn what sells. Us Kids clothes.

I love me some tools!  I can sell those all day long and small appliances.  Dang you can't keep a microwave on a table at our favorite swap meet. 

I think the next time I see framed art in a unit, I'm going to simply run away!

I HATE VHS movies.  I can't give those things away!  Well actually I did at our yard sale Saturday.....but I had to beg him to take them!

An update on my Tons of Fun unit:
Most of the 'collectibles' are not worth much.  Maybe $100 when is all said and done.  Antique furniture perhaps $150 or so.  I did sell an old table to a buddy.  He also wants the crate, but I'm gonna try to squeeze a few extra dollars from craigslist first.  

All in all~we'll make money on the unit and cover the cost of the icky unit bought the same week.  Our gravy will be the Toulouse Lautrec litho that we should get around $400 for.  

The digging was fun, but the selling?
I'd rather move microwave ovens and Dewalt drills~

Wow~sounds like a good start to the new year.  That first unit was full of all the things I love to sell....namely tools!  We can't keep 'em in stock if they are good quality.

My husband had a unit where they were allowed to walk through.  Not much to see, but there was a Stihl chainsaw (obviously older model), a few totes/boxes, a Yamaha surround sound speaker set and a Roper side by side in very icky condition.

He won the locker at $125.  The regulars all shook their heads and gave the old 'you paid too much'.  He opened on box and found the old German WWII items.  Score!!

pound for pound~that was one of our best units.  We're still making money off that one.  The fridge he thought he'd just scrap.  I said see if it works and then we'll decide.  That thing got ice cold quick.  I spent a day cleaning it out (I swear they were keeping small furry animals in there.......yikes the memory just made me queasy) and we sold it for $85.

Congrats justa and may your next venture out find you regular-free~

Best friend loves Toulouse Lautrec. 

Can I interest them in a litho?
It's funny~I had heard the name, but knew little about him.  Don was like 'who?'.  So yesterday at the auction I shouted out to the crowd of about 60 "Does anybody know who Toulouse Lautrec is?"  Not one person did.  A bit later a guy showed up and I asked him and he said "all I know is they've done a movie or two about him and he's a little French guy."

Apologize in advance for the length~
We finished up our busy week today by attending a couple auctions in the final caravan of the week.  Crowd was too large and since we had already purchased two units this week, just bowed out and cleaned out our 10th locker.

This was a 10X20 that Don purchased yesterday, as mentioned in the Auction Scene thread.

Well.....almost all the furniture was either particle board and/or broken, (cigarette) burned or chewed on.  So chances of making anything there is pretty nil.  There were two chests in this unit and inside the cedar one (which we have to repair) we found........
Lots of stuff!  And not all dirty clothes either.  The first thing my daughter sees is an iced tea jar full of pennies.  Maybe $5 there.  There was an adorable jewelry box (with some jewelry), a cool tiger head planter (from Italy), an alpaca toy (that is obviously imported and neat) and an urn.  Yep.....my first time with remains.  We did open it to make sure.  She was in there.

We also found a large propane patio heater and an electric air-conditioning unit, plus lots of gardening items, some crystal pieces that will be easy to sell and a nice flatware set in the wood box.  We'll recoup the cost of the locker on these items alone.

Other items found and if anybody has any idea on values.....I'd be quite appreciative:
~9 neat menus from 1962 on the SS Hanseatic Hamburg-Atlantic Cruise Line.  A Sun-way cruise to the West Indies.  They have some of the neatest artwork featuring native people in  pen and water-color.  Too neat.  Probably not worth much, but I LOVE them!
~Numerous silver-plate items including a couple wm rogers and a 'Newport fish knife' that has an antique mall tag of $45 and dated 1880..
~We went through all the jewelry and found quite a bit of silver to go with that from my mineral unit.  Not much gold and very little of any value.  When I was digging through the file cabinet I found several appraisals for jewelry and lo and behold~there was a piece that we had in the 'I'm not sure' pile.  Turns out it has approx. 1.255 mm seed pearls, 7 diamond cluster set and is 14K.  It appraised for $595 back in 94.  As soon as we 'identified' it, I told Don "Quick!!!  Find me the watch from the appraisal!!"
~We also found two stock certificates from 3-1962 and 6-1962 for American Telephone and Telegraph Company!  Odds are they've been cashed in and even if they haven't I know nothing about obtaining 'ownership' or if that is even possible.  They were issued to Joan (who was a sassy lass born with a silver spoon in her mouth, traveled the world and hung with the boys.  I think she was somebody I would have loved to have talked with).  Her daughter Lana died of lung cancer.
~There were some interesting art pieces.  A couple wood carving/paintings from the West Indies, including the coolest mermaid.  A neat print (or perhaps litho?) of Joan of Arc (Sainte Jeanne d'Arc).  It was (very professionally) framed in Cedar Rapids Iowa and the label on the back looks old.  And a litho of Eldorado by Toulouse Lautrec.  It says on the back of the frame that it is a colored litho, plate, initialed.  There were also a couple other paintings, originals, but I doubt they have value.  I haven't really investigated the art much, as after my Pablita Velarde deal....I hate art!  Oh there was also a Navajo sandpainting....that one should be easy here.

I know we'll (easily) recoup the $250 spent, but like my mineral locker......I'm left with lots of questions and not a ton of items that I can turn and burn.  I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the items of interest, but dang.....this is almost novel length as is.

This is the largest amount of items we have to return to the facility, as there were tons of photographs (we enjoyed viewing those from Joan's wild and wooly days), legal docs and of course the urn.
As I told Don......this unit is anything but boring~

If you have any info on (any of) the aforementioned items, we'd truly appreciate the input.

Always have that yes we are going to do good on this and then after you get closer looks start questioning Oh I hope we break even.

Part of the biz.

Whew~glad to hear that as we do that on EVERY unit we buy.  I was starting to question if we were cut out for this.

B-L-S-H~best of luck to you!  Keep digging and figuring.  Nickle and dimes do add up.  Just kinda stinks when you feel you're working for peanuts.

We bought a stinker on Tues, but Don got a pretty decent one yesterday.  It will help offset the cost/return column for the year, but dang that Tues unit is gonna be one of those "what were we seeing" lockers......