In the lockers that I've bought this year, an overwhelming number of them have sort of followed a story of divorce. I've found divorce decrees, marriage counseling info, etc. in many units. The next most popular story line that I've pieced together is death. I've had 2 lockers that had lots of letters to and from prisons. A few lockers with no particular rhyme or reason. I assume these people either moved out, moved on, or were unable to pay their bills.

My favorite auctions these days are Storage Auctions Online.  I have seen units go as low as 30 dollars per unit all the way up to 3,000 dollars.  They even have pictures of the contents of the unit.  Just a new tip I found out recently.

Thanks for the tip. 

I would imagine that you're only displaying the really nice stuff for your grand opening.

How did you go about determining what went in and what stayed out....or did you leave that to wifey? 

We actually are able to get most of our stuff out. We do have miscellaneous stuff in the back still, but we're trying to figure out how to get some more out. But yes, it is mainly the wife's decision on what goes out where.. I'm glad to relinquish that responsibility to her.

I agree, we did make some sales off the traffic the other businesses had coming in, but it wasn't our targeted demographic. So, I think we could have been successful, but not AS successful as we could potentially be where we are now.

Just to give you an idea, where I am now is in eye shot of a weekend churh, they rent a space in the preschool, the preschool, Apex Latino Affairs office, a bill pay center/Cricket dealer, insurance agency, and I have a Mexican restaurant just up the road as well as 2 taco trucks in neighboring plazas, also a Galaxy Foods near the Mexican restaurant. A wide variety of folks who are typical thrift store shoppers.

Slat wall was already up as were nails throughout the store. I had to buy slat wall shelf brackets (4=$12), waterfalls(7=$21), a slat wall shelf ($8), 2 dowels ($6) and 2 shelves (MDF from Home Depot at $10 a sheet, cut in half)

All free standing shelving, bookshelves etc. were from storage units. I'll need a bunch more hooks and shelving I suspect as we grow, but I'm hoping to pull more stuff from storage units.

Thanks! My goal is to donate a portion of the profits to a different charity each quarter. If we get super popular, it'll be a monthly donation. This way, we get new people into the shop to support their charity on a constant basis and hopefully some of those will swing back through even when their charity is not featured.

122,692  is nothing to a guy with as much money as Dave Has. Its funny that they would settle attorney fees with so many parts of his suite pending

My guess is the $122k hurts Dave more than you think!