I had to work today and sent my 21 year old son to the auctions at PS.  He is not an experienced auction goer and the last time he bid against himself running himself up to $1000 on a unit when the last other bid was at $600. Well today he bought 3 units at the first place. I have not seen them yet but I thought I would open a thread and try to post some pictures as we get into them. He claims they are all outside units and he paid about $300 for all 3.  Or as he told me $50 for one $175 for one and he can't remember the other one.  Not much detail what is in them he did say one had a lot of boxes and I love boxes.  I think he did okay as all the outside units at that place are at least 10X15 so they must be bigger units. Check later tonight for updates. Oh and it was my money so its my stuff he gets the scrap that is his only source of income as he is going to school.

Myself I woudl have probably told the woman that I had moved everything and would only sell it on a piece by piece basis. 

Great find I have never found a gun worth more then $100 in a locker. You have $1000 in guns there and that is a conservative estimate on a good day you might get a lot more. Nice safe to. 

I normally take ordinary books to half price books.  They pay poorly but the last batch I took I got $60 all from the same unit and when I got it I was upset because most of the books were taped together!  I figured they were all junk. They came apart okay only ruined a few. Lot of books on Martial arts and Yoga as well as health nut books. I was happy I bet I could have got more selling at a flea market but it would have been a lot more work. Last summer on a very hot I found a garage sale with everything marked free. I took all the books ran them down to half price books and got $33.  Paid for my gas that day while treasure hunting. At garage sales and flea markets you can get .50cents to a dollar a book thats about it for most books.  Now for valuable books ebay or half.com especially text books.  My best one was a complete set of the Warren Commision Report in the original boxs with a shipping address of the state department. I got over $2K for them on ebay. That was an exceptional deal the unit was rented by the son of a retired medical examiner who had died 20 years before and he apparently could not get rid of anything.

Went on my favorite PS auctio run yesterday the crowd was big about 40 people.  Lot of new people and prices were all over the place. I paid $125 for a unit a 5 X 10 with some car parts showing but not much stuff in it.  Well when I got into it I found the guy was a Mazda freak.  There were almost 300 new Mazda sparkplugs, there are a lot of other new and used Mazda parts as well. If I do not get $1000 out of this locker it is because I did not try hard there are almost 200 plugs that the ebay price is $9.50 each! 
The other locker was a 5X10 about half full some cement finishing tools showing a car top carrier and a I could see a camo coat. The unit was poorly packed and messy.  I paid $325 for it and was kicking myself for spending that much. I just liked the look of it it was a mans unit but I figured I would lose money on it paying that much. Well on cleanout I found a small gas chainsaw, a Vitamixer, 9 good fighting knives worth $30 to $40 each), some brand new USA made hip waders, fair number of small tools, lots of military uniform items, and I am not done sorting it all. I will have no trouble making money on it but there was 16 years worth of bills and a bunch of newspapers so the dump fees will be high probably $50. 
Those were the only 2 units that really interested me I looked at 17 units and bid on 3. There were a lot of really bad units and some of them went for $40 or $50 dollars. They were worth $1.  The other unit I bid on I bid $1 and it went for $5. 
I long for the old days when $100 would have bought most 5X10s.

Just wait till you find a package of Bologna that has been in storage for 6 months. Or my personal favorite was the 10 year old ketchup ever seen black ketchup?  Of course the baby sheets with poop in them was pretty bad to but it was dried out. Then there was the time was pulling stuff and grabbed a dead rotten rat by the tail.  Boy did that stink. I coudl go on o and on about the gross ugley smelly stuff but who want to hear stories about used sanitary napkins.  I like it when you find clothes in the drawers sometimes it means treasure still left in the drawers as well. 

Now no one wants rockets so I am on to airplanes.

I bought a 10 X 30 that looked ugly for $40.  Turned out to be someones dump.  Worse thing was it had flooded and about half the 20 matrresses were wet.  Spent $200 at the dump got nothing back.  I think it was another locker bidder getting the $1 move in special then loading it up with trash. I found boxes with floorsweepeing including cut locks and personels from about 4 different people. 
Thats not the only locker I have lost money on but it sticks out as the most work expended in cleaning out a unit and getting nothing.