When we walked up and saw about 70 other people.... we laughed..... ya, we were NOT getting a locker with this crowd......
our lucky number. The first locker that went up for a bid, was a pretty big locker, there was lots of furniture in it, and we didn't know how we would ever get the stuff home if we won. We didn't bid anyway. Then the second locker opened it's door, and it was all stuff in bins, about 3 bins high. A few people grumbled and said ugh garbage. Along the edge there was stuff from hotels, like the coffee in packages and some sugar? it was hard to see thru the bags. there was some garbage, Tim cups and such. We could see a bunch of suitcases that looked full, and then of course all the bins stacked neatly, but hid all their contens. So Dean bid.... and kept bidding, and then suddenly the auctioneer said, sold to ... and he pointed to Dean!! Are you kidding me... we got a locker!???? Being the newbs that we are we weren't sure what to do. Dean went to pay, and these guys said to me and Maddie, you can go in, it's your locker.. we said really? and opened the door to peak.. then we opened it up all the way and started looking opening some bins. We found books..... brand new, in the chapters bags, reciept sticking out of the bag. More books, and more books... the guys kinda stood around on the outside, and said they would guard us. One asked if we owned a store, we laughed and said, No we started watching Storage Wars. I asked if they had a store, and they laughed and said no same thing, TV. Then Dean came back and said "OMG, we didn't win the locker, we have to get out..." we all looked at each other stunned, and sheepishly closed the door, quickly walking away, hoping nobody saw us..." we were almost at the car, when we realized the guy paying for the locker in front of us was actually paying for another locker. So WE did win the locker!! lol NEWBS! so back we went to shuffle thru our treasure. We wondered what had happened to the owners to not come back and get their stuff out of the locker? We found all kinds of travel things like they had travelled the world, we found holiday t-shirts with price tags still on them, jewellery wrapped up in tissue in the bag from the exotic store it was purchased in, and travel books from .... you name it, everywhere! The suitcases had brand new fluffy towels, and the book bins were paked with rolls of toilet paper, and new socks!
from Mexico, a cute frame, all wrapped up
almost empty, just a few bins left. We did have a load of garbage from the locker, 100's of magazines, they were a couple of years old, so we didn't even look, just got rid of them.
more brand new books.....
once home Maddie piled all the books up on the table, there ended up being about 300 of them. Of that number, maybe 5 were used, and there were 2 bins of REALLY old books that we'll have to investigate.
then we discovered the kitchen stuff, brand new items in boxes...... and LOTS of them!!
the other kewl thing was little bags of money everywhere, tucked into corners, between things, all kinds of little bags. At first there were bags of pennies, and nickels, but we kept piling them up. When we added everything up there was 170 bucks! That almost paid back for the locker in cold hard cash, without lifting a finger.
I so wanted to develope these to see who owned the locker, but then we found a whole bag of pictures from one of their trips! Mystery solved, but where are they?? lost on a holiday? witness protection?? we all had many stories thru the day!
my new socks that were used as stuffing :-)
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