• Anticorp
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    1 year ago

    Idk, it seems plausible to me. Why would anyone pay hundreds of dollars per month to store junk? Then they die, or end up in jail, or whatever, and next of kin doesn’t know about the locker, and bammo! You just bought a dirt bike for $300! I think it probably was an okay way to spend a weekend before the shows led to everyone going to the auctions and driving the prices of a locker up. But you really do need an eBay store, or a physical thrift store, because it’s not easy to sell 20 old toaster ovens, and a used suit.

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      Some people are just really weird, I used to work for a real estate company that has really big storage buildings for rent, they’re designed for like storing rvs in the off season. Rent was something like 1000 bucks a month. One guy rented 3 of those lockers year round literally just to store Santas. Like life size Santa statutes and shit. Dude paid 3k a month for that.

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        1 year ago

        They must have been for a business that rents out Santas or something.

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      The reason people pay to store junk is they get attached to the junk. Then they’re homeless for a bit, just staying on someone’s couch. They need storage then. Then they get themselves an apartment but it’s such a pain to move all their stuff or they don’t have a car so they put it off.

      Then their money gets tight, and they can’t afford the storage unit. But also can’t afford to empty it. They miss a payment or two, and a lock gets put on the unit. You can’t empty your unit when you’re behind on the bill. You have to settle up before you can empty it. So the monthly fees keep accruing and eventually they have the right to sell the unit.

      You’re not allowed to participate in that auction (because then you could just get your stuff).

      Storage places are allowed to use your stuff as collateral, so the stuff ends up for sale any time anyone can’t afford to keep their stuff. And most people’s stuff is junk so that’s why people spend hundreds to store it.

      I lost all my junk in the above way, and it was a blessing. But at no point would I have consented to lose my junk, including at the start when the choice as toss all my junk in the trash, or pay hundreds to store it.