-I ain't sure Victurd has used deodorant recently... from the looks'a that title, whatever he's got up his sleeve probably stinks.
Haha.
In my lifetime, I think I have watched 5, maybe 10 minutes of Storage Wars. Apparently, the show first aired in 2010... there've been like five spinoffs... when I Wiki'ed it, Holy guacamole, I had no ID (that's how we Ozark hillbillies say that) the popularity of the show. The premiere show of the 2nd season totaled 5.1 million viewers, making it then A&E's most watched show, ever. No wonder there's more things on TV to watch than the sports I'd imagined "doesn't everyone watch sports?"
Wiki even listed over 30 'characters' viewers have come to know, love, hate, up close. Bidding fueds. Father son combos, hubby wife combos that breakup, end up bidding agin' one another. Cutthroat, so to speak.
I ain't gonna replay the show because, again, I've watched ten minutes of it. I guess Cali has a law (and probably many States similar) that after payment is 36 days in arrears, the storage owner can have an auction to git ridda the stuff so that he/she may again rent it out. Bidders get five minutes to look, but don't touch (or enter, then bid.
Notable finds on the show........... junk, junk, junk, junk, huge comic book collection, junk, fridge, junk, AC, three drawings by Pablo Picasso, clothes, junk, a letter written by Abraham Lincoln, junk, table, chairs, a human corpse wrapped in plastic, junk, freezer, junk, ladder, Paris Hlton's stuff, junk, TV, Return of the Jedi Jacket.. you know, your normal stuff.
Digging into storage in general.. we learn (or I learned) storage units average cost ranges from $40 a month to $250 and of course, dependent on size, location, temperature controlled, yada.
One can assume there are many sad song stories. Regular storage, not the show, we done talking about that! Like say, an elderly widowed person moves from home to a nursing home ("Don't sell ma' stuff, sentimental value in addition to regular value"_.. so.. in seven or eight years time, the queen bed, dining table, chairs, old style TV, candlesticks, trinkets, yada, accrue $24,000 or so running costs. Aye yai yai. (I wanna go back, have a redo, change my 'when I grow up I wanna", change ir from baseball player to storage unit place owner... geez, and, little to no labor costs)..
Victor, pick it up, dragging a bit. A quick self storage glance elsewhere talked about, a chop shop, people living in them, a Walter White-like Meth lab, a cat in a kennel from a divorce argument, eww, a guy in a freezer who had been murdered by his ex gf's son, and, grandma in her coffin 17 years after dying. Eww, eww, enough Victor, I agree.
So, what's the 3, 2, 1..Thanks for the memories crap?
I'm so glad you asked, thanks. I think we all love people. I think we all love history. I think we, in general, don't do a very good job in 'storage', remembering those that came before us. Thanks to relatives, yes, ancestry studies help, but like me, personally, haven't done a great job preserving things, stories, events, etc, from my son, sister, parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc.
We need more 'keep 'em alive' kinda things. Journals. Interviews NOW, whilst still here, pictures, pictures, pictures, videos, etc.
Some very basic suggestions from Google on pics:
I suck at stuff like that, but if helps you.. I'll feel better. How wonderful would it be to sit with a grandparent, learn about their parents... or even, sit with our folks, talk about nothing but their childhood. Too late for most of us, mebbe those behind us can do a bang up job into the future.
We the people, concentrate on stuff. It's just stuff. We the people needta concentrate on people.
Right Barbara?
Love, Victurd
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