24 Craziest Self-Storage Auction Finds
Downsizing definitely comes in all shapes and sizes. When people go bankrupt, they often lose everything not protected by state bankruptcy exemptions. Those with self-storage units may lose anything and everything in storage. Check out the bizarre and lucrative finds!
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24 Craziest Self-Storage Auction Finds
Downsizing definitely comes in all shapes and sizes. When people go bankrupt they often lose everything! In the case of those with storage units, that often means a ‘foreclosure’ on anything (and everything) in storage. Remember: if you don’t pay your bill for three consecutive months, your stuff might go up for auction to the highest bidder.
The Most Bizarre Items
- Several shrunken heads (that turned out to be fakes)
- A toilet filled with dirt, with a plant growing in it
- A piggy bank in the shape of a gorilla eating a banana
- Pickled chicken’s feet
- 27 smashed television sets
- 5,000 pieces of the Berlin Wall
- A coffin
- A tanned crocodile skin
- Boxes of sorted recyclable bottles and cans
- 100 small boxes of pornographic DVDs
- A collection of rat traps with tiny toy dolls pinned on them
- A mattress with a chalk outline of a body on it
The Greatest Treasures
- $100,000: Packs of vintage baseball and football cards
- Worth Thousands: Two gold and silver coin collections
- $10,000: Harley-Davidson Fat Boy motorcycle
- Worth Thousands: 1970 Shelby Cobra
- $20,000: Antique rickshaw
- Worth Thousands: Vintage GMC pickup truck
- $4,000: BMW Isetta Microcar
- $1,200: Vintage tandem bicycle
- $15,000: A letter written by Abraham Lincoln
- $1,200: 25 antique Barbie dolls (worth $40-$50 apiece)
- $8,500: Cruise missile engine
- $5,000: Suge Knight custom made clothes
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30 Sep, 2011
Those are some crazy and wonderful things to find in a storage unit. I have found some icky stuff too. My very first unit, I was such a newbie, I found lots of trash and used condoms that were strewn all over the floor. Tip for first timers, BRING GLOVES when you are cleaning out your auction wins.