How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry

Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by patentatt on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:52AM (#16707030)

Yeah, I've seen the reality TV shows where they auction these things off, even the cherry-picked units for TV are like 1/2 absolute junk that literally goes strait into a dumpster.

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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by jcater on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:14AM (#16707208)

Sure, but that's a somewhat self-selecting group of units -- ones that the renters let fall behind and get auctioned off.

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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by bluGill on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:45PM (#16710438)

In fact that is one solution to the junk problem sometimes recommended: if you are not sure put something in a storage unit, pay rent for a year. Anything you haven't gone back for in a years must not be important so let them clean it out for you. In theory you could clean it our yourself for more value (craigslist/ebay), but you run the risk of trying to justify keeping something.

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