New Obsession: Storage Wars

My last post about reality TV still stands true. I still think that people who do nothing should not be famous. They just perpetuate the annoying mentality that the more ridiculous you are the more money you can earn. That whole concept annoys me. I know I still watch it, but to be fair I am confined to my house.

Anyways, I stumbled upon this show called STORAGE WARS. The show concentrates on 4 men who have been in the "storage bidding business" for over a number of years. They each have their little nicknames, like "the gambler", "the young gun", and "the collector", to make the show a little more kitschy. The premise of the show is that a bunch of people go to storage units and bid on the contents. This is of course after the renter has been delinquent on their storage payments and so their belongings are up for auction. The crazy part is that the bidders are only allowed to look at the unit for five minutes and can't actually enter it, or open any of the boxes. So basically people don't know what they are bidding on. The show is like a cross between Lets Make a Deal and Antique Roadshow.

When each storage unit has been bidded on, the winning bidder rummages through his newest belongings. Here is the kicker, there are things in there that are worth THOUSANDS. On one episode the guy bidded on a unit for $450. Sadly he could have gotten it for less if he wasn't in a bidding war with another guy. But after winning a unit he didn't want, he lucked out and found out that the boxes in the back contained a crazy amount of sports memorabilia. So that $450 dollar unit made him over $5,000.

So what makes this reality show different from others? Well reality shows come in two categories: 1) People who do something 2) People who do nothing. For example, the people on storage wars, the bidding, the units, the stuff they sell- this is their livelihood. Its their bread and butter. Watching Deadliest Catch gets me all amped up, because it's guys trying to earn a living, trying to get out there and fish in the coldest waters of the world. I think A&E and Discovery pretty much are my new favorite networks.


I need to bid on some storage units.