Keeping abreast of the formidable amount of cable, satellite, and video game entertainment is simply impossible. Too much is too much, inviting creative solutions.
A colleague was recently forced to rent some self storage as his garage was full of electronic gadgets dating back to Nintendo. And as Uncle Bob's storage had recently contacted me, I sent him there to get a great deal on a clean, secure unit.
Now, if cable and computer downloads were not overwhelming enough, myriad games, controllers and assorted hardware can stack up in a heck of a hurry. You can easily envision storage units popping up all over the country. You know---for all the stuff your kids won't let you throw away.
As far as cable entertainment is concerned, a few hours research will bring you up to speed about new programs. Cable television provides an enormous amount of drama, film, comedy, science, and history programming.
They also provide something called Reality Shows. There seems to be a new one appearing almost daily, centered around such stages as famous people dancing with established entertainment stars, or a johnny-come-lately political family who treat their viewers to such spectacular events as riding in the snow and catching fish. Impressive.
Then, just when you are recovering from the shock of the huge popularity of Dancing With The Stars, along comes ‘Storage Wars.’ Yes, you read that correctly---STORAGE WARS. And it is on the History channel!
Storage units at war with one another? Something for history to record?
Hardly. The war alluded to is among the throngs of bidders anxiously awaiting their bounty. These units are repossessed for non-payment, or are simply abandoned. Who knows what goodies may be waiting inside?
Yes, the show is scripted, but promises to be quite a lot of fun.
Storage Wars appears to be an eclectic blend of Dog The Bounty Hunter and Operation Repo.
The phenomena of abandoning personal possessions is really quite intriguing. Think about it for a minute. Every day, there are multitudes of thousands of people availing themselves of self storage.
How in the world could so many people just let their stuff go by defaulting on payment? After all, it was the stuff they were storing, not just some old clothes or rusty tools and equipment.
If people are willing to pay anywhere from forty to several hundred dollars a month, one might legitimately assume a unit's value to be in the many thousands of dollars.
Perhaps more. Only days ago, a number of Picasso drawings were uncovered in a French garage. Two hundred and seventy one Picasso original paintings, drawings, sketches and lithographs were discovered after a retired French electrician brought the pieces to the office of the Picasso Administration to have them authenticated.
The initial episode of Storage Wars included testimony from one professional bidder who had discovered three Picasso paintings in a California unit.
Of the 58,000 self storage facilities in the world, 50,000 are located in the United States. That is equivalent to 2.35 billion square feet.
The History channel's Storage Wars apparently has a lot of storage units to attend to, and a lot of paintings to recover.
No shortage of entertainment value here.
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