To find Storage Wars really, really depressing.

[MyCannyBairn]

All those peoples lives, treasures, memories. They could be ill, in hospital, lost their job, destitute, whatever. To see all this carefully packed cared for stuff paraded on tv, I find it such a depressing sign of the times.

To have to abandon your valuable stuff, you must up shit creek otherwise you'd get it and sell it.

Maybe you are dead and no one knows it's there. Depressing. Especially depressing, rooms with kids stuff.

Some of the buyers make it entertaining, but still.

I am watching it too. Woken early by pissed DP coming home from works do, gave up on sleep so came down to watch it.

I do spend the time wonderin about the people who owned all the stuff.

That 'Pumpkin head' poster was interesting.

I've seen it - never thought of it that way. It is depressing!

I love the programme. I find it really interesting. But I know what you mean. Its has an undercurrent of sadness. I always wonder what has happened.

However, these places are businesses and I know if you contact them regarding what happening they will try and help. The ones they sell have been non payers for a while.

Its still sad, but a business is there to make money and keeping these things isn't making them money.

There will be some, where people don't realise there is anything of worth and purposely abandon it.

My dbro actually made some money after seeing the sell some star wars memorabilia and he had some of it.

Agree with Brady. It is sad but fascinating.
Someone bought Michael Jacksons storage locker in the same way. There was a bit of a fuss about some old family photos. But I am sure the family could have paid the debt on the storage locker between them.

I always feel a bit 'ick' when the regulars make a fortune from the lockers - you know the type of thing, a box full of cigarette boxes that turn out to be worth a mint.

I end up wondering how much of a difference that money would have made to the ex-owner. I don't like the crowing about how much they have made when they are profiting from someone else's misfortune.

I don't mind when they break even, or make a little bit of cash. Love it when they lose out :)

(Oh and Dave "Yuuuuuup" SHUT UP you are irritating!)

Dave IS a twat.

I pissed myself laughing when he found a little bone china trinket box. He was taking it to be valued a dropped it when he got out the car.

He was being so smug saying it was worth a fortune and how he was so much better than everyone else.

I feel the same. I always worry that the owners never realised how much some of the items were worth and if they had they could have sold them themselves and got out of whatever financial difficulty they were in. We need to suggest a "Cash in your Storage Unit" alternative with David Dickinson and Ben Fogle! Not sure why Ben Fogle but he just seems to be in bloody everything!

my dad likes to say yuuup.a la dave hester. ut maes me ragey.

There is one like that Festively. Kim or Aggie, whichever one it is helps people who have storage to rummage through and sell the valuables. It is on ITV in the afternoons I think.