Back in February, my buddies and I ventured to a storage auction at this link. I chatted with the other buyers who happened to be at a storage auction when Spike TV's Auction Hunters filmed several episodes on Oahu. Honolulu Magazine published an article about the filming at this link.
About a month ago, one of my followers gave me the heads up that Spike TV would broadcast the Oahu episode on September 12. I was a little disappointed with the episode when Allen and Ton sold a handmade replica of a "lava sled" to a teacher ... when I thought they should have donated to the Bishop Museum. The closing scene poked fun at hula ... which I thought was disrespectful to the sacred storytelling.
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| Allen tries out the lava sled spike.com |
But Allen and Ton redeemed themselves with a second episode on September 19 - they donated a priceless tattoo tool to the Polynesian Cultural Center. Their closing scene was fun at Lanakai Beach, spotlighting Hawaii at its best.
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| Lanikai Beach also offers a view of Nā Mokulua (two islands as seen from Bellows Beach) |
I quickly changed the channel to A&E for the latest episode Storage Wars: Texas. These shows are addictive ... and once profitable for romance author Lisa Renee Jones. She recently posted on A&E's blog, "My greatest storage unit find and how I got started buying and selling storage units" at this link.
Lisa draws upon her storage units experience in IF I WERE YOU, the first book in her INSIDE OUT TRILOGY. From Lisa's press release,
Inspired by a journal her fiancee found when buying and selling storage units (yes like the show but before the show) Lisa calls this her SHADES OF GREY meets BASIC INSTINCT. Why Shades of Grey? The dark, damaged characters and passion. Why Basic Instinct? Because the main character Sara finds an erotic journal and begins to read. Sara becomes as obsessed with the writer of the journal as the writer is with the two men in the journal, and they with her. She seeks out the woman to be sure she is safe and becomes absorbed in her life, where she meets two powerful men -- one of which draws her into an intensely passionate affair. Simon and Schuster has re-released IF I WERE YOU in e-book and is coordinating the print release of the entire trilogy for early 2013.
Elf at the Reading Addict posted her review of IF I WERE YOU on Amazon at this link. To celebrate these little victories, I am giving away a Hawaiian 2013 calendar so you can mark the release dates for Lisa's trilogy in print. To enter the giveaway,
1. Leave a comment about what valuable you have in storage - in a drawer, closet, or even garage.
All my European furniture is stored in Maryland - I did not want it to fall into the Pacific ocean!
2. This giveaway is open to all readers.
3. Comments are open through Saturday, September 29, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll post the winner on Sunday, September 30.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
I've got some jewelry and coins.
ReplyDeleteWhen I moved to Italy, I wanted to put all my furniture and other stuff in storage, but then I decided just to give it all away to my family members who at the end took almost everything. At the moment I have very few things, so no need for storage, but my boyfriend has occupied all the free rooms & garage with his computers and monitors.
ReplyDeleteI have a coin collection that I keep in a safe deposit box.
ReplyDeleteI do not really have anything in storage. I have it all out.
ReplyDeleteI have ring and earrings given by my sister and my friend as my b'day gift :)
ReplyDeleteI've tried watching that show, I just don't like it at all. Plus I've heard them say that ever since the show that they are paying much higher prices for the storage units since everyone wants to be out there trying to buy them now. You can't have it both ways guys. You either want your show to do well and be popular getting more people to do what you do or you don't like your own show and want to keep this storage hunting a secret.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, ok I'm done with my rant...lol
I don't have anything in storage but my mom had a few boxes at her cousins house for more than 10 years. She lost touch with this cousin and when when she found her number again she cousin told her she still had her boxes and so my mom had her step dad pick them up and bring them to her. There were only about 6 boxes and they had been sitting in her cousins garage the whole time, but it was interesting to see what my mom had packed up ten years earlier.
It was a few towels, her mom's old toaster and coffee pot, two of her dad's Cast Iron skillets and some knick knacks that I actually inherited after my mom passed away last year.
Don't have anything that is valuable that I keep in a safe.
ReplyDeleteI have some lovely jewelry stored in a box. I find myself using the same simple pieces day after day and never get around to wearing much of the "good stuff."
ReplyDeleteI don't really have anything in storage. I do have a box full of negatives from old pictures. Should maybe actually get them put on a disc at some point.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any valuables.
ReplyDeleteI have a collection of cups and saucers from my husband's grandmother and some from his mother but no room to display them. I also have a stamp collection and some coins. And then there's books...
ReplyDeleteDon't have anything valuable.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have anything of great value but more sentinmental I would say. I have my treasures in my bedroom closet or dinning room hutch.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have anything of financial value. But I do have some wooden boxes made by my great granfather. He was not a carpenter or anything but needed a creative outlet. I think they are beautiful and you can see them in the picture I got on my blog. I think they are beautiful and they have a large emotional value to me.
ReplyDeleteThe Storage war shows are just the best. I can and do watch them for hours.
ReplyDeleteNo I do not have anything in storage, but I sure have a lot of things stored away under the stairway, time for another garage sale.
When I was at walmart the other day, I even saw a t-shirt with Barry Weiss's picture on it and I thought I was the only one who watched this show.
DeleteI don't have anything in storage either. However, I do have my Grandmother's antique Gate Leg Table. Unfortunately, it's missing a spindle, so I don't think it would be worth much. I also have my Auntie's wedding and engagement rings from the 1920's. My Dad's sister was almost 30 years older than him, so really, I'm not that ancient.
ReplyDeleteI have antiques packed away in the attic and jewelry in a closet.
ReplyDeleteKaren C
A lava sled, that is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI don't have valuables worth money but I do have a whole drawer full of pictures that I have to sort through.
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing...
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