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I don’t have tv but I did see that show once at a relatives house. They dragged out a moderately interesting event that could have been covered in minutes into a full episode. And all I care about is what they found in the unit, not all the personal comment tripe and “competition” of the bidders.

But regarding the liberal bent:

I think the greatest testamony against our culture is the proliferation of storage units. Sure, there is a need, like when we moved to another state and didn’t have the space for all our stuff we rented the smallest unit they had until we could maximize our space and sell off or donate what was not really needed. But our culture is so based on consumerism that people buy way more stuff than they need and then pay monthly just to store the crap.

And anyone that cannot afford to pay the paulty rental fees for their unit should not be storing anything of real value there. They should get off their butts and sell it. I was unemployed about 8 years ago and between looking for jobs I parted out a dead motorcycle on Ebay. I made almost the entire purchase price back.

Losing your storage unit is what I call a “stupid tax”. There are two that come to mind right off the top of my head. The other one, of course, is lotto tickets.

Comically, they are both completely voluntary taxes.

But our culture is so based on consumerism that people buy way more stuff than they need and then pay monthly just to store the crap.

I know! I was in the Marine Corps, so we moved fairly often. Then I was an IT network man, so we moved fairly often. Then I was working in the oil refineries doing turn-arounds, so we moved fairly often. I told my wife, if it is still in a box from the last move, then it is going to the Salvation Army! I am not moving crap just to be moving it!

I said, if we didn't need it for the last two years then we won't need it or we probably already replaced it! The only exception were some true family heirlooms which are meticulously stored. But just regular stuff goes thrown away, yard sale or Salvation Army when we move!

For the one treasure that’s found, they go through a dozen units that are full of nothing but garbage. Many of them are exactly that - garbage. When moving out of a place, people want their deposit back and it’s cheaper to dump their trash in these units than it is to rent a dumpster.