One Man's Junk Brings Other Men's Junk

Hick spent Tuesday afternoon putting a light in one of his storage units. It's not his main storage unit store, the SUS2.5. It's not even the first storage unit store, which is next door. No, Hick put a light in his STORAGE storage unit. It's farther away. 

There's no such thing as a simple answer to a simple question when it comes to Hick's activities. He sent me a picture:

"My light I hung in locker."

"Fancy light for a storage unit."

"It was free. It will get a lot of attention."

Of course I had to get more info when Hick came home.

"Where did you get that chandelier for free?"

"It was in my office at the apartments. That and a big lamp and a lot of stuff. My boss told me to clean it out, that it was all junk, and he didn't care where it went."

"So that's not in your main store."

"No. It's in the one next to Old Buddy. He watches it for me. In fact, I give him 20% of anything he sells. I figure he'll watch the stuff closer if he makes something off of it."

"How many storage units do you have???"

"Three. This one was mainly for storage, but now I have too much stuff, so I sell some of it there."

"You need to STOP! You have way too much junk!"

"I cain't stop, Val. I have to buy more stuff."

"WHY? Just sell what you have, and get down to one unit. Then you don't have to pay for three."

"People bring me stuff, Val!"

"That doesn't mean you have to BUY it!"

"Yes I do! Or they won't sell to me. Like today, I had a guy bring me four fishing poles that were worth $50 apiece. But I got them for $15 apiece, because he had other stuff he wanted to sell. A minnow trap, and two tin men."

"WHAT? So you bought his junk to get the fishing poles? How much did you spend?"

"I gave him $75. I told him it was $15 for the fishing poles, and then I give him another $15 for the rest of it."

"So you paid about $19 for each fishing pole, and took some junk off his hands. What are tin men?"

"Men about two feet tall. Made out of tin cans bolted together."

Yeah. Because that's what people are shopping for these days, I guess. Hick is more likely to sell his FREE chandelier!

"What if somebody wants to buy your light? Would you sell it?"

"Yeah. I'd sell it to them. I'd have to get at least $150 for it."

That would be a pretty good profit for junk. But I don't know if Hick is considering the cost of that extra storage unit every month. I wonder if he sells enough stuff from there to justify the rent. I don't dare bring that up. It's Hick's money...