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Let’s bid on those,’ I said to my husband Mike, pointing to a pile of taped-up cardboard boxes.
We were at the storage auction of a deceased estate. A dilapidated farmhouse, it was like something out of a horror movie. In the garage were the late owner’s possessions, packaged into 22 big ‘mystery’ boxes.
We’d got into probate sales a couple of years earlier, making a few bucks selling old stuff online for a profit.
However, time and again, Mike and I were outbid at bigger auctions by people with
