02-07-2015, 09:20 AM
When I used to help a guy that cleaned out houses that were to be sold we would walk through the house and find tons of stuff from over 100 years ago. Huge houses that had all kinds of old things in it that we would sell on the antique market and give the owners a cut on the profits. Everything we found and sold was categorized and listed, at least the things we found that was worth something. We would have to take the good and the bad and many trips to the dump was taken
He had a good reputation for being honest and got lots of jobs because of that. Houses in Mass, Conn, Jersey I spent the summer in some dusty places.
There was this one house I remember that the old people had died and the son lived in the top floor he was crazy and after they carted him off we went in and did our thing. Up in the rooms he was living in was these gallons and gallons of piss. He must have had a few hundred of them and it was the worst thing I've ever encountered. It was on the third floor so we put a pvc tube out the window and dumped it all into the sewer drain with gloves and masks and a scowl.
We did find tons of stuff that was left behind and I think the guy I was helping sold it all for over 100,000 at auction.
That was the worst one but you gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
He still does it and I visit him every once in a while. Great guy with tons of info on anything old and seemingly useless. A connoisseur of clutter with a slight smell of dust and old stuff that follows him around like pigpen from Charlie Brown.
He had a good reputation for being honest and got lots of jobs because of that. Houses in Mass, Conn, Jersey I spent the summer in some dusty places.
There was this one house I remember that the old people had died and the son lived in the top floor he was crazy and after they carted him off we went in and did our thing. Up in the rooms he was living in was these gallons and gallons of piss. He must have had a few hundred of them and it was the worst thing I've ever encountered. It was on the third floor so we put a pvc tube out the window and dumped it all into the sewer drain with gloves and masks and a scowl.
We did find tons of stuff that was left behind and I think the guy I was helping sold it all for over 100,000 at auction.
That was the worst one but you gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
He still does it and I visit him every once in a while. Great guy with tons of info on anything old and seemingly useless. A connoisseur of clutter with a slight smell of dust and old stuff that follows him around like pigpen from Charlie Brown.
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.