Where is Padian from?
As of summer 2019, Padian returned to her roots in Texas, bouncing between Dallas and Austin, to represent a charity close to her heart called Ubuntu Life.
As an adult, she opened a shop of her own selling secondhand items — some of those, Padian would find out later, she had initially purchased from Moe Prigoff, a storage unit buyer featured on the first season of Storage Wars: Texas — that she would fix and redesign to sell to interior designers.
While Mary’s Finds, the brick-and-mortar store in Texas that initially got her the TV job is no longer operating, Padian is still in the upcycling business via an online version of the business under the same name — and yes, it does indeed feature some of the items she finds on the show once they’re spruced back up.
Despite the Texas Storage Wars spinoff cancellation, Padian was apparently so well-received by producers that they, in an act of poetic recycling that’s not lost on us, asked her to pick up and move her entire life out to California to join the mothership show Storage Wars as another featured buyer. She’s not on every episode, but she’s very much still a part of that production — appearing all the way up to season 12, which aired in 2018 and 2019. There’s no confirmation right now for a 13th season of Storage Wars, but there’s no reason to believe that Padian won’t return along with it if more episodes happen. After all, she frequently posts to her Instagram account using the hashtag #storagewars, usually in the form of selfies with co-stars. She’s also become very good friends with fellow Storage Wars personality Brandi Passante since making the transition to California.
Where did Mary Padian move to?
Mary Padian became a regular “Storage Wars” cast member, which also meant that she had to leave Texas in favour of moving to California, and close her physical shop, eventually replacing it with an online one.
After graduating in photojournalism in the early 2000’s, she moved to New York, searching for something she wasn’t sure what it was: ‘I didn’t have a job or anything, but I knew I wanted to be in magazines, I went out every day and hand delivered my resume ”, she said in an interview with the website SpareFoot in 2017.
So Mary risked it all for her then-newly founded shop, Mary’s Finds, which showcased her love for furniture, design and ‘found treasures’ combined with her passion for refurbishing and re-using items in an affordable way.
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