• The reality show, American Pickers on the History Channel follows antique and collectible pickers.
• Mike Wolfe and his partner Frank Fritz visit various homes and stores around the United States to find items for resale or for their own personal collections.

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Had a Passion for junk Since his early days

When he was very young Mike’s passion for junk started. He found an abandoned bike one day, and he sold it for $5. After that, he was hooked.

He started walking around houses and looking for anything that he could bring home and sell. He even started harassing the local farmers.

Mike made his first big score when he was just a kid. He found a bike, While looking through a barn one day. The farmer was offered $50 for the bike.

The farmer took the deal, they shook hands, and Mike took the bike home. After that, he cleaned up the bike. Therefore sold it for $5,000. First earning was a huge profit for him.

Hopes to help “Little Pickers”

Mike was very young when he got into the picking game. He wrote a book called ‘Kid Pickers: How To Turn Junk Into Treasure’ because he was worried that his profession will be lost to the next generation.

The book is basically a how-to, teaching kids their craft. Mike says that he doesn’t do what he does for the money. As future generations are not willing to look for hidden treasures, he does it to make sure that hidden pieces of treasure won’t stay hidden.

Quiet in nature

Chillin with Charlie #bikeride #familytime #antiquearchaeology

— Mike Wolfe (@AmericanPicker) October 18, 2017

Over the years, Mike and his crew have gained quite a bit of fame. Mike, however, doesn’t think that he deserves the fame and attention. He says that it is the people who allow them to go through their things that make the show.

According to Mike, it is people like Hobo Jack and Prince Mongo who really deserve the credit. Mike believes that it is an honor that the people they visit open up their homes.

Home is the exact opposite 

Despite all the junk that Mike takes from the show, we might think that he has a crowded home, resembling all of them. His home is the exact opposite.

He did an interview with the New York Times and he told the reporter that while he loves the stuff, he would never live in a place that looks like some of the places that they have picked.

At the time of the interview, he owned a building in downtown LeClaire, Iowa, right by the river.

The ground floor had retail space, which he rented out to other businesses. Above the retail space was his duplex apartment.

Not only was it neat and tidy, but he didn’t have anything like the things that he picked in his home. His current home, however, that’s a different story.

New doors for him

When Mike started doing American Pickers, he had just one store. Since the show became successful, the money started rolling in.

After that, he opened a second location in Nashville, Tennessee called ‘Antique Archaeology’. He even launched his own brand.

He used his fame to approach CBS with a scripted sitcom about life in an antique store. They bought the pilot, but it didn’t go much further than that. Since the show started, Mike has ventured out to be more than a picker.

His dream house

With all of the money, he was able to afford to buy his dream house. He bought a home in the suburbs that is 5,100 square feet, and it is set on 32 acres of woodland. The first thing that he did when he moved in was to move his collection of over 40 motorcycles to the property.

Inside the home are a castle-like turret and a built-in telephone booth. He installed a 150-year-old front door on the home and the gates around the property date back to the 1860s.

Unlike his previous home in Iowa, this home is more like him. Plenty of motorcycles and lots of very old things. It is the house of his dreams.

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Role as a Husband and a Father

On September 8, 2012, Mike married a woman named Jodi Faeth. They were married in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee and they had an “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” themed ceremony.

They were married 8 months after the birth of their daughter, Charlie Faeth Wolfe. She was born on January 30, 2012.

American Pickers gains more popularity after each season that it is on the air. If you have seen the show and have always wanted to know the man, you know all there is to know about him now.

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Short bio on Mike Wolfe

Mike Wolfe is an American actor, producer, and writer. He is widely popular as the creator and star of the television show American Pickers which aired on the History Channel.

His debut on television was very successful as he was able to grab the attention of about 5.4 million viewers in the first season of the show. More bio…

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