American Pickers: What is Picking?

I'm thinking of wallowing. 

Being down in the dumps would normally be a positive for me--think of all the treasures I could uncover in those dumps!--but today, it's more along the lines of crummy, despondent, dispirited, down and out, glum, in a blue funk, lugubrious, melancholy, spiritless, or perhaps just plain unhappy.  

Instead of asking you to wallow with me, I'm introducing you to a life-changing series on the History Channel.  If I weren't already married and weren't so afraid of spiders and could stand to bargain a little, I would travel to Iowa and marry one of these men just to go along on their treks.