Curious as to what you folks keep in a storage unit, if anything. And how long it’s been there, and what conditions would have you take it out. I’m moving internationally in a couple months, for a...
Curious as to what you folks keep in a storage unit, if anything. And how long it’s been there, and what conditions would have you take it out.
I’m moving internationally in a couple months, for a few years, keeping my current house and renting it out. Pretty much a perfect reason to get a storage unit. But i know how much of a trap a unit is, and we’ve got rid of most of our stuff, though we fairly minimalist already.
I was in a very similar situation. Humidity damage in storage can be bad, so I went with an conditioned unit. Sold most of the big furniture. Gave away things that I knew my friends could put to...
I was in a very similar situation. Humidity damage in storage can be bad, so I went with an conditioned unit. Sold most of the big furniture. Gave away things that I knew my friends could put to good use, particularly if they might degrade anyway sitting around indefinitely. After a year or two away and paying the monthly charges, I finally accepted that it would make more sense with even my absolute minimum timeframe (>5yr) to just move the small valuables/sentimental stuff either to my parents' place or bring them with me, dump the rest, release the unit, and buy new stuff whenever I move back
Pretty sure I'm not a useful data point, but my twin neuroses of being cheap as heck and unable to part with anything means that I live an unintentionally pseudo-minimalist lifestyle. I still have...
Pretty sure I'm not a useful data point, but my twin neuroses of being cheap as heck and unable to part with anything means that I live an unintentionally pseudo-minimalist lifestyle. I still have a bunch of stuff -- most of which I don't use, and would happily forget about -- but because the rate of accumulation is so low, it could barely fill a broom closet.
My wife is far more frugal than I am, but I am far more indecisive than she is. I never shop online, because there is too much choice, and also I want to open the packaging on the way back from...
My wife is far more frugal than I am, but I am far more indecisive than she is. I never shop online, because there is too much choice, and also I want to open the packaging on the way back from the store so I'm not going to sit around waiting for something to ship to me. All that results in "i never buy anything" unless it's just pastries while out and about.
And early on with kids we signed up with the toy library in our city (and tool library, and book library, ....) and everything comes in through those organizations. And they accept donations, so that's where a lot of stuff goes, too.
I had to put all my belongings in a storage unit to move internationally too. It'll be half a decade before I ever see that stuff again, and honestly, by that point, who knows what I'll even feel...
I had to put all my belongings in a storage unit to move internationally too. It'll be half a decade before I ever see that stuff again, and honestly, by that point, who knows what I'll even feel about it. It's nice to not own a ton of crap.
Storage units, to me, are the epitome of American overconsumption as a sickness. We buy too much crap, so we have to rent out additional land with which we can house our crap. We don't have any...
Storage units, to me, are the epitome of American overconsumption as a sickness. We buy too much crap, so we have to rent out additional land with which we can house our crap. We don't have any use for any of this - neither utility nor emotional value - which is why we never really go to visit it.
I'll spare you the five paragraphs of vitriol I wrote and tell you that I'm currently surrounded by the garbage of a roommate's storage crap that we had to take in because he couldn't afford to pay them anymore and my husband couldn't say no and now the roommate is dying and he's not even here but we can't throw his shit away and I'm so tired of living in a garbage patch. 💢
I have a workshop. I'm not even going to describe the level of unrelated crap in it. Apart from tools and timber it's been on a downward trend for the last half decade or so, thankfully. I...
I have a workshop. I'm not even going to describe the level of unrelated crap in it.
Apart from tools and timber it's been on a downward trend for the last half decade or so, thankfully. I recommend getting rid of stuff.
Is a religion Australians increasingly share unfortunately
Curious as to what you folks keep in a storage unit, if anything. And how long it’s been there, and what conditions would have you take it out.
I’m moving internationally in a couple months, for a few years, keeping my current house and renting it out. Pretty much a perfect reason to get a storage unit. But i know how much of a trap a unit is, and we’ve got rid of most of our stuff, though we fairly minimalist already.
I was in a very similar situation. Humidity damage in storage can be bad, so I went with an conditioned unit. Sold most of the big furniture. Gave away things that I knew my friends could put to good use, particularly if they might degrade anyway sitting around indefinitely. After a year or two away and paying the monthly charges, I finally accepted that it would make more sense with even my absolute minimum timeframe (>5yr) to just move the small valuables/sentimental stuff either to my parents' place or bring them with me, dump the rest, release the unit, and buy new stuff whenever I move back
Pretty sure I'm not a useful data point, but my twin neuroses of being cheap as heck and unable to part with anything means that I live an unintentionally pseudo-minimalist lifestyle. I still have a bunch of stuff -- most of which I don't use, and would happily forget about -- but because the rate of accumulation is so low, it could barely fill a broom closet.
My wife is far more frugal than I am, but I am far more indecisive than she is. I never shop online, because there is too much choice, and also I want to open the packaging on the way back from the store so I'm not going to sit around waiting for something to ship to me. All that results in "i never buy anything" unless it's just pastries while out and about.
And early on with kids we signed up with the toy library in our city (and tool library, and book library, ....) and everything comes in through those organizations. And they accept donations, so that's where a lot of stuff goes, too.
I had to put all my belongings in a storage unit to move internationally too. It'll be half a decade before I ever see that stuff again, and honestly, by that point, who knows what I'll even feel about it. It's nice to not own a ton of crap.
Storage units, to me, are the epitome of American overconsumption as a sickness. We buy too much crap, so we have to rent out additional land with which we can house our crap. We don't have any use for any of this - neither utility nor emotional value - which is why we never really go to visit it.
I'll spare you the five paragraphs of vitriol I wrote and tell you that I'm currently surrounded by the garbage of a roommate's storage crap that we had to take in because he couldn't afford to pay them anymore and my husband couldn't say no and now the roommate is dying and he's not even here but we can't throw his shit away and I'm so tired of living in a garbage patch. 💢
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I have a workshop. I'm not even going to describe the level of unrelated crap in it.
Apart from tools and timber it's been on a downward trend for the last half decade or so, thankfully. I recommend getting rid of stuff.
Is a religion Australians increasingly share unfortunately