Over the years, you begin to accumulate so many personal belongings – clothes, DVDs and CDs, books, furniture, photo albums, decorations, housewares, old yearbooks and many other items – that start to take over your house. These things are special to you and you don’t just want to dump them. Of course you want to keep them, but having enough room becomes a big challenge. Self Storage is today’s best solution to the problem of space. It is a practical solution and makes perfect sense to deposit your meaningful things in a self-storage facility so they are safely kept without cluttering up your home.
With the ongoing trends of increased mobility in the U.S., these facilities are becoming more important during transference. According to Wikipedia,
One in ten U.S. households now rent a self storage unit. The growing demand for self storage in the U.S. is created by people moving (some 40 million Americans move each year according to U.S. Census data), and by various lifestyle transitions, such as marriage, divorce, retirement, a death in the family, etc.
You can keep your things in a storage facility indefinitely, but you can also rent a unit for only a temporary amount of time and keep your items safe, secure, and insured while you declutter your house and your life during your transition period.
I remember driving up the hill to the storage unit my dad rented when I was a kid. Every year, he would take me there to help pick out my winter clothes for our ski trip or to take some stuff over that my mom wanted to move out of the house. I thought it was so neat how so much stuff could fit in that one space. We had paintings, suitcases of winter clothes, tools, kitchen ware, among other things. 35 years later, my dad still has that storage unit.
Self-storage facilities have also become popular for businesses or for those that work at home. If you are running out of home office space to store all your records and files that keep piling up, then self storage is your best option. There are many different sized units that serve the purpose of storage. You have the option to choose the exact space needed to accommodate your items. These units are meant for storing goods and are well secured with, at minimum, computer controlled security gates with individual gate access as well as strategically positioned cameras and closed circuit TV surveillance. Each unit also has a lock chosen by the renter. Individual door alarms are another option that can be quite popular and successful as well. You can feel safe knowing that your personal belongings are being kept securely, but out of your way.
November 13, 2011
