Portable Storage and Moving Can Make Life Easier
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by: joe.moesier
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Storage and moving go hand in hand. I have moved a lot and, for some reason, I always ended up putting stuff in storage. My parents continually rented one of those storage rooms in a big warehouse when I was growing up, which came in very handy when I was in college and needed to store random items every semester. I would come home for summer or winter break and, inevitably, put more stuff in there. I do not remember, however, ever bringing things back to college from the storage unit. When I went to graduate school across the country, I actually had my movers stop there to pick up what I thought was going to be a lot of valuable things. Not surprisingly, I did not have the movers take more than an old chair and my skiing gear. That little storage and moving debacle hurt my wallet a bit, as I had to pay them for the two extra hours it took for me to look through all that stuff. I like to think that I am older and wiser now.
When my husband (then boyfriend) and I first decided to move in together, we had another storage and moving voyage. He thought it would be easiest to put almost all his stuff in storage, since my apartment was the size of a postage stamp and I was already settled in. We rented a big house with another couple a year later and he was able to unload everything from storage and move it into the house. Our friends then put a bunch of stuff in our storage place. We had a few friends here and there that would stay in our guest bedroom for months at a time. Every single one of them loaded our storage unit to the brim. When we moved out of the group house, we had a huge yard sale and put a lot of stuff on the curb. We no longer rented the storage place after that.
We were storage unit free, until we decided to remodel our house. We had always leased one of those storage places that was just a storage building, whenever we did our storage and moving dance. We always had to rent a truck or take multiple car trips to get things to and from the facility. This time, we decided to go with one of those transportable self storage services. We do not remember such a thing even being an option in all our past moves. They brought the steel storage box to our curb and we moved items into it at our leisure for ten days. When we were done packing it up, the storage and moving company picked the thing up and moved it to their storage warehouse. After so many experiences moving things into storage via the old school method, this was like a walk in the park. Like our old traditional storage cubby, we could get things in and out of the warehouse and the place was secure. After the remodeling project was finished and we could settle back into our house, we scheduled a time for the portable storage thing to be delivered. We kept it for a week, while we unpacked. We will never go back to our old storage and moving ways. It is nice to know we are much smarter than we used to be.
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