Sometimes there is just the need for one to self store items.  The items may be out of season clothing, decorations, bikes in the wintertime, maybe even packing up a house for a moving/selling.  Before we moved into our home, I had a lot of items stored in the attic of an apartment we were living in.  I had been storing items in the attic in anticipation of us finding our own home.  Many of the items were items that I knew for sure would work when we found a home and everything was purchased at BIG discounts.  Then we got a notice from our landlord.

He said – I’m having the attic insulated.  Oh dear…now what!?  He had no clue HOW much I had stored in the attic!  The thought of paying for storing the items – wasn’t what I really had in mind.  My whole purpose of purchasing items in advance and at huge discounts – would have completely been defeated .  There was no telling how long we’d have to rent the storage unit for.  Luckily for us, my in-laws made room in their shed at their home for us to be able to utilize until we moved.

If worse came to worst, I would have opted for self storing over having a company come in and move my stuff.  Paying a company would have:

• Cost me a lot more than doing it myself
• I could organize the storage unit myself, putting boxes nearer to the front that I know I would need if we didn’t move in the near future – such as Christmas decor
• I would know the boxes weren’t going to be damaged or the contents, by careless workers

All worked out in the end for the most part – if I had self stored our stuff in a storage facility – the mice wouldn’t have gotten the best of my knit throws (my fault for not packing better), and they had a field day making beds out of my packing materials.