House prices are funny money: you could strive for years to earn a £3000 rise in your annual pay, and dither over whether to spend £100 on a new toaster. Yet £25,000 could be casually knocked off the price of your home in the process of sale. So how can you avoid that and ensure […]
If you are moving house, but need to store your possessions between houses, should you choose the storage offered to you by the removals company, or self storage?
Much has been written about the self storage industry. Here are some ‘sound bites’ that encapsulate an essential truth about self storage and attendant issues, such as decluttering.
Self Storage centres are naturally anonymous places. So who uses them? It seems certain types of people do so more than others, for reasons that you might find surprising.
It is easy enough to find psychological research into compulsive hoarding, and analysis of the mental benefits decluttering and spring cleaning bring. However, having been neglected, self storage now calls for similar academic attention. Any volunteers?
Lock-up garages (or “lugs”, as they are sometimes called) can be the cheapest kind of self storage available. They also have a dodgy reputation, but it that really deserved?
The self storage industry has a surprisingly intimate connection with personal relationships. It is there to help when a couple comes together and chooses to make two houses into one; to save the relationship in clashes over excessive hoarding and/or tidiness; and to provide shelter to the possessions of the ejected partner when divorce strikes.
There is no point in paying for self storage space and then using it to store stuff that you don’t actually want. First of all, you want to declutter. Here are a few tips on how to go about it, starting with the clutter mindset.
One morning in November 2008, and elderly, retired lawyer was found in the hallway outside his flat in South London dozing gently on a stack of old newspapers. Returning from a professional dinner the previous evening, he had found himself unable to enter the property, where he had lived alone in genteel decline for decades. He was unable to get in because the flat was packed to the ceiling with junk, and, in his absence, a pile of old newspapers had toppled against the front door. The stack in the hallway had previously been carefully deposited there by him because there simply had not been enough room for them within.
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