The gory Australian crime thriller “Storage” (2009, directed by Michael Craft) is now out on DVD. All imaginable horrors unfurl in the shadowy setting of a grimy self storage facility. Is it a film that sensitive self storage customers should avoid at all costs? Is it fair to the self storage industry? Is it any good?
Many long-term customers of self storage use the space to store things they collect. Some of these collections are ordinary, others less so. Plenty of bibliophiles use a unit for their own personal library. Some women fill theirs with boxes of antique clothing they’ve spent decades building up, whilst many men own hundreds of LPs. […]
So, you’ve received a quotation from a self storage company. Or maybe four quotations, if you have been using Storage.co.uk’s “Get a Quote” service. How do you work out which is the best deal for you?
Yellow Pages is no longer the first port-of-call for people in search of self storage facilities. Online searches, signage, and word-of-mouth now lead the race ‒ questioning the value of investing in advertising through traditional directories.
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.
If you have been using self storage for confidential documents and archives, there may well come a point when you no longer need them. What do you do then?
There are some clothes that you want to keep. The vintage garments you’ve picked up for a song in a jumble sale, antique heirlooms, your wedding dress ‒ you may wear them only very occasionally, or perhaps only once and never again, or even never at all. How do you keep them? Where do you keep them?
If there’s one thing most people can agree on, it’s that farming is hard work. England’s countryside may be a green and pleasant land, but that doesn’t make it any easier to earn a living from it.
Self storage seems to be more popular at certain times of year than it does at others. This has more to do with the housing market than the weather….
It’s a question that bothers us all. We know that we are under obligation to keep records for tax reasons – but for how long? And while you’re at it, there are several other good reasons to keep records for a number of years.
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