The Process of Storage and Moving
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by: joe.moesier
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It seems that storage and moving go together. I have moved a lot and, for some reason, I always ended up putting stuff in storage. When I was in college, my parents had a storage unit and I ended up ditching lots of things there every time I moved. 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. I ended up leaving most everything in there and included them in a big yard sale the next time I visited my parents. I am sure those guys were happy I made them schlep all the way there for a little storage and moving adventure. 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. Given that my apartment was the typical size of a city studio apartment and he just came from a spacious house on a campus in the Midwest, he decided he would put most everything he owned in storage. 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. They all used our storage place. When we bought a house and moved out of the shared one, we used Craigslist to sell or give away the things we did not need. 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. Unlike the many times before, we leased a portable storage container to house our stuff during the remodel. Either we are much wiser now, or these portable storage moving companies did not exist when we were younger. The company delivered a big metal storage container to our driveway and it stayed there for a week, while we slowly moved things in there. The storage and moving people then transported it to their storage facility. It was so easy in comparison to the old way. We had a key to access our container in the climate controlled and guarded facility, just like we did at our old storage unit. 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. The company picked it up a week later, and we got to take our time getting things moved back in. 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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