My young son, recently, decided to spend a few years traveling around. He quit his job, and did not renew his lease on his apartment, and had to find a place to store the stuff he has accumulated over a few years. He ruled out storage units, because the stuff he had to store was not really worth the price charged for storage over a year or more. (He tried to store it here, but I've got much to much clutter myself).
Perhaps you can sell your stored stuff on E-Bay, eliminate your storage charges, and make a little money. (hide it from IRS though).
Hi, thanks for your post. I can’t get to my stored things, so that’s not possible. I don’t have a car and I’m too sick to crawl around over all the boxes to get anything out of there.
It does cost a lot and I’ve had it for 4 years, but I’m also kind of old and have plenty accumulated. They may just be “things,” but they’re not, to me. I gave away 2/3rds of my belongings to the Salv Army when I was forced to move unexpectedly, but I still had enough to fill a large and a small unit. Neighborhood HS boys moved things for me a little at a time, as I could pay them, which wiped me out.
I realize my good furniture and appliances may be ruined in there, but I have huge collections of CDs, a large reference library for my work, hundreds of cookbooks that I actually *used* and 100s of videotape movies. Also, very expensive cookware - I had to totally start from scratch in this cheap apt and I know the flimsy pots & pans I had to buy cheap are contributing to my ill health, among many other things.
Anyway, there are also 1000s of $$ worth of dolls in the unit that were going to be sold on the website I was trying to develop when all this came down on my head, plus all my business supplies, 25 years worth of my client files, family heirlooms, over 9000 special Christmas ornaments, just a ton of things that mean the world to me - but not to anyone else. I just can’t get to them to use them or sell them.