Help, we have too much stuff…

Welcome to the self storage blog. Today’s entry comes for Kay, one of our great sales reps. She has a wonderful way of relating to callers…especially callers who live with pack rats.

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Kay

As previous phone smart representatives have posted on the self storage blog, there are as many reasons for people to store as there are individuals. Quite frankly, until I worked here I had never thought much about self storage. I used to live in the country where there was always a machine shed, grain bin, or miscellaneous extra building to put things in. Self storage seemed a “city” thing to do. And I always wondered why anyone would pay good money to store stuff they could sell or give away.

The only time I had put anything in storage was when my teenaged son advised me that I could not take his car away and he would drive it whenever and wherever he wanted. It was in storage the very next day!

Then I moved to town and met my second ex husband. He was a good guy but he had “stuff”! By “stuff” I mean that he had every piece of paper he had ever owned, and he wanted to make room for it in my 4 bedroom house. First we started out with his “stuff” in the second bedroom downstairs. The room was crammed from floor to ceiling with such intriguing treasures as a box marked “1966 Letters” . That box contained magazine subscription offers from 1966. When I advised him that they probably had written to him later and that we needed to clear some space by throwing that box out he was nearly mortally wounded and wondered what I had against a “collector”

Life with this packrat got mired deeper and deeper in “stuff” I soon demanded to have the 2nd bedroom emptied because you could no longer close the door and the “stuff” was staring a process of spontaneous reproduction that was threatening to spill out into the hallway and in plain view of all who were invited into the living room. He was a really good guy but I was not having this.

My motto is “if you have not used it once during the past year get rid of it, give it to someone who needs it, sell it, or discard it. Since we were unable to come to a meeting of minds on this he decided to let me have the 2nd bedroom and take over the 2 bedrooms and storage space upstairs. I fought to retain 1 bedroom as a guest room and the storage area. Even an uncluttered non-collector like me has some “stuff” of my own.

As he brought in more and more our relationship soon became a turf war. I believe in respecting other people’s property but I was reduced to sneaking small boxes of his “stuff” out to the curbside each week. That was working well until he caught me and was forever the betrayed victim.

I have a new respect for self-storage. If we had rented a 10 x 30 we would probably still be married. By the way, pack rats of America, your women call us and ask for space to put your “stuff”. They sometimes also ask if they can stick you in there with it. Don’t worry we won’t let them.

Word to the wise!

Don’t forget to show support to our troops and take every opportunity to let them know how much we appreciate their sacrifice!

Kay

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