Stuff? Who has stuff?

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Self Storage is an interesting thing. In our lives we somehow accumulate too much “stuff” and don’t have room to fit it into where we live. I know of someone whose grandmother had a storage unit for over 30 years. She paid over $100 a month and never moved anything out of it. When she had to put into a care facility, the family decided to empty out the storage unit. They found detergent, cleaning supplies, furniture and other odds and ends. All of the products were old and deteriorated, and had to be thrown away. The family couldn’t understand why after all the years she had storage, why she was just storing a bunch of nothing. Obviously, it wasn’t just nothing to the grandma. Or did it get to a point where she didn’t want to have to clean it out, so it was better to just pay the rent every month.

So, that brings me back to the interesting thing. Why as a society would we have so much “stuff” that we would have to pay someone to store it for us? Companies and businesses are making money (a lot of it) on people storing their extra stuff. If you had a lot of stuff, why wouldn’t you try and get rid of some of it? That is the million dollar question. Of course there are the people who store because they need a temporary place between moving or buying or selling a home. Those people are not who I am speaking about. I am talking about people like me.

I myself have a storage unit that I share with my parents. For some reason we cannot get rid of enough stuff that it would fit into our homes. My goal this fall is to go through all the stuff and sort and toss and sell anything I don’t want or need anymore. To make the goal more interesting I am putting my things on my side of the garage in the new house my boyfriend and I are building. My vehicle will have to be parked outside until all the items find a new home. My boyfriend doesn’t know how much stuff I really have. Right now he is fixated on my 5 pairs of shoes. Little does he know I have about 40 more pairs packed away!

Thanks,
Natalie

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