Storage and Moving the Old School Way
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by: joe.moesier
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It seems that storage and moving go together. Every time I have moved, I needed to store things at some point during the process. 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. I hired professional movers when I moved to the East Coast to go to grad school, and I scheduled a pick up there for those items I assumed I surely could not live without. Not surprisingly, I did not have the movers take more than an old chair and my skiing gear. I am sure those guys were happy I made them schlep all the way there for a little storage and moving adventure. I was young; what did I know?
When my husband (then boyfriend) and I first decided to move in together, we had another storage and moving voyage. He thought it would be easiest to put almost all his stuff in storage, since my apartment was the size of a postage stamp and I was already settled in. 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 moved out of the group house, we had a huge yard sale and put a lot of stuff on the curb. 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. We do not remember such a thing even being an option in all our past moves. 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. When we were done packing it up, the storage and moving company picked the thing up and moved it to their storage warehouse. After so many experiences moving things into storage via the old school method, this was like a walk in the park. Like our old traditional storage cubby, we could get things in and out of the warehouse and the place was secure. 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. See, we ARE much wiser now.
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