The Process of Storage and Moving

Storage and moving go hand in hand. Every time I have moved, I needed to store things at some point during the process. My parents continually rented one of those storage rooms in a big warehouse when I was growing up, which came in very handy when I was in college and needed to store random items every semester. Every summer vacation, I would bring more things home and stash the things I did not know what to do with 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 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. Every single one of them loaded our storage unit to the brim. 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. We had a key to access our container in the climate controlled and guarded facility, just like we did at our old storage unit. When the construction had been completed, we had the company bring the metal storage box back. 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.