{"id":337,"date":"2010-05-24T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.146.49.248\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:32:00","slug":"taking-the-next-step-where-do-we-put-all-this-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/taking-the-next-step-where-do-we-put-all-this-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the next step: Where do we put all this stuff?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought my condo about two years ago. For a single girl, 2.5 bedrooms and 1,300 sq. ft. was more than enough room. So much so, that I could hardly afford all the furniture it would take to fill the space.<\/p>\n

Then about a year ago, I met someone. Recently, we made the decision to move him in. I was surprised to see how quickly the space filled up. First the drawers, then the closets, then the basement storage unit.<\/p>\n

And after all that, there was still all this stuff that had no place in the apartment. But knowing that we would eventually move into a larger home, we didn’t want to get rid of the extra furniture, rugs, chairs and bookcases.\u00a0So we thought about renting a self storage unit.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the questions we asked ourselves when considering self storage:<\/h2>\n
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  1. Which is more cost-effective: paying the storage unit rental fee for two years, or buying all the same furniture again in a few years?<\/li>\n
  2. Can the stuff we would put into self storage be easily replaced or is it one-of-a-kind?<\/li>\n
  3. Would we ever want to occasionally use any of the furniture or other items anytime within the next few years?<\/li>\n
  4. Besides the extra furniture, are there other items that we are currently storing in the condo that would be better stored in a self storage facility?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    And after taking all those questions into consideration, we decided that renting a self storage facility would be our best option.<\/p>\n

    What questions did you consider when choosing to rent a self storage facility? Post your thoughts here…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There was all this stuff that had no place in the apartment. But we didn’t want to get rid of the extra furniture. So we thought about renting a self storage unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-how-to","category-moving-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}