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Think long and hard before cramming your crap into a storage unit. Outside of possessions with some sentimental value, it's likely the money spent on a year or

Think long and hard before cramming your crap into a storage unit. Outside of possessions with some sentimental value, it's likely the money spent on a year or two of paying for a storage unit (particularly one that is climate controlled) exceeds the value of the things you're storing there.

aprilthird2021 2y ago
But almost everyone has some possessions with sentimental value. Where should those be kept?
- withinboredom 2y ago
  Friends or family, otherwise, you don’t really need it.
  - klysm 2y ago
    Not everybody has that
    - withinboredom 2y ago
      My point is, when you live on a boat or RV, or traveling around, you don't have a lot of space anyway. So, you will end up at a point where "thing goes in, thing goes out" or you won't have space. Might as well get to that point from the beginning. If you want to keep it, you'll need a friend to send stuff to anyway. So, if you (somehow) don't have any friends, you won't be able to keep much anyway, except memories.
ornornor 2y ago
It’s not only about current value. As anyone who has had their house wiped out and an insurance payout, acquiring everything again when you settle back is a massive time sink (let alone cost, if you were insured at fair market value rather than replacement value) So yeah, the rent on the unit might be more than your crap is worth, but having it all back in a blink (essentially) when moving back someplace has some intangible value too.
xenospn 2y ago
They also tend to increase prices on a regular basis, and that more or less doubles your cost very quickly
nox101 2y ago
Agree with this. I put all my stuff in storage several times. One time I put it all in a smaller rural town because a because cost was 1/5th of what it was in a big city ($70 a month vs $350 a month). But even then, the stuff was in there for 4 years so ($3360) + the van to move it and most of it could have been replaced for far less. I eventually emptied it but I made the mistake is discarding books and trinkets that were actually memorabilia. I didn't interact with the trinkets or pull the books off the shelves. I didn't realize that just seeing them would trigger memories of where I bought them, who I was with, what I was into then, what songs were popular then, etc... so I regret getting rid of that stuff. But that was probably no more than 10 "book boxes" of stuff

aprilthird2021 2y ago

But almost everyone has some possessions with sentimental value. Where should those be kept?

withinboredom 2y ago
Friends or family, otherwise, you don’t really need it.
- klysm 2y ago
  Not everybody has that
  - withinboredom 2y ago
    My point is, when you live on a boat or RV, or traveling around, you don't have a lot of space anyway. So, you will end up at a point where "thing goes in, thing goes out" or you won't have space. Might as well get to that point from the beginning. If you want to keep it, you'll need a friend to send stuff to anyway. So, if you (somehow) don't have any friends, you won't be able to keep much anyway, except memories.

ornornor 2y ago

It’s not only about current value. As anyone who has had their house wiped out and an insurance payout, acquiring everything again when you settle back is a massive time sink (let alone cost, if you were insured at fair market value rather than replacement value) So yeah, the rent on the unit might be more than your crap is worth, but having it all back in a blink (essentially) when moving back someplace has some intangible value too.

xenospn 2y ago

They also tend to increase prices on a regular basis, and that more or less doubles your cost very quickly

nox101 2y ago

Agree with this. I put all my stuff in storage several times. One time I put it all in a smaller rural town because a because cost was 1/5th of what it was in a big city ($70 a month vs $350 a month). But even then, the stuff was in there for 4 years so ($3360) + the van to move it and most of it could have been replaced for far less. I eventually emptied it but I made the mistake is discarding books and trinkets that were actually memorabilia. I didn't interact with the trinkets or pull the books off the shelves. I didn't realize that just seeing them would trigger memories of where I bought them, who I was with, what I was into then, what songs were popular then, etc... so I regret getting rid of that stuff. But that was probably no more than 10 "book boxes" of stuff