More Than The Cheapest Price
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Until I needed storage for the first time, I didn’t ever realize that it was a service available. My needs were simple. I was moving out of a duplex in one city and into a someone else’s home and didn’t have room for my things. So I was forced into storing my things until I could get my own place. It was about 4 months that I had my belongings in storage – basically over a summer. I was just out of college with very little extra money so I went to the place in town with the cheapest price.
No one ever warned me (especially not the facility) of the many different things I should and shouldn’t do when putting things into a storage unit. Everything in my small duplex had to be put away. So without thinking, I packed the living room, the bedroom, the bathroom, and the kitchen. Yes. The kitchen. I packed pots, pans, dishes, silverware, and the pantry.
When I returned four months later to get my belongings out of storage, I was very unhappy with the results. Everything was covered with mouse droppings! They had chewed through all five boxes that I had packed food in. They ate all my cereal, packs of uncooked noodles, hamburger helper. They chewed a hole through my bag of flour but luckily they left most of it in the bag. The problem was that meal worms were happily eating what the mice had left behind.
Okay. So maybe that was mostly my fault for not having enough common sense, but the property owners never told me not to put food in the unit. At least they told me I couldn’t store the propane tank from my grill, but the grill ended up falling off the truck rendering it useless. Needless to say, I sold my tank.
This was a little over 5 years ago and in that much time, the way people do storage has improved. We advertise monthly pest control, super clean facilities, climate controlled units (I won’t even go there. All I’ll say is antique coffee table.), and security. If only I had known then what I know now.
Written by: Julio Montes
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