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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by patentatt on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:51AM (#16707019)
Sure, what if the rent/mortgage you pay per square foot in your home is greater than the rent for a storage locker down the road? And there are reasonable use cases for medium-long term storage, such as seasonal items. I don't know how many people use them this way, but I can see reasonable uses too.
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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by tbihl on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:03AM (#16707613)
To add another use case: I know a lot of military people who throw all their stuff in storage when they deploy. Faced with no costs except a storage unit and low-mileage car insurance, a lot of them come back after the better part of a year with a down payment on a house.
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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by daveslash on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#16707343)
This is exactly the situation I'm in. My storage unit is about 200 yards away, and the size of a small walk-in closet. I visit it about once a week. It's, essentially, a detached closet for my wife and me. Mostly seasonal items, camping/backpacking gear, and a small number of keepsakes.
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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by thaumaturgy on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:10PM (#16708169)
One is that I sort of accidentally ended up becoming the keeper of a whole pile of family history -- documents, photographs, memorabilia, handmade things -- and I trust the fire suppression and security systems in my storage unit much more than whatever small apartment I'm renting at the time.
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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by kbutler on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:35PM (#16710377)
For the documents and photos, could I suggest https://www.familysearch.org/ ? Pictures of the rest could go a long way to making the memory of them more accessible as well.
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Re:How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry by bluGill on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:41PM (#16710414)
For documents have you considered donating to the local historical society? Depending on what they are they might be of general interest and the historical society is probably better equipped to save them.
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