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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by sanmon3186 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:44AM (#21321188)
>Storage units weren't even a thing 75 years ago. Now they're ubiquitous.

Not sure how prevalent it is in other countries especially the first world, but self-storage facilities in the US surprise me (I am an Indian). Given the average house size in USA which is second highest after Australia, I wonder what kind of useful stuff gets stored in these stores.

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by flyGuyOnTheSly on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:12AM (#21323200)
People actually forget that they are even paying for these storage lockers, so often in fact that there is a cottage industry surrounding bidding on forgotten lockers. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars

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