We now populate the odd urban locations and out of sight suburban areas with storage unit facilities. This has allowed a specialized group of people to capitalize on our near complete inability to make a decision.
I have known multiple people who while moving to a larger homes, but chose to store items in a storage facility; with the idea that they would quickly go through and sort the items for those to keep and those to dispense with. Only to have paid a decade’s worth of monthly charges and done nothing with the items let alone touched them in 10 years.
When did we lose our ability to make up our minds? How hard is it to say, I don’t need this any longer? Give it away, give it to someone whom you can borrow it back if it is a tool or piece of equipment you may need again under some extreme conditions in the future. Hell, sell it on Craigslist or EBay and rent it next time.
One of my sons has seen the storage shows and though about buying abandoned units. But realized that unless the ones he bought were sprinkled with salable treasures, he would be attempting to be selling old clothes at flea markets and having to pay storage fees for items that couldn’t sell and he did not want in the first place.
DO you have a storage unit? Should you?