If you have stuff in mini-storage, why and how long?

In My Humble Opinion
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After paying my brother’s mini-storage bill, I was struck by the number of people who have stuff in storage. The place I went to has a 1,000 units, and that’s just one place.

  1. Why is your stuff in mini storage?
  2. How long has it been there?
  3. Has the total cost of renting the space exceeded the value of the stuff you’re storing?
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      • My mother has a mini-storage unit full of junk, about five by seven feet, stacked about six feet tall.
  1. Why?–She moved into a trailer that had basically no storage space compared to the small house she moved out of.
  2. How long?–5-6 years now.
  3. Yes. Much of the stuff is useless, worthless. Some of it is sentimental in nature, but for her all of it is apparently–she is simply becoming a trash-hoarder.

There’s about a dozen storage-unit businesses within five miles of my house.
I live next to a pretty large air force base however.
So you get a lot of people moving around using base housing and don’t have the room they would have if they even rented a regular apartment.
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  1. My stuff was in storage because I’m single and I was deployed with the National Guard. Uncle Sam was supposed to store it but didn’t.

  2. It was supposed to be stored for one year; the length of the deployment. I decided to move to Austin instead of going back to Dallas when the mission was over. Not having a pickup, and not wanting to pay several hundred to rent a U-Hual, it was stored for several months longer.

  3. No.