Standing in a UHaul store to rent a trailer

[General Tso]

helpings friend move.

This building has four floors of storage units ranging from $80 to $180 a month. It's crazy, sad, whatever word you want to use that society accumulated so much useless shit that there's a multi billion industry built around putting all that shit in dark, square rooms.

Csb

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

Just think about the impact on climate change if we could simply eliminate all of the plastic junk Americans buy. Then we throw it away or hoard it in our homes or storage units.

 

[Bulldogs1974]

Every small town in iowa has one or more storage sites.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

My neighborhood is all three car garages, and many can’t fit more than one car inside.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

At our core, we’re all hoarders.

 

[ping72]

We live in a society where we have to continuously consume, otherwise the whole thing will crash.

 

[QChawks]

Every small town in iowa has one or more storage sites.

my BIL lives in a small Iowa town and got into the storage biz a few years back.

he never has an empty unit, it's unbelieveable he says what people will pay to store for years.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

They just built one of those 4 story U Haul facilities in Iowa City where the old Chevrolet dealer once stood. ( I had poured hundreds of yards of concrete at that place. )

 

[artradley]

At our core, we’re all hoarders.

Not me, I love getting rid of crap.

 

[GOHOX69]

They just built one of those 4 story U Haul facilities in Iowa City where the old Chevrolet dealer once stood. ( I had poured hundreds of yards of concrete at that place. )

You gotta admit, it does look better than the eyesore that was there post-dealership.

 

[Moral]

Just think about the impact on climate change if we could simply eliminate all of the plastic junk Americans buy. Then we throw it away or hoard it in our homes or storage units.

This was an interesting book/thought experiment on the subject.

 

[Doodads and Hoohah]

helpings friend move.

This building has four floors of storage units ranging from $80 to $180 a month. It's crazy, sad, whatever word you want to use that society accumulated so much useless shit that there's a multi billion industry built around putting all that shit in dark, square rooms.

Csb

Agree it is ridiculous.

 

[Bulldogs1974]

my BIL lives in a small Iowa town and got into the storage biz a few years back.

he never has an empty unit, it's unbelieveable he says what people will pay to store for years.

I always wanted to put some units up and I kick myself for not doing it before materials prices went through the roof.

 

[TJ8869]

Even more sad is that we have an entire franchise of tv shows based entirely on people buying the contents of abandoned storage lockers at auction so they can resell the items for profit to new owners who will continue accumulating the crap.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Storage units seem to be great investment.

People love to buy shit. They even sacrifice years of retirement just to buy more material possessions.

 

[Sharky1203]

It's not having what you want, It's wanting what you've got.

 

[SI_NYC]

Not me, I love getting rid of crap.

Same here. I have to purge from time to time and I'm not even a big shopper.

 

[Igor Stravinsky10]

You gotta admit, it does look better than the eyesore that was there post-dealership.

I agree. It was an absolute eyesore. The concrete was all buckled up. Looked like some high school kids project.

 

[seminole97]

We live in a society where we have to continuously consume, otherwise the whole thing will crash.

I think this is a misguided take.

We have to consume food to survive, and we consume resources to build shelter and increase our comfort. Our efficiency has driven the labor required for those tasks to a level that can be filled by a small subsection of the whole. That leaves over 95% of us free to write and read books, or create and enjoy a cornucopia of other goods and services that could scarcely be imagined only a few generations ago when half the society was just trying to collect enough for us all to eat.

The vast majority want to enjoy things, and that necessarily entails consumption.

You could sit around doing jack shit and having jack shit, but most people demonstrably don't prefer that.

Doing nothing and having nothing isn't Utopia, it's Hell.

 

[Hendy hawk]

I have 2 friends that had storage units. Was a worthwhile investment for some time.
Those persons that rented started getting behind on payments and where hard to locate or call.
Usually, the stuff left in the units was crap those renters ended up not wanting. The cost of disposing the crap was sometimes difficult
because of some toxic things left and cost was high. Both are out of the storage rental business now and are very happy.
Sometimes things look great and profitable but are not what they seem to be.

 

[bhawk24bob]

I had a storage unit for a year as we did some remodeling and the guy at the front was shocked when I moved out and gave him the lock back. I guess it never happens

 

[3boysmom]

When we were getting our house ready to sell we rented a storage unit to declutter and then to store everything waiting for our house to be done. I can’t wait to get everything out of there. I am glad we kept all of our furniture. It’s all new since our kids were grown and I surely don’t want to pay whatever it would cost to replace it now

 

[desihawk]

This was an interesting book/thought experiment on the subject.

by any chance is that meant to serve as a well disguised compliment to trump?

 

[Moral]

by any chance is that meant to serve as a well disguised compliment to trump?

6D chess by that man.

 

[10kHawk]

I’ve rented a storage unit twice:

When daughter (np) came home for the summer from college

When we moved my Mom into a nursing home and parting with her possessions at that time would have crushed her

I wonder if it’s more special circumstances that just people have to much crap

 

[Tenacious E]

helpings friend move.

This building has four floors of storage units ranging from $80 to $180 a month. It's crazy, sad, whatever word you want to use that society accumulated so much useless shit that there's a multi billion industry built around putting all that shit in dark, square rooms.

Csb

We have one. We have a small two-stall car garage and a finished basement. Our storage room in our basement has great shelves we had made and custom fit, but we needed a places to store old furniture that we were thinking our kids would use in their first college apartments. You could say we would be money ahead getting rid of it and buying them new stuff and you might be right. You might also not be right. Probably a wash but we’re about at the break even point and of course my son is moving into a fully furnished unit this summer, and he will likely renew there. So, perhaps it is time to purge.

 

[billanole]

I helped a guy clean out a couple of units and it was mostly crap that he had paid to store for multiple years. Old Christmas lights and decorations, plastic yard toys, boxes of old files…. Virtually nothing of use. He spent literally thousands keeping trash dry and safe for years.
The guy said that when Walmart became a thing, the natural progression was somewhere to pay to house the crap.

 

[WolfeHawk]