Health & Fitness
Do You Know What's in Your Storage Unit?
Why do we spend money we don't have for storage for items we don't even use?
I have been working with a client for three months now and we are almost finished with her projects.
The end of a project always makes me a little sad because, I get to know each of my clients intimately and it’s difficult to end our "relationship." We’ve worked together on twobedrooms, a craft room, a spare room, basement, garage, crawl space, laundry room and office. Oh—and the backyard garden preparing for Hurricane Irene.
Last week she told me, since her garage was practically empty, she would really love to stop paying for the storage unit she has had for over 10 years and move all that stuff into the garage, to declutter, of course. She has been paying $150 a month* for a 5 X 17 space for boxes of things she hasn’t seen in 10 years. That is $18,000.
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Why are we paying sooo much money to keep items we obviously do not need to survive? From my years of experience, I can say with confidence that 75 percent of the items will be donated, 20 percent will be recycled (old papers, magazines) and 5 percent will be kept.
For $18,000... what did she get?* Editor's Note: This sentence has been changed and corrected. It now reads as it should.
