Moving from one home into another is recognized by mental health professionals as a 'life event'. A life event is defined as a change in a person's circumstances that forces them to make significant adjustments. Marriage and divorce are life events. So are starting or leaving a job, having a baby or suffering a bereavement. Moving into a new home brings both practical and emotional issues. One of the biggest practical problems is storage. What do you do with everything.
One scenario where storing your belongings may create a problem is timing. Maybe you need to vacate your old premises a week or more before you are able to move into your new home. This may be because the former tenant has not yet moved on or because there are cleaning and repairs that need to be made. Alternatively, you may only be planning to be away for a few months, say, at college or in the armed forces. What do you do with everything.
Maybe you had to select your new home without sufficient time to decide if it had enough space for everything. Moving into a smaller house to save money or prevent yourself from increasing debt means that you may not have sufficient space for everything. What do you do with it all.
There are any ways to solve the problem of where to put everything. The big problem is what do you do with your excess baggage. Some things, you only need for a few weeks out of the year, like gardening tools in the spring or snow tires and Xmas decorations in the winter time. There are other belongings, like formal documents or family heirloom possessions that you don't necessarily use but you need to hang on to anyway.
One way to deal with it is to throw everything helter skelter into a spare room that you don't plan to use for anything else right away, like your future guest room or study. This keeps the clutter out of sight and allows you to keep the rest of the rooms in the house neat and tidy. However, Heaven help you if you need to go find anything. You may not even have a spare room to begin with.
One possible solution is to put everything into the garage. This gives you all the benefits and disadvantages associated with cluttering up your guest room but brings with it an extra question, where do you put the car? Finding a safe space for your sports car could be problematical if you live in a tough neighborhood or if you live in an area that is subject to blizzards, tornadoes or hurricanes.
Self storage units are a growing industry. Many companies offer spaces of all sizes, from big enough to store a few boxes and a bicycle to a garage-sized space for your antique car collection. In the long term, rental charges can accumulate to quite a sum. However, this may be the best option if you only need the space for a matter of a few weeks.
Buying low budget or second hand storage units can help a family make the most of existing space, new home or old. There are special units for DVDs, books, clothing or sheets and towels that don't encroach too much upon your living space. Special boxes or stacking units or racks can be placed in existing cupboards or closets. For your moving, finding a place to put everything does not need to be a life event in its own right.
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