We Save the Savers

Phone Smart sales rep and blog editor Kay Johnson offers hope for all of you “pack rats” and your families

The Property Management Industry could learn from the Storage Industry on how to help customers with their own “property management.”

We Save the Savers or Word to the Wise!

As previous Phone Smart representatives have posted there are as many reasons for people to store, as there are individuals. Quite frankly, until I worked here I had never thought much about self-storage. I was in the country where there was always a machine shed, grain bin, or miscellaneous extra building to put things in. Self-storage seemed a “city” thing to do and why would anyone pay that kind of money to store stuff they could sell or give away. The only time I had put anything in storage was when my teenage son advised me that I could not take his car away and he would drive it whenever he wanted! That car was in storage the very next day!

Then I moved to town and met my second ex husband. He was a good guy but he had “stuff”! By “stuff” I mean that he had every piece of paper he had ever owned and he wanted to make room for it in my 4-bedroom house. First we started out with his “stuff” in the second bedroom downstairs. The room was crammed from floor to ceiling with such intriguing treasures as a box marked “1966 Letters” That box contained magazine subscription offers from 1966. When I advised him that they probably had written later and that we needed to clear some space by throwing that box out he was nearly mortally wounded and wondered what I had against a “collector.”

Life with this packrat got deeper and deeper mired in “stuff” I soon demanded to have the 2nd bedroom emptied because you could no longer close the door and the “stuff” was staring a process of spontaneous reproduction that was threatening to spill out into the hallway and in plain view of all who were invited into the living room. He was a really good guy but I was not having this. My motto is “if you have not used it once during the past year get rid of it, give it to someone who needs it, sell it, or discard it. Since we were unable to come to a meeting of minds on this he decided to let me have the 2nd bedroom and take over the 2 bedrooms and storage space upstairs. I fought to retain 1 bedroom as a guest room and the storage area. Even an uncluttered non-collector like myself has some “stuff” of my own.

As he brought in more and more our relationship soon became a turf war. I believe in respecting other people’s property but was reduced to sneaking small boxes of his “stuff” out to the curbside each week. That was working well until he caught me and was forever the betrayed victim.

I have a new respect for self-storage. If we had rented a 10 x 30 we would probably still be married. By the way, pack rats of America, your women call us and ask for space to put your “stuff”. They sometimes also ask if they can stick you in there with it. Don’t worry we won’t let them.

Remember, support our troops and take every opportunity to let them know how much we appreciate them!

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