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Storing our Stuff

Written by Nickel - 3 Comments

As many of you know, we’re preparing to put our house on the market. A big part of our preparation involves clearing out excess stuff to make our house look as spacious as possible. While we’re planning on having a moving sale, there are a number of things that we want out of the house in the short term, but don’t actually want to part with. Thus, we’ve rented a storage room at the local Stor-N-Lok. For $69/month we get a 5 x 10 ft. storage room to do with what we please. I have no idea if this is a good or bad deal, but it’s convenient to our house and we’ll only need it for a couple of months, so I’m not particularly concerned. But here’s a money saving tip if you do ending renting a storage room… Bring a padlock. We didn’t, so we ended up buying one from the front office. It would’ve been considerably cheaper to make a Wal-Mart run to pick up a lock, but we didn’t realize that we needed one — not sure why this didn’t cross our minds, we just figured they’d have locking doors, I guess. Regardless, I wasn’t about to make a special trip to Wal-Mart and brave the throngs of humanity just to save a couple bucks on something like this. Now we just have to get our stuff over there.

For more information on moving, check out my Roadmap for a Successful Relocation.

Published on March 22nd, 2006 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Moving

About the author: Nickel is the founder and editor-in-chief of this site. He's a thirty-something family man who has been writing about personal finance since 2005, and guess what? He's on Twitter!

3 Responses to “Storing our Stuff”

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Blaine Moore Says:
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I discovered the same thing last year. Sorry; I’d have warned you if I knew you were looking and had actually thought of it. Good advice, though.
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FMF Says:
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Storing those velvet, blacklight posters of Elvis, huh?
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nickel Says:
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Yes, FMF. The posters and the blacklights themselves.

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