Storage - Blog Posts

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Storage Space

There was a little traffic jam the other day because of construction, and I said hey they might build a little super market or a restaurant. I pass five storage facilities on my commute every day, guess what they were building. Another storage facility for people to store more junk in. I get it, there's moving around, people need more space because apartments are tiny, etc. But how much junk do we all really need- so much that we pay for a unit to store it in for a monthly fee.

This curious human phenomenon even has its own show, "Storage Wars." Where one man's junk becomes another man's treasure- after he dies or disappears and then we auction it off and make some money off his most prized possessions. It's a great business model.

According to the Storage Business Owners Alliance there’s “$25 billion in annual revenue, self-storage is an industry that exceeds the revenue of Hollywood-In 2014, 90 percent of all self-storage spaces across the US were occupied (a record high)." We can build hundreds and thousands of units for people to put their porn, skeletons, fishing rods, most valued possessions, dusty stuff they don't want to expose, and here are humans carrying their lives with them. It's amazing how much we think we need- we love consuming and wasting then abandoning things we don't need. Is it a kind of hibernation, preparation for an Apocalypse? A security or privacy issue? A fear of hoarding in our own homes, so we take it elsewhere to let it rot? Was it the idea of frustrated cave men that couldn't have their enemies’ bones scattered around the hut because of their wives? Whatever it may be, I hope to never need a storage unit- I’ll donate stuff, sell it, whatever.

Just today I was on the light rail observing how the homeless walked along the river, with their tents set up, belongings scattered or on their backs. I remembered an old episode of The Simpsons where Krusty the Clown's sideshow Bob gets out of jail and goes to live in his storage unit for $2 a week and plots revenge against Krusty. I could afford that, accumulate some junk while I'm there, auction it off, buy a high-end tent with the money and go live by the river.

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