Do Not Bring These Items to Your New Home

Moving and packing can be stressful enough, help to alleviate that stress but leaving certain items behind. When you are planning your new home, make sure that all the items that you bring are actually needed. To help with this, we have created a list of the most common things that you should leave behind.

New Home? Leave These Items Behind

Expired Items

It might be temping to just throw all your food items into boxes and into the moving truck. We think that before you start packing, grab some garbage bags and go through each perishable food item and throw away all the expired or nearly expired items. Doing this will save a ton of space and allow you to declutter your fridge before your big move.

Old Technology

Besides the stuff that you haven’t used in years, we suggest turning things like DVD’s, CD’s, photos and paper documents into digital copies. There is plenty of software out there that can help turn your physical collections in digital ones. Did you know that CD’s and DVD’s will go bad eventually? Another reason to convert them to digital copies!

Clothes

Everyone has clothes that they haven’t worn in ages. When you are packing your clothes up, follow the general rule: If you haven’t worn it in a year, toss it out or donate it. The amount of weight and space you can save by removing unworn clothes is huge. Plus, you are doing a good deed by donating.

Duplicate Items

You really don’t need 6 USB cables, and you REALLY don’t need 3 microwaves, so leave them behind. If you are totally unsure whether to keep them, put them in a temporary storage unit until you can decide. You never know, that third microwave might just come in handy some day.

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

megan chow

23:06 21 May 19

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01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.