5 Things to Throw Away Once You Graduate

Are you a recent graduate? If so, we know that you have a ton of items from your college days that need to be thrown away. If you decide to put it off for too long, you may find that you will become cluttered and stressed out.

5 Things to Toss After You Graduate

1. Old T-Shirts

We all have old ratty t-shirts lying around, usually used for sleeping in that cramped dorm room, or wearing to a really early morning class. We suggest that you do away with the sentimental value and toss these out. If they are donate-able, go ahead and give them to someone who really need them.

2. Old Scientific Calculators

These things can still fetch a pretty penny, so we recommend that you look to sell your old calculators. Somewhere out there is a student who can’t afford to spend the $150+ on a new one. Let’s face it, you are never going to use it. Ever.

3. Old Furniture

The furniture that fit in well inside your dorm room, typically doesn’t do well outside that environment. Let’s make sure that your new home or apartment looks as little as a dorm as possible. It may be a good idea to try and sell some furniture, place it inside a storage unit for the time being.

4. Bottle Collection

The time has come and passed where it was cool to stockpile old beer cars and liquor bottles on your dorm room shelves. They may seem sentimental, but trust us, you will have many more booze filled nights in your young adulthood. Go recycle them and get some extra cash.

5. Notebooks

Unless you have younger friends taking the same classes as you, make sure that you toss out all those old notebooks. Paper is bulky and heavy and will take up way too much space for comfort.

Grads of 2022, you can always choose North Shore Mini Storage to store your unneeded dorm possessions. We are just minutes away from Capilano University.

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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.