Items You Should Store While Moving

If you’re in the middle of packing up your home to make the move into your next dwelling, it’s important to store certain items to smooth the moving process. With that being said, what should make its way into storage during this exciting time? We’ve compiled a list of items for you.

Items to Store While Moving

Holiday Decorations

The first thing you should think of storing while in the process of moving is your holiday decorations. Halloween, Christmas, Labor Day and everything in between. These items are often large and take up a lot of room and can be difficult to move, also you may not need them for some time depending on what time of year you are moving.

Extra Appliances

If you have an extra toaster oven, microwave or a spare dishwasher lying in the garage, you should think about storing these duplicate items. Appliances are often large and hard to move around, getting rid of these items by putting them into storage will help ease the move.

Clothing

Seasonal clothing should make its way into storage as well. It’s not because they are heavy or hard to move, but they do take up a lot of room. Winter coats, jackets, snow pants, boots and all that comes with the different seasons should be thrown into storage so you can focus on the items you will be using immediately. Again, this is dependent on the time of the year you are moving.

Spare Furniture

This includes extra chairs for guests, patio tables and other spare furniture you may own. These items will take up way too much room in the moving truck or van and need to be stored because they aren’t a necessity when first moving in. Nobody is going to expect you to have the extra chairs and tables after you’ve just moved in.

There are a host of other items that you should consider storing before moving into your next home and it is very much dependent on what you have sitting in your house or garage. Even moving a few large items into a storage facility can really speed up the move and keep everyone involved happy. After you have everything in order and ready to move, it’s important to find a moving truck that can fit all of your belongings in the least amount of trips.

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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

sara ~

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.