How Your Home Can Affect Stress

If you’re feeling stressed out, worried or anxious it could be a ton of different reasons. One reason that not many people take into consideration is their home. That’s right, right in front of your nose the whole time. But why the home? We are going to show you exactly why the home can cause you stress.

Common Causes of Home Stress

We always suggest seeing your medical professional if you are stressed out first to rule out other probabilities.

Bills

Running a home and bills go hand in hand. If you have been laid off or are struggling to pay rent/mortgage this can be a significant source of stress in your life. The threat of losing your home can be devastating and will ultimately increase your stress to a breaking point.

Isolation

If you are working from home, or spend significant amounts of free time at home, you could be experiencing social isolation. Social isolation is a known cause of stress for many people. The human condition is to be social, and you need it to remain mentally healthy. A good idea would to be work inside a coffee shop. Sometimes just being around people is enough to de-stress.

Clutter

You know the saying, a cluttered home is a cluttered mind. This rings very true when talking about mental stress. If you work from home, or are a full time mom or dad, having a cluttered home can stress you out. This is an easy problem to fix, rent a self storage unit, and you can take all that clutter and move it elsewhere. Great for kids toys and seasonal items.

These are common sources of stress caused by the home. All are preventable and fixable should they become an issue. It’s important to understand the signs of stress before they become too much. Just remember, a Happy Home is a Stress Free Home.

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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.