How to Live Alone

So, you are off to live alone? Well, this can be a very exciting time in your life. You are truly finally free from everyone and everything. Make sure that you have all your stuff together because living alone can be a hard thing to do.

How to Live Alone

Budget

You are going to need to manage rent, bills, fun stuff etc. Make sure that you set a strict budget because there is no one to bail you out now if you fall behind on your rent. This means forgets eating out and drinking every night, it’s time to grow up just a little bit.

Know Thy Neighbor

Time to make friends with the neighbors, or at least try to. You never know when you might need something, cup of sugar, dog sitter etc. Getting on friendly terms with a neighbor is a great way to start your living alone adventure. You might even make a new best friends. Your life will soon turn into an episode of Friends.

Make Room For Friends

If you are one of the first of your friends to live alone, get ready for guests. Your friends will be coming over non-stop as a place to hang out away from it. So make it cozy, get a good ouch, a decent TV and make sure to stock the fridge. Just make sure that your friends foot the pizza bill, it is your place after all. If you are feeling cluttered, you know where to go for storage.

Get Some Plants

Now is the time to get some pants and learn to take care of something. Plants are a great way to show yourself and your friends that you are a responsible adult. Just get something that isn’t too easy to kill, we recommend a nice succulent. If you want to take this a step further, maybe get a puppy?

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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.