Maximize Your Storage Space

To ensure you are getting the most bang for your buck and utilizing your space in the most efficient way, there are a few tips to maximizing your storage area. Storage space in getting tighter and tighter in this economy.

Maximize Your Storage Space

Decluttering

The first and most valuable action in organizing your possessions is to reduce the amount of clutter. Easy tips to reducing items include,

Keep track of the items you don’t use regularly or at all
Donate clothing and older appliances that have been updated
Break down your items by the room to which they belong
Measure how much space is available and “fill” it with the items you’re keeping
Follow the bottom third rule: The lower third part of a stack of items is the least used, and more likely to be part of the donate pile
Keep your new space in mind, especially when moving. Consider how you want it to appear, IE uncluttered and clean
Use a self storage facility to store seasonal goods

Using Containers

Clear plastic containers are one of the most efficient and time-saving storage devices available. A few of their strengths include:

The visibility of the containers saves tons of time when searching for specific items
They are versatile, protecting fragile items from the weather and corrosion
The shape allows for stacking and easier storage

DIY – Storage

Lifehack offers 20 tips to DIY storage to save space, stash household items, and keep your space tidy. The ideas range from shelving to using egg cartons as storage for small items. Feel free to get creative with your space in order to maximize your value!

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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.