Sorting Items For Storage

So you know it’s time to clear out the attic or get some headway into that pile of documents that you’ve been meaning to start filing. Maybe you’ve got some ideas for what to do with the study but there’s just too much stuff.

Sorting Items For Self Storage

Here are some helpful pointers that are sure to help you solving that storage problem and getting your rooms back.

The easiest way to start packing and sorting is to create stacks, or rather boxes for your stacks. You can start off with small boxes, just somewhere where you can place your items, and which are clearly labelled to help you make a decision with what to do with them. You can categorize your stacks differently, but what works for us were these:

IN USE OR REPURPOSED – These are the things which you definitely don’t want to throw, and are still in good, working condition, things that you foresee yourself using in the next 3 months or less. We generally suggest wires, cables and tools as well as recent documents which you might need in the coming tax season.
FOR STORAGE – These items you want to keep, but don’t have an immediate need for. A good gauge would be things that you’ve used in the last 6 months, but only once or twice. Items like seasonal sports equipment, furniture, thick winter wear…
TO GIVE AWAY – It’s important to think long and hard whether an item can really be given away. Even the homeless have some standards. Things that you genuinely don’t need like the extra mugs and stuffed toys that your children have outgrown, items which you’ve bought or received that you haven’t looked at since you’ve got them and things which are old and forgotten but still in their original packaging should go in this pile.
TO TRASH – This goes without saying. Don’t feel too bad about that favourite shirt with holes and that set of cushion covers that are threadbare from use. Only when you throw out the old can you bring in the new!

Now that you’ve got your stacks sorted out, think about calling a friend or two over to help you with sorting things out – they can help you make the difficult call of which stack things should be going into! Get started with sorting today and you’ll be that one step closer to a cleaner storage area and you’ll have packed boxes ready to move out to North Shore Mini Storage.

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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.