Keeping Your Storage Unit Organized

When your youngest child finally goes off to college or moves out and you have an "empty nest," you may want to empty it some more. Kids leave tons of stuff behind when they go to college or leave home, often leaving you with less room and lots of stuff you do not want to keep. You can simplify all that by making your "empty nest" emptier. 

Want to Save Their Stuff, but Not in Your House?

If you want to save your kids' stuff, but you just do not want it taking up space in your house anymore, self storage units from a place like Security Self Storage are perfect. In fact, if you have two or more fully grown children with rooms of stuff in your house, rent a small storage unit per adult child, move each child's stuff into a single storage unit, and then lock them up tight. When the kids want their stuff back, hand them the keys to the corresponding units and tell them where they can go to pick it up.

Do Not Want to Save Their Stuff (and Neither Do They)?

Well, there are two directions to take with a ton of stuff that is unclaimed and unwanted by all. Throw out anything that just is not worth keeping, or give anything of remote value to a thrift store. Most thrift stores have depositories or clean fill dumpsters into which you can drop bags and boxes of old clothes, shoes, toys, etc. As for throwing out everything else, it can usually go curbside, unless you have a lot of it. Then you may have to rent a dumpster along with storage units or donations as the means of clearing out your home.

Do Not Want to Save Their Stuff, but They Do Want All or Most of It?

Help your adult children find their own storage close to where they live or go to school. They can decide to keep it there, move it back close to where they grew up, or keep it in the same city as you. If they are in college and cannot afford a storage unit, then you may have to find something affordable or make arrangements with your adult children such that they share a larger unit and agree to pay the bill when they are finally gainfully employed. There are ways to work it out so that you get the whole house to yourself again and they get to keep what matters to them.