On Thu, 20 May 2021 10:20:16 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

On 5/19/21 11:03 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2021 20:50:48 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/19/2021 8:45 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2021 19:06:38 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

AARP magazine has an article about self storage units. I guess as a
society we like out junk and are willing to pay to keep it. The US has
90% of the storage places in the world.

One in 10 household rent space. Total of 1.9 billion sq. ft.

Average rental is 15.8 months

Six of 10 boomers visit the storage unit one a month

In a recent year. 1550,000 units were auctioned off for non payment and
abandoned.

As a society I guess we put a lot of effort into keeping crap. I would
never keep that much and when we moved about 2 1/2 years ago made many
grips to Salvation Army.
even after moving, I still got rid of stuff.

I used one when we moved. We wanted to de-junkify the house to sell
it. I rented a storage unit and put everything that wasn't absolutely
needed (including my tools) for the few months our house was on the
market. I had a new job 70mi away and was commuting on weekends so
took a pickup load a week to the new place.


When we moved I used Pods. Rented the first one when the house went on
the market and made lots of trips to Salvation Army store.

I moved to Florida in a Firebird and a van with a Uhaul for my tools.
My ex still has a house full of my junk. Her second hubby came with
all of his junk and her parents died leaving all of their junk. The
last time I was up there she just had was just little paths between
piles of junk.
I showed her how to work EBay but she can't part with anything.
Ebay is my way of thinning the junk. If I can get 99 cents it is
better than nothing and I usually make a little on the shipping. (Ebay
lists the retail cost and you get a discount).
That is my contribution to recycling ;-)

Except that now, you can't sell stuff on Ebay unless you give them your
date of birth, social security number and submit to "verification" by them.

I'd sold off lots of my old stuff on Ebay for over 20 years and was
surprised they keep a record of my total sales ($19,000!)

I'm not about to share my identity theft bait info with them so I guess
my selling days with them are over. Hello Craigslist...

Good to know. I'll cross that idea off the list. Give ebay my
personal information? Not likely.