On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 7:06:46 PM UTC-4, 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 have a 90+ YO aunt. Totally blind. She lives in a senior living complex that
is HUD funded. The vast majority of occupants (but not her) are retired nuns.
It's a very nice, well maintained and secure place to live.

Unfortunately, she's a hoarder. SWMBO is her POA and 2+ years ago we got a
call from the company that runs the facility. There was a HUD inspection
coming up and there was no way that her apartment would pass. Eviction
was a possibility unless she cleaned the place up.

She wouldn't let us throw anything out and chose instead to rent a storage
facility for the minimum amount of things that we needed to remove to make
the apartment "inspectable". I pay for it every month and every few months
she reimburses me with a money order. (I haven't told her that the monthly
cost went up last year).

No has been to the unit in those 2+ years. She keeps saying that she'll want
me to bring the stuff back someday but "not yet". I can just about guarantee
that it will go straight from storage into the same dumpster as the rest of her
stuff when she dies.