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How to Pack Kitchen Items and Store Them for Moving
Your kitchen is the heart and soul of your home—and it wouldn’t be yours without all your essential kitchen items! If you’re moving, you’re probably taking as many of these items as possible to save money and make your new place feel like home. To …
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How to Store and Organize Your Holiday Decorations
Holiday decorations: they’re fun until they’re not. While great for getting into the holiday spirit, their stay in (and on) your house is temporary. Holidays don’t last year-round, and decorations must come down. From there, it’s up to you to decide where and how to …
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How to Organize a Closet: Tips & Tricks From Our Storage Experts
The closet: it’s there to make your life easier, but it’s so often a source of stress. If you’re dealing with one that’s too full, too messy, or just too difficult to organize, we’re here to help. In this guide, our storage experts here at …
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How to Move Exercise Equipment In and Out of Your Storage Facility
The purpose of exercise equipment is to help you move—but sometimes, you have to move it. For those upgrading workout setups or re-entering the exercise game, moving exercise equipment often involves a trip to the storage unit (plus a bit of heavy lifting). If you’ve …
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How to Downsize Your Home for Moving to a Smaller Space
When it comes to moving, bigger isn’t always better. Smaller spaces often have many benefits for homeowners and renters. Eco-friendly, wallet-friendly, and often psyche-friendly, downsizing is a strategy that’s gaining more popularity now than ever before. Of course, downsizing your space requires you to also …
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How to Pack Shoes for Moving: 11 Easy Tips for Packing Shoes
You need your shoes. If you’re moving, you’re naturally going to take them with you…but before you do that, you’ll need to pack them. You may even need to store them for a while! To ensure that your kicks stay in pristine condition, it’s important …
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Can You Park and Store a Car in a Storage Unit?
Self storage helps countless people organize and keep their belongings. However, there is one big-ticket item that often poses a challenge for renters and facilities worldwide. That’s right: we’re talking about the car. Here at Stor-It, customers ask us all the time: Can you park …
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How to Declutter Your Home: 7 Effective Decluttering Tips
Clutter is the enemy of a happy home. While sometimes difficult to notice at first, its slow creep eventually eats up space and can prove stressful to those living in it. Thankfully, when it comes to clutter, there is a cure. In this guide, the …
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Preparing to Move in 30 Days [Interactive Checklist]
Moving is a monumental task. Here’s how to spread it out over the course of a month for maximum success. Day 1: Take inventory of everything you’ll need to move. Day 2: Invest in packing supplies, including: boxes, bubble wrap, packing tape, and markers for …
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Benefits of Month-to-Month Storage Unit Rentals
We can all agree that the whole point of self storage is convenience. Self-storage units provide an extra place for you to hold your extra stuff so you can free up space in your home or business. You can choose your unit size, access your …
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Expert Tips on How to Open a Storage Unit Door & Lock
It’s the first step you take every time you access your storage unit. It should be easy — but sometimes it isn’t. While not exactly rocket science, unlocking your unit and opening the door can pose unique difficulties for new renters and seasoned storers alike. …
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How to Pack Glassware and Dishes When Moving
It’s a well-known fact that moving house is no walk in the park. Often considered one of the most stressful common life experiences, relocating everything you own can be at best a pain, and at worst downright exasperating. One of the trickiest categories of objects …