How Storage Can Make a Move Easier

Moving and storage go hand in hand. Learn how renting storage can make a move easier from the professional moving experts at All My Sons Moving & Storage. 

Heads up, you’ve got a relocation incoming. From small businesses moving into their first office to college-bound young adults making their move into independent living, movers come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of difficulty. Sometimes a move requires extra space between homes, and that’s where renting a storage unit can make all the difference. 

Here are four ways renting storage space can help during a major move.

Old lease ends before the new lease begins? Have a sudden home disaster that leaves you scrambling to find a new space to live? Making a temporary move into storage could be the solution that lets you breathe a little easier.

When you choose to rent a self-storage unit or put your items into full-service storage, then you take back control of your moving timeline. There will be no need to live out of a moving truck or your car, simply pack your essentials where they are accessible to you and put the rest of your home inventory in storage until the new home is ready. 

In the event of a home disaster like a flood or a fire, you may need to make an emergency move into storage while you hunt for a new permanent living situation. Putting your items in storage gives you the freedom and space to take your time with the search and deal with insurance claims as necessary.

Major moves are the ideal time to declutter your home inventory. Purging items you don’t need in your life helps you save time, energy, and money during your move.

However, your home in transition might not be the best place to evaluate all your belongings. You can clear some space, and your mind, for the big decluttering decisions by renting a storage unit. 

Items you intend to sell but have not found a buyer for yet can safely rest in a storage unit. This keeps the item out of the way until you can make the exchange.

Kids all off to college? Go through a divorce or a job loss? Maybe you’re looking for your home for retirement and have decided that a big house isn’t going to serve you in your golden years. Perhaps you’ve just decided that less is more. 

In any case, life happened and now you’re looking at moving into a smaller space than the one you’ve been occupying. Not all your possessions will fit into your new home and your next move calls for downsizing. 

What do you do when you can’t move everything? First, you purge the items you don’t need or want in your life anymore. After you’ve decided what items need to be sold, donated, or discarded, you might still be left with items that you need or want to hang onto. Renting storage long-term can help you keep a tidy small living space and hang onto those sentimental items you’re not ready to part with yet.

You can put holiday decorations, antique furniture, family heirlooms, or memorabilia in storage and use your limited closet space for items you want more immediately on hand.

Rather than haul everything into your new home at once and turn your living room into a box maze for who knows how long, why not slow down and unpack at your leisure? This option works best for do-it-yourself movers who know they’re going to have a slow unpacking season. Instead of moving everything at once, these movers can put items into self-storage and retrieve them over a period of weeks or months. This keeps boxes out from underfoot at the new home.

Movers can start by unpacking the essentials and then return to the storage unit for more boxes until all the boxes are unpacked. With a self-storage unit acting as a middle ground between the two homes, movers do not need to feel rushed.

Hold onto what’s most important to you and make your transition into your new home a seamless experience by taking advantage of storage solutions. 

Moving local or long-distance? Ask All My Sons Moving & Storage to do all the hauling and loading. We even have storage facilities nationwide to help make your next move feel easy and stress-free. Click the quote button below to start making your next move.