The Pros and Cons of Using Storage Facilities
Living in this region and especially in apartments, space is at a premium. Many apartment blocks do not have storage space so you either have to buy furniture to fit all your things in the area or declutter. From talking to clients and various other people recently, I am finding that a lot of people are following the storage facilities craze that has swept Europe and the Americas and are storing a lot of items in these facilities.If you google, you will find there are hundreds of these storage facilities popping up around Dubai and the UAE. Removal companies have them as an add on service and warehouses that were not filling up to full capacity take personal possessions and store them for a princely sum.I acknowledge that there are some pro's to using these facilities but there also many con's as well.
Pro'sThere are benefits to storing items in these warehouses such as:a. you can store sports gear such as skis and snowboards when out of seasonb. when moving abroad, it is useful to store your items in the storage facilities for a few weeks until you find your new home or have settled.c. For offices using a document retention policy, they will need to use these warehouses to store files for a certain archive period.However, a lot of people are not using these warehouse storage units for the above purposes (or if they are, there are other reasons as well).
Con'sIt seems that people are paying to store items they rarely use. What was supposed to be a temporary solution get's forgotten due to daily life taking over. In the end you are paying a fortune for items you never use.For corporates, I am finding that they are storing documents with no document retention policy in place to indicate when the stored documents should be removed from storage and shredded.People sign up for these storage facilities thinking it will be a temporary fix to get rid of the clutter in their home, but then they forget about the temporary fix and start paying thousand of dirhams or dollars in fees. In the UK, the storage facilities are self storage so you have to take the items from your home to the facilities and fill it up yourself. Here, you can get the storage company to pick it up for you and store them. As a result it is even more convenient to use these storage facilities.If you are using storage facilities currently:i. Calculate how much you are spending each month to keep your items in storage.ii. How many times have you been to the storage facility since you put the items in there.If you have been to the facility less than 2 times in a year, why are you using these facilities? Is it not better to sell, donate or throw away the items and save money?If you are moving your clutter from your home to these facilities, get in touch with Decluttr Me. We can help you declutter a lot of items in a short space of time and help you save time and money. To find out more, fill in your details here and we will be in touch.
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