The storage unit is a bill for a decision you haven’t made
How ‘I’ll just put it in storage for now’ becomes the most expensive choice in the whole process.
When the clock is ticking and the decisions feel heavy, storage looks like relief. The truck comes, the stuff goes somewhere safe, and you buy yourself time.
But storage is not a decision — it is a way to defer one, and it charges rent for the privilege. A $150-a-month unit kept for a year is $1,800. That is $1,800 spent to not decide, on top of whatever the contents are worth.
Sometimes a short hold is the right call — you are genuinely not ready, or you need to move people before things. But be honest about which it is. If the unit is buying time to decide, set the date you will decide, and put it on the calendar before you sign the lease.
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