DropBy

We seem to have plenty of time before our move so I am boxing books and other small "New Home" items in advance of the removals van day - they are going off to self-storage. 

In downsizing I have already put most of my beloved books into self-storage!   There are too many for our new home. Once we get there I have a tortuous series of decisions about selecting retentions and disposing of others.

I might acquire a "shed" to be my library.  However, unlike most, my self-storage room happens have a light so I could even use it as a reading room (not serious!) but I would have had needed to include a favoured chair (and the cushions)! (LOL) As it is the room does not now have room to swing a cat - but I shall get fit if I ever have to delve into a one of the 20+ piles of archive boxes as I try to find a particular reference.

If I had the nerve, I would take my old billiard table to the self storage and create a den for it (me?) and the books and the chair. I could even include book cases.  Although this approach to using self storage is not common (if at all) in this country, I believe that  a great variety of tagged-on activity is common in the USA.

Thus, if you have a small home and would love to have say, a billiard room, a dance studio, a reading room, a sewing room, or a study, why not rent a big enough  store to accommodate your dreams!

Of course the "marketing mix" offered by the self-storage management would need to change - eg lighting, extended hours and so on: but that is another story.