A Storage Tip for Existing Customers (But It's Good for All You "Pre-existing" Customers to Know About This, Too!)

Today's tip--#6 if my count is correct (though counting storage tips is not a normal part of my job description)--is more applicable AFTER you've rented your storage unit--in fact, it's more applicable after you've rented your storage unit for a while (like several months or years).

It's Fall season now and the weather is starting to change (FINALLY). Cooler days, cooler evenings, cooler mornings (they're coming, I promise). If you're like a lot of people with "outside," non-climate-controlled storage units--the kind we have--you've been waiting all summer for the heat to subside so you can come out to your unit and "visit your stuff" when there is statistically less chance of you baking your brains in the sun!

In other words, you haven't been out to the property since last Spring, or longer, and so you haven't touched your stored stuff in MONTHS (maybe even YEARS)!

So here's the tip--

When you finally do make the trek over here, bring a small broom, a dustpan, a hand towel or a rag, and--if you plan on moving a lot of boxes around--some work gloves with you.

"WAIT A MINUTE!"--you may be saying to yourself (in a loud voice)--"Is this guy trying to tell me I have to come over to his storage facility armed and ready to help him CLEAN UP THE PROPERTY?!"

Well, no. (But thanks for offering.)

What I am saying is that, while you were away all that time and your stuff was sitting safely inside your unit behind a locked door--on a property which, by the way, is heavily guarded by large, African crocodiles and full-grown boa constrictors from the Amazon rain forest, kept very HUNGRY and slithering around loose amongst the mesquite trees (for SECURITY purposes)--a natural phenomenon occurred, an element of the desert known in layman's terms as DIRT, settled lightly upon your stuff.

Now, people who've never stored their belongings before in a "standard" outdoor-access type storage environment like ours are sometimes shocked and dismayed that their units have gotten DUST inside them.

But you can always tell the seasoned veterans from (no offense here) the NEWBIES who have no prior experience with this somewhat hostile climatic environment (remember now, "hostile" is a relative term, easily misconstrued)--because they already know the drill and don't need little ol' me imparting this invaluable INSIDER TIP to them. They show up PREPARED with some or all of the above. But they also know, as I do, that you DON'T need to bring these things with you EVERY SINGLE TIME you come to your unit--unless of course it really is ONLY ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR!

In that case, you'll want to leave your formal attire at home and come dressed for CASUAL CONTACT with the said elements of this our great southwestern livestyle!

By the way, if you do want to help me clean up a little outside while you're here, that is strictly on a VOLUNTEER BASIS.

Because, frankly, sweeping and picking up trash and debris on the property IS a normal part of my job description!

Which is why it's a good thing I enjoy cleaning. (But not that much, so DON'T GET ANY IDEAS! :)

Your Manager, Who Believes 'Cleanliness is Next to Godliness' (or something like that),
Paul