Fact Friday: Offsite Storage
“Storage-space users have traditionally rented for short periods, most commonly during life changes like divorce or relocation. But in recent years a new kind of renter has emerged, one who rents for longer periods, sometimes paying thousands of dollars a year, sometimes for units in faraway cities. These new renters seem compelled to keep trading up, from a cozy “personal closet,” say, to a garage-like room, and then to a second unit or even a third.”
[Gannon, Suzanne · Hooked on Storage · New York Times · 03/08/2007]
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Thanks Deb! Startling trend, except that neither you nor I is really surprised. You can’t buy “calm,” or “style,” or “prestige,” or “the adulation of others,” but folks keep tryin’ . . .