Storage Issue or People Issue

Whenever I watch home improvement television shows on channels like TLC, Discovery, and Home and Garden channel, the biggest dilemma is storage . Everybody on these shows wants more storage space. And it doesn’t matter how much existing storage space they currently have. They may have existing closets that are the size of a one bedroom apartment; they may a walk in kitchen pantry with enough space to park a SUV. But they still complain that they need more storage.

A few years ago, my wife and I moved from a home that had barley enough space for shoe storage . My kitchen was so small that it could only fit a college dorm refrigerator. The bedrooms had room for one suit and a sweater. The previous owner used a beautiful sunroom as an outdoor storage shed. We preferred beauty over clutter so we didn’t keep anything for storage. This was fine because we didn’t need much. Though our house was small, we loved it.

However, when we were looking for a new home, the top of our must have list was storage. And we wanted to make up for lost storage time. For a house to be considered an option, it had to have huge walk in closet storage, kitchen pantry storage, basement storage, and attic storage. We were tired of our cramped lifestyle. Our simple requests were not a problem. Every house built in the last decade was designed for the modern pact rat. It’s true that American’s are growing, but in more ways then waist size. Houses are growing at the same pace as our consumer needs grow.

The house we bought had plenty of storage ; actually, too much storage . We had so much storage space that some of it remained empty. But that was a few years ago. Somehow our possessions multiplied and we are getting closer and closer to using up all of our storage space. It’s running out faster than the world is running out of oil. Our kitchen pantry can’t hold all of our food storage; it is spilling into the garage. Our huge walk in closet has become my wife’s walk in closet. I have to use a guest room closet for my shoe storage and clothing storage. My car use to fit in the garage but now it sits in the driveway. I use to thing that our house was shrinking, but reality hit me that we just have too much stuff. When we first moved in we had rooms without furniture. Now furniture storage has taken over my workshop.

I use to watch these home improvement television shows and wonder how these people’s houses became so cluttered with junk storage. Didn’t they see it coming? Didn’t they ever look around their house and say I have enough stuff, I need to stop shopping? Didn’t they? No. They didn’t. I can speak for them because I am one of them. Lack of storage is not the problem. A person over consuming is the problem. 

Submitted by: Self Storage Blog Staff

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