Tips To Make Ottawa Storage Easy

Storage, especially in an Ottawa winter, can be a very not-so-fun experience. Carting all your things between a house and storage unit is made a whole lot more of a hassle when its -20 outside. Consider the following tips and tricks to make storage easier on yourself this winter, and all year long!

Bringing your things to storage, or from storage to home, has somewhat of an undeserved reputation for being a task one devotes entire evenings and weekends to, but there are several things you can do get the job done more efficiently. Consider these tips:

Buy More Than You Need, Keep The Receipts

When you’re approaching the tasks of supplying yourself with boxes, tape, markers, shelving, etc; you can spend hours trying to calculate exactly what you need before you need it, or you can save time buy buying more than you need and simply returning what’s left over when you’re done.

Running out of tape halfway through a move can set your job back by hours. Not only does running out disrupt the process of packing things up, but it requires you to go out, buy more, come back, and get back in the swing of things. If you then proceed to find out you’ve run out of markers, you can consider any shot at peace-of-mind that day gone.

Instead, simply over-supply yourself before you get started to spare yourself the hassle. With more than you need, you’re guaranteed not to run out, and taking back extras when you’re done guarantees you aren’t over-spending.

Use Time Wisely

The tasks of organizing, packing, transporting, and storing your things do not need to all occur on the same day. The beauty of storage is that for as long as you’re renting a unit, it’s freely accessible to you. You may want to get everything over with ASAP to maximize your peace of mind, but if you cause yourself undue stress, anxiety, and tension because you want it all done at once, you defeat the purpose of storage in the first place.

Consider breaking your tasks into more manageable ones, jobs that are easy to approach and finish without causing tremendous stress and tension. Organize your pool supplies, and have them ready in the trunk to be brought to storage the next day after work. That night get all your gardening stuff together, in the trunk ready for the next day, and so on. A process like this might take longer, but if its peace of mind you’re after, this will get things.

Acceptable Storage

While there is little we can directly do to make the packing and transportation of your things easier, when it comes to actually storing your stuff, peace of mind doesn’t get much more accessible than with Acceptable Storage. With storage lockers and units to suit all you needs, 24/7 security, and digital lock access, Acceptable Storage has everything you need to make storage easy. For all your Ottawa storage needs, get in touch.