When they find out a baby is coming, it’s easy for the parents to start abandoning the things that make them unique individuals. A storage unit can help with that feeling that you are losing your personhood. What’s more, it can help at every stage in a child’s life. Here’s how.
The Baby is Coming
Suddenly everything is in the way. That piece of furniture you love that you spent so much money on? It’s in the way. That other piece that came from your beloved great-grandmother? It’s in the way. And on it goes. There’s nowhere to put your album collection, your sports equipment, and other items that were vital to your life.
This need to pare down what you own is common when a baby is coming. However, it doesn’t mean you have to give everything up. A storage unit can be an inexpensive way to maintain your belongings until you get a bigger home or until the baby has gotten big enough to respect your grandmother’s antique full-length mirror.
The Toddler is Growing
As babies become toddlers, things start to change again. There are things in the house that are dangerous to the little wanderer. You may have to get rid of things that you will miss later on. It is possible to declutter your home in a way you won’t later regret.
To save your favorite collectibles and other items, you can tuck them away in the storage unit. Someday, when little fingers can’t hurt them, you will get those items out of storage and put them back on the shelves where you can see them. You can use the unit to transition baby items out of the house until you need them again for baby number two or you decide to sell them.
They Have Their Own Hobbies
As children grow bigger, they begin to develop their own hobbies. To accommodate their collections, you need to move more of your stuff. Now the storage unit is used for both their seasonal items and yours. It keeps the house from getting crowded because you can always shift things back and forth as they are needed.
College is Calling
As they head to college, you may need to claim their room for your own purposes. However, you don’t want to get rid of their furniture and their extra belongings. They may want those things. To maintain your space, you rotate their things into the storage unit and reclaim some of that furniture and those collections that have been tucked away.
When they come home from college, you have everything you need to set up their bedroom again. Plus you can use the unit for their dorm fridge and other items that they will need for the new school term, but they don’t need now.
Mature and Grown
At what point are children mature and grown? It doesn’t happen overnight. Many times parents find their homes the repository of everything their grown child wants to keep but cannot take yet. The storage unit becomes full with these things as parents wait for their adult children to become settled. All of that rotating things in and out becomes especially helpful when the extra furniture that has been kept can be doled out to the kids in their own apartments.
Through it all, the goal is for parents to enjoy raising their children without feeling like they have sacrificed stylishness and spaciousness to their children’s needs. It is possible to meet both goals when a storage unit is part of the picture.
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