Beware the slippery slope of storage

Here are the only 7 things I allow myself to store.

You just moved into a new home and you have a basement for the first time. Or, you’ve done a big edit of your belongings and are ready to put things back on the shelves. How to do you approach storage so you don’t end up with a big pile of random stuff you have to spend days and weeks untangling down the road?

If you’ve ever moved you know the agony of realizing you own waaaaay more stuff than you’d thought. The culprit is usually storage….storage will get you every time! It’s a dangerous business.

First, a definition: storage is a space where you put things you don’t use on a daily basis. The space can be in a basement, attic, the back of your closet, under your bed, lesser used kitchen cabinet, or a cabinet in your dining room. Storage space is defined by how it’s used, not by its location.

Storage areas quickly turn into black holes (my dreaded nemesis!) that come to haunt you on moving day: over time you forget what’s in there, the space gets dirty/dusty so you don’t want to venture in to find out what’s there, and you just keep cramming things in which exacerbates the problem.

Don’t let this be you! So what to do when storage shelves beckon?