Our homes are our sanctuaries from the rest of the world. Your house is the place you go to be away from work or school or your other daily obligations. It is also, in the words of the late comedian George Carlin, a place for our stuff, and sometimes that stuff can get out of hand. We can accumulate so many things that it becomes hard to find a place for it all. If you are cleaning and organizing your home and realize there is no place to put a lot of the things you still want to hold on to, it may be time for you to consider self storage as an option.

An increasing number of Canadians are looking to self storage as a viable solution for handling those things we simply don’t have space for in our homes or businesses. Canada is in fact the second largest storage market in the world, and the Self-Storage Association, based in the United States, reports that Canada has over 3,000 such facilities nationwide. The facilities range from small companies where the owner may have only one location, up to corporations that have nationwide chains. To find out more about some of the self-storage facilities available to Canadians, you can visit www.centronstorage.com/self-storage-toronto.

After realizing that you need such a facility to suit your needs, picking the right one becomes the next priority. It is important to use a reputable and professional company. Modern facilities should have the latest hi-tech security and conveniences such as motion detectors and surveillance cameras. They should be clean and be well-lit for night time access. A good facility will offer a wide variety of storage space sizes and be climate-controlled to offer optimal protection for your belongings. Your possessions must be safe and secure and you must be able to get at them conveniently when you need to. Find the lowest rate that you can, but from a company that is reputable and a facility that is secure and you will save money plus have peace of mind.

While the self storage industry is still based primarily in the United States and Canada new facilities are springing up around the globe. They are a popular option for small business start-ups to keep their merchandise and can be a good temporary place for the belongings of people who are moving and have had their closing go through on their old house before they are able to move into their new home. They are also an excellent tool for those of us who simply need to get our lives organized. They offer the extra space we need for those items we don’t want to part with but also don’t currently have room for at home. If you have been searching for a solution to the overflow of items in your home or business, self-storage may be your ideal solution.

In few weeks we are going to move into  a new apartment, my husband transferred to another school and  we have to move closed to his work place. It was a week ago since we started collecting big boxes from Lotte Super, we already have a few and last night we planned to get more so while my husband is shopping for freeze chicken breast I am busy undoing the box, there’s only one big box left and it turns out too they are out of chicken.

So we decided to go to Emart Everyday to find if they have the chicken we want, on the way I found a large box. When I look inside it is empty, the box is not a normal box it is a type of box which is normally use in shipping fragile items.  I took it but it was too large to carry and it might be shameful if I am carrying a large box to Emart Everyday so we decided that I should go home with the box and my husband will go alone to Emart Everyday.

On the way near the Dunkin Donuts I saw a file of boxes it was probably from Hang Ten or Watsons, their new stock probably arrived. As much as I want to stop I didn’t do it anymore because it is already hard for me to carry the large box and other people might thought I am a garbage picker.

Collecting used big or large boxes from the supermarket is more economical than buying moving boxes, our new apartment is not going to be that far anyway, it is around 4-5 kilometers from where are living but of course we are still going to hire a truck for moving.