Deciding what to keep and what to discard when moving out can be harder than you think. Once you’ve gone through the must-take and will-leave lists, you’ll be left with a number of household items that you won’t be sure what to do with.
First of all, you may not have enough space in the new home for all the furniture items you want to take with you.
Secondly, your current pieces may not match the interior of the new place.
And thirdly, some of the furniture you’re moving may have already been made redundant by the fact that the new house or apartment is fully furnished.
And yet, the logical choice of getting rid of your unneeded furniture pieces prior to the move (like selling them at a garage sale) may not work for you in case you wish to keep them for their sentimental value. Another good reason to place furniture in storage is that you think you will need those items again sometime in the near future.
Seasonal items such as clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. are one of the most frequent items people place in storage when moving simply because they won’t need them until the next season. And until that next season comes along, most people will have had enough time to figure out what they will do with the seasonal belongings they’ve stored away.
When you’re moving house, you can do the same and put some of your seasonal items in storage:
Kitchen stoves, washers, dryers, dishwashers, and refrigerators are big and heavy, so you may not have enough space for them in the new home. If you happen to be moving into temporary housing and you know you’ll be moving out again soon, then it makes sense to store away some of your large appliances until you come to need them again.
You can store books in your storage unit but sooner or later, you’ll have to decide what you’ll do with them.
Regardless of how small your new place is, you should definitely have some books in it, at least your favorite ones. However, the living space may not let you move all of your books or magazines, so it’s only normal that you should consider placing your most loved volumes in storage until you come up with a better solution in time.