How to Store Your Life While Exploring the World

Have you ever had the urge to just drop everything and go and explore the four corners of the world? Most of us have, but it is the practicalities back at home that are often the things that stop us from doing it.

Even if you are capable of managing what happens to your work and your family, what happens to everything you own while you are climbing mountains and sunning yourself on a far-flung beach? You put it into a self storage unit!

Get organised

If you are planning on going travelling for a long period of time, then you need to sort out all of the things that you are leaving behind. Whether you are giving up your house or simply don’t want to leave everything out on display, it is sensible to pack up as much as you can if you are not taking it with you.

To start with, plan what you intend to include in your luggage and set that to one side. You then need to go through everything that you own and decide what you are keeping and what you can get rid of. Anything on the pile to be discarded can then be sold, recycled or donated to charity.

Of the things that you don’t want to be parted from, you need to sort out a system so that they can be stored safely and sensibly. Put them into piles either by category or the room that they came from and think about how to pack them.

Storing fabrics

When it comes to storing fabrics such as clothes, rugs or duvets, they can take up a lot of valuable space, so think about packing them into vacuum bags. These have a small hole where air can be sucked out of them by a vacuum, reducing them in size quite significantly. When you return, just open them up and everything will return to its normal size.

Fragile items

If you have something that is particularly breakable, then it is important to pack it carefully. Make use of materials such as bubble wrap, packing foam or wood wool to cushion it from any damage during transportation. Once it is in the self storage unit, make sure that it is stacked firmly and carefully and not balanced on top of anything.

Valuables

It can be hard leaving valuables behind, whether it is a financial or sentimental value, and so leaving them in a self storage for travel can be the safest option. As these are monitored 24 hours a day, you have your own personal lock and only those with a unit can gain entry to the site, it can be the perfect way to store anything precious, no matter how big or small it might be.

Think about access

When you start loading things into your storage unit, it is good to think about how you are going to access it all when you return. Put bigger, bulkier items and the things that you are less likely to need towards the back, so you do not have to go rummaging through everything to find the essentials.

Make sure that anything with the potential to leak is all sealed up and get your stacking game on point so that there is no risk of anything toppling when there is no-one there to save it.

Packing up your life into a self storage unit is a great way to ensure that you can keep all of the things that matter to you while you explore the world and pick up where you left off when you get back.