Self Storage Renter Blog

Donate Your Clutter to These Non-Profits

Want to declutter your home and do good at the same time? Then consider donating your unwanted items to one of these non-prof...

8 Steps to Decluttering Your Desk

Creative people tend to have cluttered work spaces. This may be a reflection of how the creative mind works: finding and crea...

How to Organize Shoes

Are you tired of not being able to find your shoes because you come home, kick them off, and can’t remember where they went? ...

Simple Ways to Create Space in a Small Closet

Having a large closet is great, as it allows you to put everything you want out of sight in one convenient place. However, so...

Six Tips for Selling Clutter on Craigslist

Sometimes you open up your storage unit and think I don’t even know what most of this stuff is. The message is clear: it’s ti...

9 Creative Uses for Your Garage

I love garages. When I was a kid, we had one we used mainly for storage, but there was enough room in it for a desk and a cou...

8 Tips to Steal From Professional Organizers

How do professional organizers keep their offices and homes clean and welcoming, with everything they need at hand? There are...

8 Ways to Wrangle Cords in Your House

Cords can create clutter. One of these days, we may have wireless electricity, but until then, we need to find solutions to k...

7 Ways to Organize with Shower Caddies

If you’re looking for a great way to use more of the vertical space in your home, or just want to get a few areas a little mo...

7 Organization Skills to Teach Your Kids

Good organizational skills are important to becoming successful in our society. They can help kids and adults do well in scho...

Be More Organized This Year With a Bullet Journal

What is a bullet journal? Is it a diary where you write your observations? Is it...

Nine Genius Ways to Organize Your Makeup

If you love makeup, you don’t want to just store your products; you want to show them off. That being said, sometimes your Pi...

Six New Year’s Resolutions for a More Organized 2018

Are you dreaming of a clutter-free 2018? If your organizational habits involve p...

4 Unexpected Items That Make Organizing Easy

Self storage and organizing go hand in hand. If you own more than will fit comfortably in your home, you get a self storage u...

The 9 Best Kitchen Storage Solutions

Whether your kitchen is a tiny room that you share with housemates or the bright, airy space of your Cooking Channel dreams, ...

How to Adopt a Minimalist Decorating Style in Your Home

A minimalist decorating style is so simple it should almost be self explanatory....

Handy Solutions for the Clothes Your Kids Have Outgrown

When it comes to kids and clothes, there are two undeniable facts: kids can be r...

How to Set Up a Bar at Home

We’ve all seen them on television, usually in the homes of people of means who will pour themselves a drink after work or whe...

12 Ways to Give Your Dad the Gift of Organization This Father’s Day

Father’s Day is right around the corner. Are you still scrambling for a gi...

How to Create a Great Mudroom

Have you ever hear the term “mudroom?” It was new to me, though I’m familiar with the type of room it refers to. Previously, ...

8 Unexpected Ways Your Home’s Color Scheme Affects You

What’s your favorite color? As a kid, you probably had a ready answer to that qu...

Seven Solutions for Wrangling Your Kid’s Toys

Have you ever walked into your child’s room and felt the shock would stop your h...

Zen on Wheels: 15 Ways to Organize Your Car

Is your car a traveling garbage bag? Do you find yourself uttering the phrase, “Sorry, it’s a little messy,” every time a fri...

Tips for Organizing Your Laundry Room

Doing laundry isn’t complex. It’s all about sorting, washing, drying, ironing, and folding. Aside from the last two, the rest...

50 Things to Get Rid of if You Want to Declutter This Spring

Spring cleaning starts with decluttering. After all, there’s no point in dusting...

11 Awesome Uses for Your Basement

You’ve just moved into a new place with a basement, or maybe you’ve been there for a while and have used it only for storage ...

It’s Time to Organize Your Junk Drawer

The junk drawer. Everyone has one. You keep your house in order, but there are always little things that don’t quite go anywh...

Spring Cleaning Tips for Real People

Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted six more weeks of winter, but that doesn’t mean you should put off spring cleaning. If y...

How to Create the Backyard of Your Dreams

Do you live in a home with a backyard? If so, consider yourself blessed! Backyards are fantastic for anyone who can put them ...

10 Ways to Create Space in a Tiny Bathroom

We’ve all seen the version of the perfect bathroom that interior design magazines show us. The images of marble finishing, st...

6 Unexpected Ways Self Storage Makes Your Life Better

You’ve tried all the #lifehacks in the world, but at the end of the day how much...

How to Maximize Your Wall Space

There are a lot of ways to make space when your house or apartment is just too small for your belongings. You might start by ...

6 Unusual Ways to Use Binder Clips at Your Office

You have your office arranged with your desk, computer, a bookcase or two, and a...

The New Parent’s Guide to Creating a Functional Nursery

Having a baby, and bringing that new baby home, is both one of the most heartwar...

Organizing Your Fridge For a Healthier Life

After subsisting on a diet of pie, cookies and mashed potatoes for the entire month of December (and if we’re being honest, p...

How to Plan a Successful Yard Sale

Self storage is great for keeping important belongings that you know you will need. What do you do with all those extra thing...

How to Set up a Space for Overnight Guests If You Don’t Have a Spare Bedroom

How to Store Halloween Costumes

If you’ve ever dropped more than 50 bucks on a polyester vampire costume, you know the dilemma. Halloween costumes are often ...

15 Totally Random Home Organization Hacks

Life hacks should be simple, affordable and effective. Why exert a lot of effort on something that’s meant to be easy? If you...

Preparing for Your Great American Road Trip

Ever wanted to drive across the U.S. to see the sights and experience the sheer grandeur of this continent? Or do you just wa...

How to Create Extra Space in Your Tiny Dorm Room

If your first glimpse into a dorm room was through the lens of Instagram, a Pint...

Safe, Easy Organizing for the Disabled and Elderly

Kitchens are designed with an average height, able-bodied person in mind. In mos...

10 Tech Inspired Ways to Turn Your Bathroom into a Spa

Remember your last spa day? The scent of eucalyptus, the soft bathrobe, a glass ...

Dollar Store Finds to Keep You Organized

When it comes down to it, isn’t the point of self storage to help keep your home or office organized, spacious, and free of c...

Strategizing Before You Fill Your Storage Unit

Are you planning to clean out your home and to place a houseful of your just-can’t- part-with- it-yet items into a storage un...

Decorating Apps for the Tech-Savvy Homeowner

Want to take your home decorating game to the next level? You don’t have to hire an interior designer; you’ve actually alread...

No More Tripping Over Baseball Bats: Storing Sports Equipment

Of all the things we own in the modern world, sports equipment may be the most a...

What to Store in Your Self-Storage Unit This Summer

With summer season on the horizon, the temperature is climbing up and up and we’...

Storage and Organization Tips to Make You Healthier and More Productive – Part 3: Overload

How to Choose and Customize Storage Containers

Self-storage is a convenient solution for companies and homeowners who want to hold on to various categories of products with...

Decluttering Your Home and Organizing Your Storage

If you’re like most of us, you’ve looked around the house and thought, “When did...

Using Self-Storage as Your Off-Season Wardrobe Closet

We in the Western world spend a lot of money on clothes. Over time, shirts, pant...

How To Pack and Store Your Books

I’ll admit, when putting my books in self-storage, I have always just bought some book boxes from the facility or from Costco...

3 Spring Cleaning Tips You Can’t Do Without

It’s almost that time of the year again when the birds return, the temperature r...

5 Things You Shouldn’t Put in Your Storage Unit

You want to clear space out of your home but you don’t want to put anything in your storage unit that you might need on a whi...

De-clutter Guide: How to Clean Out the Closet (Part Two)

Whether you’ve already completed your first closet purge or you’re anxiously thi...

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Donate Your Clutter to These Non-Profits

8 Steps to Decluttering Your Desk

How to Organize Shoes

Simple Ways to Create Space in a Small Closet

Six Tips for Selling Clutter on Craigslist

9 Creative Uses for Your Garage

8 Tips to Steal From Professional Organizers

8 Ways to Wrangle Cords in Your House

7 Ways to Organize with Shower Caddies

7 Organization Skills to Teach Your Kids

Be More Organized This Year With a Bullet Journal

Nine Genius Ways to Organize Your Makeup

Six New Year’s Resolutions for a More Organized 2018

4 Unexpected Items That Make Organizing Easy

The 9 Best Kitchen Storage Solutions

How to Adopt a Minimalist Decorating Style in Your Home

Handy Solutions for the Clothes Your Kids Have Outgrown