Self Storage Renter Blog

How to Make the Most out of Your Storage Unit

We’re going to look at four common storage unit sizes, what you can fit in them

4 Telltale Signs You Need to Organize Your Storage Unit

There are four major signs of a disorganized storage unit. Learn what they are a...

Tips for Moving to a Smaller Home

Let us break down the steps for moving into a smaller home.

How to Pack Your Storage Unit Like a Pro

Need to pack your storage unit efficiently? Follow this guide.

Moving Safely in the Age of COVID

Until the COVID pandemic ends, you’ll need to take extra precautions when you move. Let’s cover the ins and outs of moving du...

7 Steps to an Organized Pantry

We encourage you to organize your pantry to make life easier. Here are the seven steps we take.

9 Essential Dorm Room Items for Next Semester

Before you move into your dorm room, it’s important to know what you’ll need.

5 Steps to Easily Organize Your Office

Follow these steps to make your office a more comfortable and productive space.

Thinking of Storing Your Instruments in Self Storage? Here’s How to Do It

What you need to know about storing your instruments in self storage.

Should You Store Toiletries in Your Storage Unit?

Is it wise to store toiletries? We break the topic down here.

What to Let Go of When You Move

Moving provides an excellent opportunity to declutter your stuff. Here’s how.

How to Store Rechargeable Batteries

Do you use rechargeable batteries? This is how to store them.

How to Create a Great Guest Room

Bring your guest room to the next level with these suggestions.

8 Habits of Highly Organized People

Want to be more organized in your work life? These tips can help.

How to Sell Your Old Stuff Online

Are you ready to declutter but unsure how to sell stuff you don’t need? We cover the basics here.

How to Pack Boxes Efficiently

Packing boxes efficiently takes a little time, but you’ll protect your stuff better and be able to rent a smaller, more affor...

The Best Way to Store Your Electronics

Whether you sell electronics or simply want to store an older game console, it’s important to get it right.

How to Clean Out Your Storage Space

Periodically cleaning out your storage space will help give you extra room, save you money, and refine your life. Here’s how ...

Your Closet Might Be a Mess, Here’s How to Declutter It

Ready to clean out that cluttered closet? Here’s how.

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

Originally posted March 20, 2017 Updated July 28, 2021 with a tip for the garage...

6 Common Mistakes People Make When Storing Books (and How to Avoid Them)

Is there a wrong way to store a book? There are many, and we want to help you av...

How Self Storage Can Help You Carve Some Personal Space at Home

Want to make space and use that extra room for something special? Here’s how.

Here’s How to Store Your Bike for A Long Time

Here’s how to store a bicycle in self storage for months or more.

Why You Should, and Shouldn’t, Add Shelving to Your Self Storage Space

Should you get shelving in your storage space? We present the pros and cons plus...

Can You Use Self Storage as an Office? Mostly No

The major reasons it’s a bad idea to use a self storage unit as an office are be...

How to Store Important Documents in Self Storage

Do you feel mired in paperwork? Get your documents sorted, organized, and stored...

Why It’s Hard to Get Rid of Clutter and What You Can Do About It

Letting go of things we don’t need is tough but we can take steps to ensure we d...

8 of the Best Books on Decluttering

Here are eight influential books to teach you how to master decluttering your home.

Organize and Reclaim Your Garage Using These Tips

Tired of the mess in your garage? Follow these tips to reclaim that space.

Avoid These 6 Decluttering Mistakes

Let’s go over what we see as the biggest decluttering mistakes and how to avoid them.

Here’s How Self Storage Can Help You Stage Your Home for Sale

Need to stage your home for sale? Start by decluttering it.

Make Your Small Apartment Feel Bigger With Self Storage

Self storage can help by providing you with the extra room you need for your thi...

How to Use Self Storage to Make Spring Cleaning Easy

Spring cleaning is a lot of work. Here’s how self storage can make it easier.

How Self Storage Can Help You Downsize Your Business

Downsizing a business is a challenge. Here’s how self storage can make it easier...

Need More Space? Make Your Rooms Multifunctional

Feel like you need more room in your home to do everything you love to do? The t...

How to Get the Most Out of Your Self Storage Unit

Do you want to get the most from your storage unit? Then follow these tips.

6 Simple Steps to Declutter Your Storage Space

There are a lot of great reasons to rent a self storage unit. You may use it for off-season clothing, sports equipment, yard ...

3 Easy Ways to Prevent Mold in Your Self Storage Unit

Mold can be an annoying problem in a self storage unit, but it’s easy to prevent...

How Self Storage Can Save Your Business Money

Need more space for your business, but hoping to save money? Self storage can help. Here’s how.

7 Additional Spring Cleaning Tips

When it comes to keeping your home clean, and to effective spring cleaning, there are always new tips and tricks to learn. He...

The Best Organization Apps For 2021

Home organization? Yes, there’s an app, or seven, for that. We share our favorites here.

Getting Your Home Office Organized for 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed how many people in the U.S. and abroad work. Within a few weeks in March, many people ...

How to Store Christmas Decorations

Keep your Christmas decorations in great condition year after year with these tips on storing trees, ornaments, string lights...

Preparing for Thanksgiving at Your Home

Thanksgiving can be a wonderful holiday—especially when everyone is getting along. If you’re hosting Thanksgiving at your pla...

How to Store and Protect Your Favorite Purses

Purses, handbags, and small backpacks are both useful and great-looking accessories. Keep them in good shape with these tips....

The Huge Advantages of Keeping a Home Inventory

There are numerous advantages to keeping an inventory of what’s in your home. Learn why you would want to do this as well as ...

How to Sell Your Clutter Online

When you declutter your home or office, you may find stuff you no longer need, but that is in good condition. Here are tips o...

How to Go Green with Self Storage

Being eco-friendly is all about leaving less of a carbon footprint on the planet. Here's what to look for in a green storage ...

Managing Your Souvenirs

If you enjoy traveling, you probably love collecting souvenirs. Let us help you decide what to keep, what to display, and wha...

Self Storage Lessons for New Renters

Here are some helpful lessons for anyone who has never rented a self storage unit before and is looking into doing so.

Moving to a Larger Place as Your Family Grows

Are you feeling cramped at home? Was your house or apartment the perfect size when you moved in, but now feels small because ...

5 Reasons to Use Self Storage for Your Business

So, you’re running a business, but you’re also running out of room! Maybe you do small construction or landscaping projects a...

The Smart Home in 2020

What is a smart home? Well, it’s a home with Internet integration, and the technology has come a long way in the last few yea...

The Connection Between Clutter and Health

It can be tough keeping up with home organization. A couple of stressful days may be enough to make your home messy again, to...

What to Do With Stuff You Inherited

Getting an inheritance is a mixed blessing at best. Most times, it means you’ve just lost a loved one. After the grieving, yo...

Gadgets to Make Your Bedroom a Smart Room

We’re living in an advanced technological age, but in many ways, our homes may still feel like they’re stuck in the 1990s. Th...

Teaching Kids Cleaning and Organization

Ask any parent if it’s easy to get their kids to clean and chances are you’ll get a resounding “No!” Cleaning isn’t inherentl...

Organizing Your Attic

If you live in a home with an attic, you may be wondering if it’s a good place to store various belongings, like holiday deco...

Meal Planning for a Smoother Week

What does your day look like? You get up, maybe take your kids to school, and then you attend work or school yourself. At the...

How to Store and Organize Makeup

Having trouble finding the right foundation or lipstick in the morning? Well, don’t worry, we have some helpful suggestions f...

Maximizing Your Desk and Office

Do you ever feel like you could be getting more done at work? Do you sometimes procrastinate or get distracted? These tips on...

What to Get Rid of After College

There’s nothing quite like college life. Those four years are a period of intense learning, making friends and figuring out w...

Decorating with Personal Art

At home or work, your space should be personalized. There are many ways to do this from putting tchotchkes like figurines or ...

How to Get Your Car Back in the Garage

Remember when people used to park their cars in their home garages? We do, but just barely. Joking aside, these days people u...

In a New Relationship? Here Are Tips for Cleaning Your Home!

Ah, the joy of a new relationship. Falling in love can bring out the best in you...

6 Ways to Make Your Dorm Room Feel Like Home

While there really is no place like home, following some of these tips will help make your dorm room a space where you can co...

Is Feng Shui Effective?

Feng shui practitioners claim that the practice is a science. However, feng shui is based on geometry, Chinese astrology, and...

Store Your Collectibles So Mom Won’t Throw Them Away

You’ve heard the horror stories before. I had a Mickey Mantle rookie card, bu...

5 Best Books on Decluttering

Does your home feel like a dungeon you can barely navigate? Do you just have too much stuff? Fortunately, there’s a solution ...

How to Let Go of Childhood Toys

For many families with children, toys just keep piling up year after year, taking up more space. What’s worse, kids don’t eve...

Organizing Your Cubicle at Work

If you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed at work because you couldn’t find the specific document you needed, didn’t have spa...

How to Declutter Your Vehicle

We write a lot about cleaning and organizing homes and offices, but what about your vehicle? Even those of us who keep our ho...

How to Make Your Kitchen More Efficient

Unless you’re a chef working in a restaurant, you may not have thought much about making your kitchen more efficient. Having ...

Trouble Organizing? Try a Decluttering App!

Ready to organize your office, kitchen, or entire home? The first step we recommend is decluttering. Once you get rid of extr...

How to Go Paperless

Does a paperless office appeal to you? We’re talking about no more filing cabinets, no more correspondence via mail, and no m...

Organizing Your Child’s Closet

When’s the last time you had a good look at your child’s bedroom? Whether they’re 5 or 15, many kids have a tough time keepin...

Alternatives to the KonMari Method

In 2011, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo hit bookstores...

Organizing Art and Craft Supplies

If you love arts and crafts, you may have a single closet for your supplies, or an entire craft room. At some point, you coul...

How to Stay Organized On a Busy Schedule

Adult life is full of responsibilities, from working, to paying bills, to raising kids. You may feel like you don’t have much...

7 Tips for Organizing Toys

You manage to keep most of your home tidy, but then you take a look at your child’s bedroom and simply don’t know where to st...

These Lists Will Make Cleaning Easier

When it comes to keeping your home clean, it can be easy to miss a step here or there. Business managers know this when it co...

How to Organize Your Storage Unit

Self storage units can help you move, provide an inexpensive place to keep your seasonal items, offer space for your business...

The Joy of Cleaning Clutter

One of our favorite topics here on the Renter’s Bent is organization, from how to organize paper clutter to how to organize y...

How to Keep Your Home Clean All the Time

Are you constantly dealing with a messy house and want to learn how to organize it and keep it clean? Keeping up your home wh...

Why Organized Living Leads to a Better Life

Cleaning and organizing. They’re not on most people’s lists of favorite things to do. However, those who do keep their homes ...

How to Choose the Best Planner for Your Needs

Do you feel like you rarely get everything you need to do done during the day? Or, do you feel exhausted thinking about every...

10 Tips for Hiring a Home Cleaning Service for the First Time

Hiring a home cleaning service is a great idea if you’re too busy to regularly c...

Five Home Decorating Apps for iPhone and Android

Are you planning on getting some new furniture, repainting a room, or adding to ...

Eight Organizational Projects You Can Tackle on a Long Weekend

A long, lazy weekend is a great time to relax before you have to go back to work...

Four Solutions For Home Clutter

You’re ready to declutter your home—but what are you supposed to do with all of the clutter? If Marie Kondo inspired you to g...

10 Items to Purge From Your Storage Unit

Is your storage unit stuffed with…well…stuff? A cluttered, overcrowded storage unit could mean that it’s time to ...

Four Ways to Start Your Spring Cleaning Early

Spring is a time of new life. Trees sprout new leaves, flowers grow, and the world seems to refresh itself. Spring can inspir...

Using Self Storage When Remodeling Your Home

Remodeling a home can be an exciting prospect. Perhaps you plan to enlarge your kitchen, add a bathroom, or redo the living r...

Six Alternative Uses for Your Walk-In Closet

When apartment or house hunting, it’s always a nice surprise when you find a big, walk-in closet. Your first thought might be...

How to Let Go of Stuff You Don’t Need

Over the years, we all tend to accumulate stuff we don’t need. This can include clothes you rarely wear, drawers full of mism...

Make Your New Year’s Resolution to Organize Your Home

The new year is practically upon us! For many, that means it’s time to make some...

Displaying Your Collectibles

Many of us enjoy collecting something. For some, it’s comic books or action figures. For others, it’s antique plates, Disney ...

Seven Tips for Staging Your Home

So, you’re selling your home. To increase the chances of your house selling quickly—and for a great price—stage it well. You ...

How to Store Halloween Decorations

The Halloween season may be all about haunted houses, horror movies and ghost stories, but to us, there’s nothing scarier tha...

How to Organize Mail

We all have mail coming in every day, and for busy people, dealing with it can be a drag. However, a simple system can help y...

How to Organize Paper Clutter

Whether at home or at work, it may seem impossible to prevent papers from stacking up—and up, and up. We’re constantly receiv...

Which Method of Organization is Right for You?

It’s common to go through life acquiring stuff, but at some point, our homes start to show clutter and it’s time to organize....

How to Organize and Store Cookbooks

For those of us who perhaps aren’t exactly chefs, cookbooks are a great thing to collect. You might have cookbooks containing...

Tips for Decorating Your Home in Mid Century Modern Style

Think back to when you were a kid, visiting your grandparents or great-grandpare...

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...

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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