You must be excited for the New Year – like, really excited. After a year like 2020, “excited” is quite an incredible understatement, isn’t it? You’ve likely been staying home a lot more than you have in the past, so this is the perfect year for your new year’s resolution to be all about organizing and decluttering that home space of yours for 2021.
At Box Me Up, we help open up our customers’ homes by giving them the space they need with our convenient mobile storage containers and self-storage services. We know storage and how to organize it well. So if your new year’s resolution involves organizing and decluttering your home or home office, then the tips below our experts had to share are exactly what you and your home are looking for.
Can’t we just toss it all away?
Tossing everything away would be the easiest plan of action. While some belongings are ripe for disposal though, many are not.
Items like lawnmowers, snow-blowers, and gardening tools are required at home, but only seasonally. The same goes for winter coats and your snorkelling gear.
The arbor a family member made for your wedding or your family’s grandfather clock still requiring restoration, are the sorts of items that carry too much sentimental value to be disposed of.
Countless files of taxes or research papers are items that are certainly creating clutter now, but will need to be accessed at some point in the future.
There are many items that create clutter in a household. Yet, many of them are also items that, clearly, you cannot simply dispose of.
The pandemic problem
Compounding the issue further this year is the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drop-off centres have stopped collecting donations in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.
While these steps are necessary in the face of the pandemic, they also stop you from easily getting rid of items that you have no use for but are in fantastic condition. Storing these items for when the threat has been neutralized has become common practise for many individuals today.
And that, of course, is only creating more clutter.
Why not just dispose of the disposable, and keep the clutter organized?
This plan is entirely sensible if you have the space for that clutter.
The problem here though, if we are going to be honest with each other, is that that is really what you were already doing.
If you are trying to organize and declutter your home now, after already keeping these items at your home, then that strategy doesn’t appear to properly work for you. Certainly, not for any extended period it doesn’t. Any strategy to hold onto these items at the house is likely to only lead to a re-cluttered space in the near future.
Mobile storage provides the best way to free your home
The best solution to free your home from clutter is to move these items out of the house! And the easiest, most convenient way to do this is by renting a mobile storage container.
All those seasonal tools and clothing items can disappear from your home when out of season. Sentimental items remain safe and protected, but stored out of the way of your everyday life. Your research and financials are kept locked away for only when you require access. Hold onto to your items for donation until the threat of COVID-19 and the pandemic are behind us.
In time for when 2021 arrives, a Box Me Up mobile storage container can arrive at your home. Take your time assessing your belongings. Go through your house and determine the items that are to leave, either for storage or disposal. Then load those items for storage at your own pace into the mobile storage container.
The advantage here is that there is no rush with mobile storage. There is no added stress of time limits the way there is with a rented moving truck. Whenever you are ready, days or even weeks later if you prefer, your mobile container will be transported to our secure Box Me Up storage facility.
Alleviate the stress of clutter
The entire idea behind this New Year’s resolution is to relieve you of added stress in your life, the clutter and disorganization of a busy household – especially in a household you have come, during the pandemic, to spend more time in these days. Now is the right time for a simpler life with fewer attachments.
So take your time to make decisions on the belongings you are going to keep, store, or dispose of – change your mind if you would like! Don’t stress. A mobile storage container provides not only the luxury of time, but also a secure environment to store your belongings for extended periods.
When Box Me Up is called to pick up your mobile container, we store it at our secure facilities in Smith Falls, Ontario. With , we are sure to have the prefect container right for your belongings. We offer heated storage as well, for more sensitive items surviving the winter within your mobile container. And every one of our containers is constructed with galvanized steel, designed to prevent leaks and pests. Your contents are safe – there really is no stress involved.
Declutter once and for all
Loading your mobile storage container can be done at your own pace, but always remember to organize the contents of your container as well as the inside of your house. Load the items you will require more frequent access to near the front of your container, burying more long-term storage items at the back.
Whether you intend to visit the Box Me Up facility to retrieve an item or have your mobile container returned to your home for access, we suggest making an inventory of your belongings. It is easy to forget about something that has been stored for extended periods of time, and having a reference may save you in the future from making unnecessary purchases.
Once everything unnecessary in your house is removed you will be able to organize the necessary items that remain in your home to suit your living style.
Keeping only what is necessary will open up the spaces in your house. It will allow more light to shine throughout rooms. It will allow the rooms to really breathe.
And when you allow for your house to breathe like that, you’ll be able to breathe more freely too.
So declutter once and for all. Do it right by taking the time required to properly determine what is necessary. Rent a mobile storage container, and then empty your house of the unnecessary.
2020 cannot end quickly enough, and we all know what our New Year’s resolution needs to be. For 2021, certainly, we all need to make space in our homes to breathe.
Learn more about how Box Me Up allows you to breathe more easily.