Published on 12, July, 2020
Is storage an option - e.g. from Big Yellow or similar?
Mark (formerly Spikey) said:Is storage an option - e.g. from Big Yellow or similar?
It gets really expensive over time - probably £50 upwards a month depending on size so £600 a year.
As this seems an indefinite solution for her then I think it impractical, however if she has a plan to sell the stuff then it needs to be weighted up to see if the value of the resale is significantly more than the cost of storage (minimum contract terms need to be checked of course).
Personally I would use it as an opportunity to declutter - find a way to rank things in order of importance for the long term and work out what will fit, then start planning the disposal of everything else.
If there are any high value, low volume items then they can be sold off but the low value / high volume items are most likely best given away.
I've had house clearance companies give me quotes before (when I was moving overseas) and they offer very low values - I ended up selling most and shipping a dozen large boxes in the end which was the best balance.
Thanjs for the reply, but we tried storage once and all it did was cost her huge amounts of money and we had to take all the stuff back home again.