Where can I store my stuff?

Entertainer

How about a garage. They go for £50 a month round my way.

Norma_Desmond

Or, if you know any farmers, they might let you store your stuff in a nice dry barn for little money.
(I've currently got the biggest dining table in the world in my neighbour's barn until I decide what to do with it!)

coper

I was in a similar position a few years ago and found the cheapest way was to get a shed installed in my parents' back garden. I double-wrapped everything in those plastic decorators/dust sheets and sure enough everything survived a year just fine - including the fridge/freezer and tv amazingly!

SailorSam

I think i'd ask around to try and find someone with a garage that they never used.
There was a couple on television this week who had stored all their goods in one of these warehouses split into units, the warehouse in Birkenhead had burnt down and when they read the small print in their contract they were not covered for fire. They lost everything.

anotherginger

are many people interested in renting a flat for six months with no furniture in it?

sooz

There was a storage co on the tesco deals website.

Found it http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/search.aspx?Ntt=storage&VSI=17&Ntk=primary&Nty=1&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchall&Nr=NOT%28P_Product_TypeID%3A5%29

If you have clubcard money this will 1/4 your costs.

They will also price match cheaper local storage.

I'd go with putting the minimum stuff you need into proper storage. Any of the other options - garages, barns etc - would mean your stuff was not insured. Your home contents policy may well cover you for stuff in storage anyway, meaning you don't need to pay extra for insurance.

housebuyer_abc

alexog wrote: »

As little as £25 a week! Thats £100 a month! Thats quite alot I think!
By stuff I mean all our furniture from our 2 bed flat

£25 a week is incredibly cheap for this service, I think you may just be hoping to get it for a price that doesn't make it commercially viable.

1) They need to pay staff
2) Lighting, Fire Alarms, Burglar Alarms
3) Cost of land
4) Offset against the amount they could make ifthey just turned it into housing or offices and sold the land as such -

Remember you often pay many times more this to park a car at an airport and that takes up so much less space

PasturesNew

I pay £5/week, further discounted as I paid a year in advance. This gets me a storage unit that's about 4'x4' and 8' high.

Do you really need to keep all your stuff? Compare the cost of buying it new again -v- storage costs. I just sold/gave away everything I owned a few years ago because I figured it wasn't fabulous stuff anyway and the cost of getting it into storage/keeping it in there for an unknown amount of time would mean I'd pay more in storage than I'd pay to buy everything new again. I've never owned anything of value though and most of my stuff was either second hand or 15-20-25 years old. None of it matched/fitted and I figured it'd be nice to buy everything new at some future point.

clutton_2

""I just sold/gave away everything I owned a few years ago because I figured it wasn't fabulous stuff anyway and the cost of getting it into storage/keeping it in there for an unknown amount of time would mean I'd pay more in storage than I'd pay to buy everything new again. I've never owned anything of value though and most of my stuff was either second hand or 15-20-25 years old. ""

i absolutley agree with Pastures.... we all seem to accumulate so much Stuff in our lives these days and most of it is worthless and useless...

i drastically downsized 18 months ago and rented a semi furnished place... just love the fact that i now have so little to move when i decide to move again ...

possessions can be a tie and a monster - they can hold you back for no good reason.....

"stuff" can always be replaced.. the people and experiences in your life cannot...

go travelling and enjoy .....

you can get brilliant second hand furniture from auction houses and from freecycle...

get rid of it all and start again when you come back....

letting property unfurnished is usually a lot more successful than furnished..

In all probabillity if you let it furnished you will only come back to find your "favourite" chair has stains and is torn and then you wont want to sit in it anyway....

mess0804

is anyone moving into an unfurnished flat for only 6 months? (moving furniture in, out... grrr)