Random Rant On Plastic Bins - from a Hoarding Specialist's Prospective

Howdy Collectors! It's time to corral up all of your plastic bins. They could be clear, many of them are a solid color and some of them have patterns.

The one thing I will tell ya, is they all have DIFFERENT SIZED lids! What is up with that??? Why are lids not UNIVERSAL?? Lids should not be PROPRIETARY! How am I supposed to be efficient while searching through lids for that perfect fit?

Much love to our #hoarding and #ocd clients who know exactly which lids goes to what with the quickest glance.

CityStash Storage Helps Battle Bay Area Clutter

Hello Collectors! We spend a lot of time in storage units with our clients. These units are dark, rodent infested, cold, and a lot of them don’t provide adequate units to properly store your stuff. Trips back and forth are expensive and not to mention buying the containers to store things in. Many of my clients know, storage units make for a good work out. Almost too good sometimes - I have often been sore the next couple of days. At Collector Care we are always looking for the latest and greatest way to save money and time.

Which brings me to my latest blog post! While surfing the web I came across this awesome new school take on the old school storage unit- word! May I introduce CityStash Storage?

 CityStash Storage is Taking the Self out of Self-Storage! The company aims to make the act of storing your stuff dramatically easier. With traditional self-storage, you have to haul your own belongings down to a warehouse, and possibly rent a truck and bribe your friends to help. You also have to pay for an entire unit, even if you don't fill all the space. CityStash Storage is different because they do all the work.

 

They'll deliver custom plastic containers into your living room, which you'll fill on your own schedule. CityStash Storage will then pickup up containers, boxes, and furniture and transport it all for free to their climate-controlled facility. Then, when you need a container or piece of furniture back (each is barcoded and tracked individually) back, they can deliver any or all items back to you on demand. You never leave home. All of your pickups and deliveries are managed through your online account, so the service is very easy to use! And since you pay rent on a per-item basis (a small box is $6/month, for instance), you only pay for the space you actually use.

 
Urban dwellers are using CityStash to store seasonal wardrobes and holiday decorations, as well as to create more space in closets and home offices. Businesses work with CityStash to store file boxes and spare office furniture. And college students are using the company to store their belongings over the summer rather than driving them back to their parents' house.

 

CityStash was founded in 2010 with the goal of simplifying the lives of urbanites who have too much stuff and too little space. They grew so rapidly in Washington DC (see their great Yelp reviews!) that they doubled their warehouse size and have now opened up here in the San Francisco Bay Area! You can find them at www.citystash.com/self-storage-san-francisco or call them at (415) 992-6188. CityStash Storage is located at 524 Union St. Suite #315, San Francisco CA 94133.