Meanwhile, the shit in my storage unit keeps piling up. It is way over my head now. Moreover, there are containers I've bought that are precariously on top of paper bags of my stuff that probably have shifted. It's all too much, obviously, and beyond the fact that I need the will to go through it all and the time in which to think and to, if I want, peruse all the magazines and other reading material that make up the vast majority of my stuff, I need some space in which to move stuff around. Can't do that now that my 5x5 is just about full.
So that is why I had been thinking, for some time, about getting another storage unit. And I really, really want to get one for the short term, just to give me that space. Yes, famous last words, but I'm too hemmed in to do stuff right now. And besides, if I had two storage units, I could literally re-do my storage unit so that, once I am ready to go back down to one, I would have everything in the unit I want to keep all tidy and organized because I would have a spot in which I could reorganize everything. As much as I would like to go through my things in my basement, it'd be much better if I could do it all in one building. Having another storage unit there helps me do that.
I finally began looking to see if the unit place had another unit open. They did, and the 5x10, which would have been perfect, was put up on special, like a 33% discount if you paid for half a year. But I had till the end of the month, or Friday, to rent it. After thinking for several days about whether I want to sink a few hundred more dollars into a storage unit I may be keeping for the long term (if I were being honest with myself), I decided, yes, this would spur me into finally getting my butt into gear and to actually go through my stuff.
Last/Tuesday night I went online to rent the 5x10 ... and the deal was gone. The unit was there, but the only price point available was a month-to-month, and it was expensive. However, there was just one more 5x5 available at that same 33% discount and which also expired on Friday. It's not what I wanted; instead, I'm getting the exact same-sized unit. But still, it doubles the amount of space in which I can store my stuff (temporarily, I say to myself). Do I pass this by? Do I wait and potentially allow someone else to get this? Finally, do I say to myself I'll think it over and then completely forget about it by Friday?
The amount at which I'm getting the unit is a relative steal. I don't know how much it would be if I need to extend use of the second unit for another half-year, but I won't have to deal with that problem until just before Halloween. So I got it. I don't exactly know where it is, but if it's not right across from the unit I have now, it's close. I'm imagining spending an afternoon being productive by shuttling between units, throwing things away, reading magazines all by myself, and finally putting order to chaos.
Or will I? I still have several boxes of things I haven't gone through downstairs, and it's been four months. I might swing by the unit place (with the circle lock -- which, I should say, I bought on Sunday anticipating my decision to rent out this second storage unit) and start ... or I might push it off till this weekend ... or do it next weekend ... or next month ... or never, and I will have wasted hundreds of dollars because I just didn't want to expend the energy to do the thing I know, deep down, I should do. But if I do do this, I needed to get this rental now while it's on sale. Otherwise, if I decide I need a second storage unit later, it'll cost me even more money. Or, I could just tell myself I could just finally get around to looking through my stuff and, you know, do what I promised myself I would do.
What I do or don't do about this situation will tell me a lot about myself, I'm afraid.
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