Make It Easy To Find And Easy To Access! 4 Strategies For Organizing Your Mini Storage Unit

Many people who place their items into storage simply put their belongings into cardboard boxes and stack the boxes inside their unit without regard for organization or accessibility. Over time, disorganized storage units become a black hole where items go in and never come out. For many people, accessing items in a disorganized storage unit is simply too difficult and time consuming. Organizing your unit is the key to getting the most out of the space. Following these tips will help you keep your items in storage easy to find and easy to access. 

Pick a Large Enough Unit

The more crowded your storage unit is, the more difficult it will be to keep it organized. Although you can save money by picking a smaller unit, you'll pay the price in other ways. If you're having a hard time deciding how large your mini storage unit should be, gather everything that you want to store into one room. Measure the dimensions of the stuff, then add several feet onto your measurements to ensure that you can leave aisles between the rows of things when they're in storage. Presence of aisles in your mini storage will ensure that you have easy access to everything you need without messing up everything else in the unit.

Organize the Unit into Zones

Keeping like items together in your storage unit will ensure you know where to look for specific things that you need, without digging through everything else in the unit. For example, keep your holiday decorations in one section, sentimental items in another section, and seasonal clothes in a third section.

When picking areas for each zone, put those items that need to be accessed frequently toward the front of the unit and items that don't need to be accessed frequently toward the back.

Use Shelves to Stack Things

Stacking boxes can be very space efficient. However, placing bins on shelves instead of in stacks will ensure that you can easily get to individual boxes quickly and efficiently, without making a mess of the other items in storage.

Use Clear Plastic Bins

Cardboard boxes may be cost efficient, but there are a lot of downsides to storing things in cardboard boxes. Accessing anything in a sealed box can be a nuisance. Cutting through tape and re-taping boxes takes extra effort every time you need to find something. In addition, boxes aren't see through, so things can get lost in boxes that contain a lot of miscellaneous items. Use plastic bins with easy snap off lids so you can access the contents of each bin easily. Choose clear plastic bins to store your items so you can easily see the contents of each bin.

Following these tips will ensure that you can actually access and use those things in your mini storage unit when you need them. This will help ensure that your storage experience is a positive one.