Storing everything we own at home often means all the cupboards, the garage, the shed and even the loft are packed with stuff that stands idle most of the year.
Unless you have acres of space, it makes a lot more sense to find an alternative storage method for seasonal items. Convenient and local self storage units offer all the flexibility you’d need at a cost effective price, but lots of people don’t realise just how many types of possessions only have a seasonal use.
Winter Sports Equipment
Summer Sports Equipment
Conversely, items like surfboards, paddleboards, snorkels, and beach volleyball nets are primarily used during the summer months when the weather is warm and outdoor activities are popular. You could add kids’ activity items to this list, such as paddling pools, garden Wendy houses and sand pits.
Celebration Decorations
Christmas decorations, including lights, ornaments, wreaths, and nativity scenes, all need careful storage for most of the year. Other types of seasonal decorations include Easter and Halloween. Outdoor decorating is becoming more popular in the UK, and if you need to start from scratch and buy everything brand new every year it can get very expensive. While you’ll probably want a refresh, saving the bulk of your outdoor (and indoor) decorations makes sense.
Seasonal Clothing
Clothing items such as heavy coats, scarves, gloves, and boots can all be tucked neatly away during summer. Equally, summer clothes like swimsuits, shorts, sandals, sun hats, light shirts and lots of other types of summer clothing don’t need to take up closet space through the winter.
Gardening Tools and Supplies
Even the keenest gardeners aren’t that active during the dead of winter. Tools such as gardening gloves, spades, rakes, hoes, trowels, seed trays, propagators and loppers or secateurs probably aren’t needed when the garden is dormant. Similarly, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, grass or hedge trimmers can all be put away during the winter, possibly making room in the shed for the winter sports equipment you now want to start using?
Outdoor Furniture and Accessories
Patio furniture, umbrellas, hammocks, and outdoor cushions are expensive. Seems a pity to leave it all out to moulder and rot during the winter. Add on barbecues, lights and possibly patio heaters and you have a fair collection of summer necessaries to protect through the winter.
Décor Items
Lots of people like to have a spring refresh, swapping out heavy drapes for lighter window dressings, for instance, or switching winter duvets for cooler summer ones. Some people even like to change their wall art so it reflects the season and gives the house an uplift and a new-again feeling.
Seasonal Appliances
Small household appliances tend to be seasonal too. Think about air conditioners, fans, and dehumidifiers, heaters, electric blankets or even hot water bottles and blankets or heavy throws. Whenever you find yourself tucking something away because you know you won’t be needing it any time soon, maybe look for a storage unit to rent instead of cluttering up your home’s storage areas.
Seasonal Recreational Vehicles
Boats and jet skis might spring to mind, but you’re probably not keeping these items at home anyway. Closer to home might be your pushbike, electric scooter or e-bike, and you may not use these items as often during winter. They take up a lot of room in the garage or shed.
There are plenty of other types of possession that we don’t use all the time, or even at all anymore but which we want to keep nonetheless. Possessions such as baby items saved for future family additions, or heirlooms handed down through generations.
Whilst these types of possessions are the ones most often considered for self storage, seasonal use makes a lot of sense too. It lets you be a bit more minimalist while still having all the vital life-enhancing possessions on hand.
Thank you for reading.
