Using the Attic for Storage
Our house is full to the rim of stuff and I don’t think we have room to put anything else. We have plenty of furniture and odds and ends that take up space in my home and I don’t think we could make room for a new end table or any type of small furniture like that. We have been using the attic to store stuff in and I believe our attic space is running out of room too. We use to only keep the Christmas decorations up there, but now we have old antiques, dish sets, crafts and just a lot more items in bags and boxes. I know I have a lot of sports cards up there in the attic and I was running out of room in my bedroom to store them in. There are just some things you don’t want to throw away, so you save it and after a couple of decades go by, you soon learn that you have a ton of stuff and most of it might just be junk now.
If you find your self needing some extra storage space and you begin storing things in the basement or in the attic like my family has done, I will give you one good tip. Be sure that you label the things you put in storage. Even if you only plan to put a few things in storage, go ahead and label it, so later on when you add more stuff, you can label it too. We have such a hard time going in our attic now and trying to find stuff, because we didn’t label anything. If we would have just got some Primera labels or some type of self-adhesive labels, we would be able to go up in the attic and locate things easier. Instead we have to spend all afternoon looking for one thing, just because we didn’t label our things we were storing. So just make sure you don’t make the same mistakes as my family did and keep everything organized and labeled and in about 20 years from now, you will be glad that you did it this way!
