Be Safe When Using Self Storage

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McKenzie Towne, Alberta Canada has a lot of self storage facilities and those self storage facilities have many different moving and storage supplies to choose from.  Some of these products you will have had experience with and some you may not.  But one item most people are sure they know how to use is the humble cardboard box.  However, this may be one of the most misused items during the moving and storing experience.   Luckily for everyone, McKenzie Towne Self Storage has some of the best and most professional self storage managers in the business.  When purchasing boxes; go to the self storage location with an open mind.  Let the experience of the self storage managers be a benefit.  It is easy to think that they are just there to sell you some cardboard boxes and get you out the door.  But that could not be further from the truth. McKenzie Towne Self Storage managers are there to make the transition people are going through as positive as possible.  They understand that some might be relocating for happy reasons and some might be moving for less fortunate reasons.  In any case, they will be able to assist everyone in selecting the right number and size of moving boxes and supplies that they need.  No one should ever purchase supplies from a location that they don’t feel comfortable with.  Make sure any boxes that are not used and are in perfect shape may be returned.

But what does all of that have to do with ones back?  One common mistake for people is to try and buy as few boxes as necessary.  Why by a small box when there is a large box just sitting there for a few more bucks?  Sounds like common sense right? Wrong.  If a person is to take several books, a blanket or two and a few pair of jeans and put in a large box, it will look good lying there on the ground but in really it is something that is next to impossible to lift, doesn’t fit on a moving dolly well and after sitting in a moving truck or a storage unit for a bit with like size boxes on top of it; well let’s just say smash and crush starts to happen.  Make the best use of small boxes for those hard to lift things.  It may take a few more boxes, but will make the moving experience much better.  Most of the family can lift the boxes and they are easy to stack.  Since the box is shorter, the slides of the box will take a lot more abuse before they will start to crumble.  Does that mean that small boxes can be stacked to the ceiling?  No, but what you do stack will be easy to lift and there will be less worry about the boxes collapsing in the moving truck or the storage unit.

Moving from McKenzie Towne Self Storage to another local area or moving from Alberta to Quebec can be stressful.  This stress can be magnified when a person’s body isn’t able to keep up with their expectations of their body.  If they expect that their thirty plus year old body can lift what it did when they where eighteen just to find out that their thirty year old body is more like a forty year body due to the doughnut damage, this will cause stress on the body and the mind.

So make sure there is plenty of time for the move and use the appropriate box to protect the mind and the back.  Not to mention the marriage.

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Disclamer: This entry is intended to promote our partner StorageMart and some or all participants received compensation.