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Well it’s that time of year again.  The time where the garage seems more like storage shed than it does a place to park your car.  You’ve just packed the Christmas stuff away.  To your left you see the gifts you can’t bear to throw away, give away or burn.  So you put them in one of the drabbest places you could find, your garage. Luckily for you the garage is nice and warm throughout the cold winter months. Oh, it isn’t. Well, at least it is always dry. Nope, guess again. It isn’t even all that clean, with those mystery oil stains that seem to move like the “Blob” from those old science fiction movies.  It just slowly oozes from under that car you are going to fix up some day, consuming any clean cardboard box in its path.  Then there are the bikes, the folding tables, folding chairs, gold clubs, craft supplies, basically stuff that was once valuable but is now more of a faded and stained version of its once glorious self.

On one hand you can look at the above and think it is funny, because it is.  But on the other hand, where do we store most of the stuff we can’t live without?  The garage and the attic, the two most “un” climate controlled places in the house.  And for good reason, because where else are you going to put it?

That is where Lethbridge Self Storage comes in. Not sure how Lethbridge, Alberta came to have some of the most professional self storage locations in the province, but it sure does.  The facility managers at Lethbridge Self Storage will help you make the transition from “living with stuff” to just “living” so simple, you won’t know how you lived without them before.  And the good thing is that the managers you meet here will be as helpful a year after you move in as they were the day you showed up to talk about your storage needs.

Now, you are probably wondering, “What are some of the important questions I should ask?”   The answer is simple. Ask anything that comes to you that will make your storage experience more rewarding.  But here are a few to get you started.  First question you might ask the Lethbridge Self Storage associate is, “Do you have heated self storage units?”  After all, that is what makes your garage so drab in the first place.  It is cold all winter long.  Remember that time you left your soda pop out there for the night and got to have the fun time cleaning it up the next morning after it froze.  That is a thing of the past. Heated self storage units will make your valuable things, even if they are only valuable to you, still valuable when spring arrives.  Another couple of good question are “Can I access my stuff any time I like?” and “Can I drive up to my self storage unit or do I need to go up stairs?”  The right answer here is that there are no wrong questions.  But, once again, that is why Lethbridge Self Storage managers are so helpful.  They are there to ask you the questions you might not have thought of.  They can help you decide on a size of self storage unit that fits your needs, your pocket book and yo

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Saint Hubert storage places in Quebec, Canada are cold.  St. Hubert storage places are cold.  We said that twice, but we are from Texas and on a business trip to see storage places in Canada and specifically Quebec.  We buy and sell storage facilities around the world.  We have made money doing it, and would like to thank all the people and all our customers for wanting to store things.  They store everything.  They store cars and boats and skis and everything in between.  Do they store the same things in Quebec?  It is so cold here we have changed our clothes a few times today.  We run back to the hotel and shiver out of the wet snowy clothes, and stick new warm ones on.  We have worn cowboy boots before, but these snow boots are different.  We can put them on pretty fast, but they seem clumsy to walk in.  We have not fallen yet, so we guess the traction on them is good as we wander around from place to place.  There is so much snow here it blows our minds.  In Texas, we see snow once in a great while and everyone freaks out when they see it.  It snowed in Houston, Texas a few times, and while in collage, it snowed in Huntsville, Texas.

Sam Houston State University is in Huntsville, Texas.  It is not in Saint Hubert storage or in Quebec, Canada.  Now, yes, we know that it might be cold in Quebec, and full of snow, ice, hockey, and whatever else.  We know this.  We play hockey in Houston, Texas too you know.  It is not the National Hockey League, no, but a league just under it.  We pay less for the tickets than you do for your beloved NHL games.  We know everyone in Canada has heard of the Dallas Stars right?  They won a Stanley Cup with Bobby Hull’s son right?  Houston Areos, a team from a while back, had Gordie Howe on it and his three sons.  They all played together in the WHA which stands for World Hockey Association.  How can you not like that people and lovers of hockey?  Texas had Gordie Howe on its team.  We met him once in a grocery store on Voss road in Houston, Texas.

Saint Hubert storage places have never had a star and hall of famer like Gordie Howe in their midst.  Well, we do not think so anyway.  Maybe hockey should be played in the cold after all.  Not baseball though.  It hurts your hands.  Do people play baseball in Canada?  We used to try to baseball in the winter in Houston, Texas, buy we did not last long.  We hope we last longer here in the cold in Quebec, Canada at a Saint Hubert storage place we are going to visit today.  The car is cold and our fingers are cold.  We will stop for gloves now.  Yes, they have winter clothes in Texas too.  Dallas gets ice storms but do not, repeat, do not, drive in ice storms in Dallas, Texas.  They seem to be not able to slow down in ice.  The truck drivers, we mean pick up trucks, do not slow down.  They slip and slide on the many bridges in Dallas, Texas.

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When looking around for a place to put your belongings, there are a lot of things to consider, security, moving supplies, and location just to name a few. One thing that people continue to overlook, especially in the summertime, is whether to get a garage style unit or to go with one that is heated. This is a lot trickier to answer than it may first appear.

For some shoppers, it is not that hard of a decision. They may think that since a standard type of space, or a garage type unit, is cheaper then it would be obvious to go ahead and just rent that unit. This can be a very bad mistake but a decision that a lot of people will make. In a garage type unit it is very likely, depending on what state you live in, that you could completely ruin some of your belongings while storing them. This would be especially true if the items were left in there all winter long. Some areas of the country, such as the entire southwest corner of the nation, it would not make a big difference if you had heated self storage or a standard space since it does not typically get that cold in those areas.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, the reverse mistake can be made as well. If the price difference is not that great then a lot of times the potential customer will just decide to go ahead and take the temperature controlled space instead of the cheaper standard garage space. This can be a very costly error and one that can be very easy to make for any potential tenant. If you are only storing boxes and clothes or just random stuff out of your own garage in an attempt to reclaim you garage space, then there is no reason to spend the extra money on heated self storage when it is not being kept warm currently.  If you could just assume that one unit is one hundred dollars and the standard space is five dollars cheaper. It may not seem like that much of a difference but actually over the course of a year it would be a sixty dollar price difference and over the course of a decade it would cost more than six hundred dollars. Nobody in their right mind would honestly throw money in the trash but when you look at it from this perspective, it is exactly what is taking place when you get heated storing when all you need is standard.

Now to be clear, sometimes it is very important to get a proper space to fit your needs. A great example would be if you had electronics that you want to make sure to take good care of. For instance, computer equipment of any kind and also televisions or any kind of home theater equipment would be a good example of items that would definitely require that you get heated storing as opposed to a standard unit. Also, if you are storing nice leather furniture it would not be a bad idea either. Just make sure that if a heated Etobicoke storage is needed then get it. If it is not required then save your money and go ahead and just get a standard unit if that is all that you need.

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