You Can Keep Nearly Anything in a Storage Unit

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We called him the junk man.  Every morning he would come to our Vanier storage facility in Quebec, Canada.  He was an older man who was skinny and not very well built, but boy, could he move and carry a whole lot of stuff.  He collected anything metal or steel or aluminum.  Every morning he would ask if there was something metal on the property, he could have.  It turned out pretty well, though because if customers did leave things on the property that he could use, he would take them.  Customers would leave things on the property, inside their storage spaces, and the dumpster.  Some times people who were moving out that day from their storage spaces they would leave junk that they either did not want anymore, or could nor fit in their trucks or cars.  This happens a lot on storage properties, because people are always moving in or out.  Mattresses are the one thing they leave the most behind, because mattresses when they are not covered and stored properly, are ruined.  We have lifted a whole lot of them in our time as storage managers.  We wish the junk man were in the bed mattress business too.

We have lifted so many of the mattresses that we have become experts on how to lift them. You grab them tightly from the front, flip them on your shoulder, and try to balance them perfectly on your shoulder.  Vanier storage place renters and customers have seen us do this quite often.  We even help some of our customers do this for them, if they need a hand moving them.  We do this especially for older customers, who can not do this themselves.  Metal is left behind too though.  Lawn mowers are popular to leave behind because they are awkward to put in trucks and cars.  After a long stint in the storage space too, they are hard to start and some things seem to go wrong with them.  The junk man would always welcome these sorts of items to have.  He would simply roll them and push them from one storage space to his.  His storage space was near the office.

In Vanier storage spaces in Quebec, Canada, a lot of metal was left behind over the year.  We opened up one, one day and saw a vice in it.  The customer had moved out but the vice was so heavy, he had to leave it.  He told us, which was nice, and we said we would take care of it for him.  We tried to move it but it was so heavy, we were stuck with it.  It was right in the middle of the storage space, a very bad spot to be for sure.  Our next step was to call the junk man.  He came right over in his beat up truck and parked in front of the vice.  The vice weighed hundreds of pounds, it was very heavy.  The junk man studied it for a while and as he was going to try to move it, we were called to the office to help a customer.  When we went back to the vice, the junk man was gone and so was the vice.  We have no idea how he moved it.  Good luck.

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