After years of living in our home, we decided that we did not like the appearance of the carpets. Some of the carpets were starting to show signs of paths being worn in them from all of the foot traffic. We considered replacing the carpet on our own, but that would mean moving the furniture around by ourselves. Since neither of us had experience doing this type of work, it was also likely to take us a long time and that meant living in a semi functional house until we were finished.

Instead, we decided to look into having professionals replace the old carpeting. However, there was still the problem of what we were going to do with the furniture that was sure to be in their way. It would cost us more money if the workers had to continually move the furniture out of their way in order to continue working on the flooring. One of the remodeling companies suggested that we move all of our furniture into a self storage unit and spend a day or two with relatives while the interior of our house was being worked on. That way they could bring in a larger crew of people and work on all of the rooms at the same time so that it would be finished quicker. It was a great suggestion so I made some calls and found out that the nearby self storage facility had the perfect sized storage unit at a very affordable price. In addition, since we would not need the unit for the full month, we would be refunded part of our money when we emptied the storage unit.