Placing your temporarily unused possessions in a storage unit is a great idea, but it can become a big frustration if you do not know how to find anything when you need it. Most items are stored for a month or longer and very few people can recall exactly what was placed in each of the boxes when their possessions were packed up to be placed in storage. Of course, this problem becomes even more complicated if there is more than one person packing things into the boxes or if someone besides the person that packed the boxes is sent to retrieve something from the storage facility.

A simple solution to the problem of not knowing what is in the stored boxes is to make an inventory list. As you pack your possessions into the cardboard boxes, write down a simple name for every item that is placed in each box. This might seem like a tedious task or a waste of time to some people, but it will definitely come in handy when you find that you need to retrieve something from your storage unit and you do not have the time to search through every single box to find it.