5 Essential Storage Unit Organization Tips

5 Essential Storage Unit Organization Tips“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.” –Robert Southey

If you want to find your possessions more easily, keep them cleaner, and protect them better, than storage unit organization is key.

Here are 5 tips for organizing your storage unit and keeping it from becoming a junk-box.

1. Categorize Items

Before you pack items to go inside your storage unit, identify which items you’ll need to access most often.

These items need to be identified before you place them in a box somewhere so you can make sure they are placed near the front of the unit where you can easily access them whenever you need.

You’ll also want to categorize items by size, weight, and even season or frequency of use, (things like holiday decorations may be better farther back). This makes it easy to know which items to place at the bottom of a stack and which to put into the unit first.

2. Choose One Standard Box Size

It may seem like you’ll save space to put things in smaller boxes, but this ends up causing more work than you think. Choosing one standard box size for most of your items will make stacking and storing things neater and easier.

Place as many items as you can fit in fewer, large boxes of the same size. Doing so will prevent you from playing Tetris when it comes to filling your unit.

3. Make a Master List

Too many storage unit users place items inside their unit, only to completely forget what they put in there. That’s why making a master list of all the items you’ve packed away comes in handy.

You can refer back to your list and remember where items are and what you packed. You can take it a step further and create a digital inventory list to check off as you pack or unpack items.

4. Draw a Layout

It may help to draw a blueprint of where you want to place items before you start unloading them. Place larger items like furniture or mattresses against the walls.

You’ll also need to leave a pathway down the center of your unit so you can walk through and reach items in the back and on both sides. Drawing a layout first will also help you avoid placing frequently needed items at the bottom of a heavy stack of boxes.

5. Label Everything

Once you’ve searched “best storage units near me,” gathered boxes, and made your layout, it’s time to grab some labels.

Your inventory list is a great start for keeping track of all you’ve packed, but you’d be surprised how easy it is to forget what you put where once items have been packed away for a few months.

If you label everything, you won’t have to open ten boxes just to find the one item you’re looking for.

Storage Unit Organization 101

The real key to storage unit organization is planning. Making a plan and sticking to it will ensure you make the most of the space and pack your items in the smartest way possible.

Browse the technology portion of our blog for ideas on how to create digital lists and helps for organizing your entire life.