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Gardening Equipment Storage - Lancaster Self Storage, Budget

Storage for My Apartment Gardening Supplies

Apartment gardening is all the rage in urban areas these days, and I definitely got on that train! I've always wanted to be a gardener, but having lived in apartments for my entire adult life, I thought it would never happen. Then, I found all sorts of great gardening ideas on Pinterest and online blogs made just for the urban gardener, and I figured out that I actually can have a garden of my own, even if I live in a one bedroom apartment!

So this spring, I set out to gather up gardening supplies and fertilizer and potting soil and pots and those packing crate things that you can turn into a vertical garden. I got everything together, and before I had even potted the first plant, the thought hit me – where was I going to keep all that stuff?

I mean, even the simplest type of real food-growing garden takes some gardening equipment and supplies! I didn't even have a small outdoor storage area like some apartments do. There was literally nowhere for me to keep these things unless I wanted to stash all my gardening stuff in my bedroom – which I did most certainly not!

So, I started searching out ideas for places to keep my gardening supplies. It's not even like I had that much, but even a few minor implements, a bag of compost, some mulch, and the potting soil I bought were taking up plenty of space in my apartment's tiny dining room. I actually even looked into larger apartments in the area to see what that would cost, since that would definitely give me more space for storing gardening supplies. But that was way out of my price range. Plus, I really hate moving!

Anyway, I finally got the idea to use a Lancaster Self Storage unit to keep all that stuff in when I wasn't actually using it. I looked at a few different self storage locations in Lancaster and came across the US Storage Centers Lancaster Self Storage location on 10^th. The location was perfect, relative to my typical stomping grounds, and it had lots of other stuff going for it, as well.

For one thing, the Lancaster Self Storage location by US Storage Centers offered a very small closet-sized unit, which I thought would be perfect for what I needed. I didn't need a ton of space, and I wasn't willing to pay a fortune for space I didn't need. I mean, I'm not cheap. I don't mind paying for what I want and need. But I wasn't about to pay double for double the square footage if I didn't need or even want that much space in a storage unit!

Besides offering small units, which obviously kept the prices lower, the Lancaster Self Storage location had competitive prices to begin with. That meant that a small US Storage Centers Lancaster Self Storage unit on 10^th was definitely within my budget – and definitely cheaper than the difference in my rent if I had decided to rent a larger apartment just to have space for my gardening stuff!

Gardening Equipment Storage - Lancaster Storage, A-American

Storing Our Lawn Chemicals Away from the Kids

Last summer we had quite a scare when our toddler daughter got into the bag of fertilizer we thought we had placed safely out of her reach in the garage. Luckily, my husband got to her before she ate anything or did any real damage, but that incident really opened our eyes. Even though we had cabinets and shelves and things in our garage designed to help keep our kids out of the lawn and garden chemicals, we still couldn't be sure they wouldn't be able to get into those things when we had our backs turned!

Right then and there, we decided we were either going to get rid of the lawn and garden chemicals or find somewhere else to keep them. Getting rid of everything wasn't really an option for me because I like for our lawn and garden to look really nice, and sometimes it takes a good fertilizer or pesticide to make that happen. So, we started looking into other options for storing our lawn and garden chemicals – all the fertilizers and composts and pesticides and herbicides and whatnot – away from our home where our kids couldn't get into them.

That's when we came across the A-American US Storage Centers Lancaster Storage location. It was close to home, and it had a lot to offer us as far as a solution for our lawn and garden care supplies went.

My husband first found the US Storage Centers A-American Lancaster Storage location on his way home from work one day, when he drove by it. He suggested that maybe a self storage unit would be an acceptable way to get all those chemicals away from the home. I wasn't really sure about that, because I thought it would cost too much money, but why not check it out? So we did check it out, and we were really surprised at what we found about the Lancaster Storage location!

For one thing, the US Storage Centers A-American Lancaster Storage location has some very small unit sizes, which is fantastic. The units are just about the size of a closet, which means they're pretty much what we needed to store our lawn and garden stuff. On top of the already reasonable per-square-foot prices of the Lancaster Storage location, the small unit sizes made the whole self storage thing very, very affordable. They even had some great specials going on for new renters that saved us even more money up front!

Gardening Equipment Storage -Long Beach Storage -15th

Storage for My Lawn Care Business

Running a lawn care business in Long Beach is great. I really love doing what I do, and I'm grateful every day that I get to be a small business owner. However, running a small business certainly comes with its problems and pitfalls. One of them for me when I first started this business was transitioning from working entirely out of my own home to working out of an office.

When I worked out of my own home, I simply used half of my wife's and my two-car garage for storing the supplies I needed to use for my lawn care business. I worked the phone and all the online stuff from our dining room table, and I just made things go from there.

However, once the business started to grow, I knew I would need to get an office. I also had to invest in some more lawn care equipment for my new employees to use when they were working on jobs at different sites from me. That was a big expense, and I needed to make sure it was protected like it could not be when it was in my garage. Not to mention, it was getting really full in that garage, which made getting the mowers in and out rather a hassle every day!

So, we started checking out warehouse options with offices. They were so expensive, though! Way out of my price range! Instead of these options, then I decided to go with a separate office and to look for storage for my lawn care equipment separately. That's when I found the US Storage Centers Long Beach Self Storage location on Atlantic.

The location was ideal for my business, as it was close to my business offices, and it was easy for me and my employees to get to. Also, there were lots of other great things about the US Storage Centers Long Beach Storage location. Here are just a few of them:

Price: The bottom line was really the bottom line when my business was making this transition. I had a particular budget in mind, and I couldn't at all afford to veer from that. The US Storage Centers Long Beach Storage location offered competitive pricing and great options for business owners, in particular. That was one of the first things that swayed me to use their facility rather than others around town.

Gardening Equipment Storage - Anaheim Self Storage

Finding Room to Garden

Gardening has always been a passion of mine, but when my family moved to an apartment in Anaheim, I just didn't think it would happen anymore. I mean, we had a small patio area with a little bit of ground that I could plant in, but where would I keep all the tools and supplies and fertilizer and such? It just didn't seem worth it, since I wouldn't be able to clear out space in our tiny apartment for the things I needed to garden.

One day I was driving through town, though, and I noticed a sign for US Storage Centers. The US Storage Centers Anaheim Self Storage location is close to my apartment – really close, in fact. That got me to thinking. If I could just get a little space for my gardening supplies for the summertime, then perhaps I could plant some things in our little outdoor space. That would be really great, I thought!

I was a little skeptical about the idea, though. I mean, it would mean that I would have to drive to pick up my gardening supplies every time I needed them, which just seemed a little silly to me. It would also probably cost a small fortune to rent a storage unit. I mean, I'd never rented one before, but I was just assuming, you know?

But I was so keen to start a little garden after this idea took root that I decided I had to at least go check it out. The next weekend when I had some free time, I decided to go talk to the manager of the US Storage Centers Anaheim Self Storage location to see what it would be like to get a small storage unit there. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found out!

The Cost

One of my primary concerns about getting an Anaheim Self Storage unit with US Storage Centers was, of course, the cost. I mean, I didn't have a ton of money to spare – we were living in a tiny apartment in order to save money for a house someday, after all! But the small units were really very affordable. As long as I could do the actual gardening on a budget, it would be totally worth my while to rent a small unit to keep my gardening supplies in.

Oh, and the bonus is that the Anaheim Self Storage location offered a great first time renter special that helped me save even more money on the first couple of months that I rented with them, which was amazing.

The Accessibility

I was also concerned about how easy it would be to get to my gardening supplies. I planned to mostly work on garden upkeep on the weekends, but there might be times when I would need to swing by after work to pick up some fertilizer or something. I was afraid that just wouldn't be feasible and that it would be hard to get into my Anaheim Self Storage unit.