{"id":301,"date":"2018-09-24T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/will-it-fit-1\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:05:00","slug":"will-it-fit-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/will-it-fit-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Will It Fit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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My biggest worries were whether our household goods would fit into our 10 x 20-foot storage facility, and whether everything we put aside to take to Mexico would actually fit in the truck.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Storage Facility<\/b><\/div>\n
\nFor months I worried whether we could purge and pare down enough to be able to fit our household into a storage facility. Because obviously the larger the unit, the more it would cost. And if we don\u2019t go back there for 10  years, that\u2019s a lot of money. So I wanted to minimize the size of the storage facility space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nBut we wouldn\u2019t know the answer to that question until the movers came.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nMy mounting anxiety climbed higher than the boxes stacking up around the house.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I had rented a 10×20 foot storage unit. The day before the movers came,  I went to the storage facility and asked if they happened to have larger units available, and what the process would be for getting one at the last minute if needed. They told me they had larger units available, and the additional cost wouldn\u2019t be exorbitant. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nSo when the movers came the next day, that was the first thing I discussed with them: Would what we have fit into a 10×20 foot storage space? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe expert, after looking at all of our stuff, said, \u201cIf it fits in our truck, it will fit into a 10×20. But it looks really close.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nAs they loaded everything into the moving van, I kept looking at how much was left in the house and how much space was left in the truck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nWe were getting close to the end and the truck was almost full. Our one saving grace, though, was that our space was 11 feet high, and their truck was only 8 feet high, so I knew we had some additional space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nStill, in the end, I made a determination that we had just a little too much to fit into that space. So I went to the storage facility and got us a bigger unit. This one was cavernous: 30 feet long with 14-foot ceilings. And as an added bonus, our new storage unit was directly across from the elevator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nSo in the end, it may not have fit but we went with the flow and go the stuff into storage.<\/div>\n


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BOB My biggest worries were whether our household goods would fit into our 10 x 20-foot storage facility, and whether everything we put aside to take to Mexico would actually fit in the truck. The Storage Facility For months I worried whether we could purge and pare down enough to be able to fit our … <\/p>\n

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