Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 02, 2022

Whoa, now THERE’S a story problem. Given that statistic, how many storage joints per state? Quickly now…

“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” -Steven Wright

“A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. FOUR ghosts visited Ebenezer Scrooge. Most people forget the ghost of Jacob Marley, the deceased business partner.

Every store that closes seems to spring up a storage building.

Never used one..

An old friend used to bury his guns and ammo in the back yard.

Come to think of it, he’s dead. Time to rent a metal detector.

I have two…downsized from a 50 year house to an apartment…

So, that TV program about bidding on storage units that have been foreclosed might have a very long life. That’s as scary as Fox News.

They are close to critical mass.

How many of those are secretly somebody’s cheap apartment?

It’s a great business. You need two employees, and the renters do everything themselves.

I’m trying to figure out why that’s scary.

Caulfield is getting quick tutoring in arithmetic. Education is where you find it.

Once upon a time I found how many payphones were in the US. (Patent research on switching technology)

That is actually one of our potential retirement income ideas when my husband gets too old to work his current job. I don’t see the need for self storage going away any time soon.

The problem with renting a storage unit is that inertia, combined with the acquisitiveness that made you need the unit in the first place, conspire against your ever clearing the thing out.

I have a friend who picks up a little income as a decluttering consultant. Sometimes all it takes is a neutral voice saying things like “How long since you used that? Realistically, are you ever going to use it again?” to get Stuff moving out of the house and to Goodwill, or Freecycle, or the library, or the dump. She helped us clear out half our garage two summers ago.

Now, if the self-storage units were used to store selves, that would be creepy.

Just need to make sure the monthly rent does not exceed the value of the stuff you are storing, many times it’s just easier to buy new when needed.

1 for every 5500 people (assuming a U.S. population of 270 million) is not a scary proposition.