How Self Storage Can Help During A Divorce Or Separation

Divorce or Separation

A separation or divorce can be one of the most painful and stressful experiences of your life. While having to deal with everything else, you also need to go through all of your belongings and divide them up.

Here are 5 ways how self storage can help during a divorce or separation:

1. Neutral Space To Divide Belongings
2. Keep Your Belongings Safe
3. Secure Private Paperwork
4. Provide A Temporary Home For Your Belongings
5. Storage For When You’re Downsizing

Neutral Space To Divide Belongings

Going through a divorce or separation can be difficult enough. By having a neutral space to go through things, your mental health can be spared. Renting a self storage unit can help with this.

Sorting through your belongings after sharing a life with someone can be very difficult. By renting a self storage unit, you both have a neutral space to sort in and you won’t have to keep going back to your old home.

A self storage unit also gives you the time you need to sort through your belongings. With month-to-month contracts, you can rent a storage unit for as long as you need.

Keep Your Belongings Safe

While you would like to think that your belongings would be safe in your old home, why take the chance. Your items will be safe and secure in a self storage unit and you won’t have to worry about things getting broken, go missing or getting sold. Protect yourself and your belongings by getting a self storage unit.

Secure Private Paperwork

When going through a separation or divorce, there can be a lot of documents involved. Some of these may be sensitive and you don’t want your former partner seeing them. Especially if you temporarily still live together, a storage unit can protect your documents and give you some privacy while you are going through this transition in your life.

Provide A Temporary Home For Your Belongings

Chances are, if you are going through a divorce, you will be moving. Especially if you will be staying somewhere short term while finding a new home, you don’t want to have to drag all of your furniture with you. By renting from a self storage facility, you can keep most of your belongings in a safe and secure storage unit while you search for a new home.

Storage For When You’re Downsizing

Storage units are also a great option if you will be downsizing your home. As you are already going through enough stress in your life, don’t let a cramped and cluttered home add to it. Keep all of your extra items in a storage unit until you are ready to decide whether or not you want to keep them.

At Riel Park RV & Self Storage, we have a variety of storage unit sizes with both drive-up access storage units, as well as climate controlled storage units. With access hours from 6am to 10pm, 365 days a year, you will be able to access your items whenever you need.

Give one of our storage solutions experts a call today at 780-651-8056 or reserve a storage unit online today!

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