3 Situations When You Should Use Storage After a Breakup
Even amicable break-ups throw up some problems. If you're divorcing or splitting up with a live-in partner, then you have to decide what happens to the property you live in, your furniture and your joint possessions.
Dealing with furniture and possessions is often the trickiest thing to handle in this scenario. In some cases, it helps to have somewhere to stash your stuff until you can deal with it.
For example, you could hire storage units on your removalist's site to stow away some of your things until you can sort them out. When is this worth doing?
1. Only one of you is moving out
When some relationships break down, both of you make a clean break. You both leave your current home and divide up its contents between you. When you move out, you take your stuff with you and your partner does the same.
However, this kind of clean break doesn't always work if one of you will carry on living in the property while the other moves out. While you can keep things as they are for the time being, this might not work for either of you.
For example, if you're staying on in the property, you may want your partner to remove all their pieces of furniture and possessions as soon as they can. You may not feel able to move on while all their stuff is in your home.
If you're the one who moves out, you may not have anywhere to take your possessions for a while. You need to find somewhere suitable to live first. Also, you may not want to leave your things in your joint home now you're no longer a couple.
Hiring a removalist's storage unit solves this problem. The person who moves out can have the removals company pick up and store all their belongings securely until they are ready to move in to their new home. You both get a quick fresh start.
2. You're moving into temporary accommodation
Some couples have time to sort out what to do with their home's contents before they move out. Or, they find new permanent homes before they need to leave. However, this isn't always possible if you both move out quickly, say because your break-up coincides with the end of a rental lease or you sell the property fast.
In this instance, you could both end up in some kind of temporary accommodation. You might stay with family or friends, or you might rent a smaller apartment or house as an interim measure. You may not be able to take all your stuff with you at this stage.
Hiring storage space gives you breathing space. Your removalist can move all your stuff out, apart from the immediate things you need now, and store it on their site until you find somewhere permanent to live. They then deliver everything to your new homes.
3. You need time to think
Even friendly splits take an emotional toll. You may find it hard to agree on who takes what out of your home. For example, you might disagree on who owns a piece of furniture or on how to divide up joint possessions so you both get a fair amount of stuff. You may want to sell things that neither of you want but don't have time to do it now.
You might just not feel up to making these decisions right now. You'll be under pressure to sort out so many other things. The process of dividing up things you bought together in happier times is sometimes upsetting.
If you use your removalist's self-storage units, then you buy time. You can store away anything you can't agree on or don't know what to do with. After some time to think and calm down, you're both more likely to be able to deal with things up more rationally.
If you need help managing a move and your possessions after a break-up, then contact Zippy Removals & Storage. As well as moving you both out of your current home, we can also store stuff you can't deal with right now in our secure storage units.
