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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 18898, member: 67&quot;]gosh veryb, when I saw the stools set upside down in the 5th and 6th photo, my imeadiate reaction was &quot;don&#039;t they allow garage sales where you live?&quot; What are you storing them for? Because with as much space to store stuff as you have in the house, and with off site storage, a two weekend sale of the lesser stuff (like those stools) might pay for a years storage on the better stuff. I look at it as, space is money and a pair of $20 stools might not be earning their keep.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each corner of space in your storage has to be justified by what it holds, what it earns. You have a 10x20 storage locker, so you should have some idea what your square footage at home is &quot;worth&quot;. If you have a home business it&#039;s easy to overlook the value of your home as office, warehouse, factory/processing center.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier someone in this thread had talked about plastic boxes that were color coded for different sales. The shop, the flea market, the garage sale. Items that didn&#039;t sell in the shop, went to the flea market, didn&#039;t sell in the flea market went to the garage sale, didn&#039;t sell in the garage sale got donated, but there was never any donations. That idea works for smalls, but it can work for furniture, and decor items too. Instead of an 18&quot; x 24&quot; box, you have a 10&#039; x 10&#039; space designated for shop, market or sale. When it doesn&#039;t sell in the shop, it gets moved down the road to the flea market.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the garage I would have a &quot;goes in the garage sale&quot; section and when it got built up enough, I&#039;d hold the sale, or pack it up and do a flea market.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also set up a front space in the garage as a pop-up shop to display items for sale on Craigslist. With this much garage sale items and this much space, it seems like a waste of money (and laziness) to have a storage locker too. Do you really need that much stuff in your furniture collection that you can&#039;t see or get at?</p><p><br /></p><p>To friends who have asked me to help sort out their hoard, I have often suggested: if it is buried or hasn&#039;t been seen in 6 months, sell it and take the money to upgrade and buy a fantastic piece (one you wouldn&#039;t normally lavish that kind of money on) and use it as a hero of your collection. The corollary to that are items you purchase as sleepers, which should go into the back bowels of the basement, and of course have a rotation, albeit much slower time wise, like perhaps every three years or five years those items are pulled out of dreamland and put up for sale to make way for the latest sleepers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gosh, I wish I had your amount of space.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I just have to add a note on one of my pet peeves. I don&#039;t like to see wall art or paintings on the floor! Hang them on the wall even if it&#039;s only two inches up from the molding or put them in a box with cardboard spacers. The frame should never touch the flooring. shame, shame, shame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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