Tue 6th May 2008 02:04AM
Hey Moms and Dads, school is out for the summer and your college-aged kids are coming home. The peaceful solitude of lounging on the couch and communicating with them long distance by phone and email is over. Your babies are coming home for the summer and you could not be happier. For the past nine months they have been incubating at college and you have been adjusting to their absence utilizing your time to develop those interests you have only have time to think about up to now. Even though your children are technically young adults, we both know they will always be your babies.
While the kids have their childhood belongings at home, they are sure to be accumulating more and more stuff like, furniture, bedding, new clothes and all those books. Do yourself a favor and assist your kids in organizing their ever growing need for more space. You want to see your kids, not their clutter.
Invest in getting your kids organized. Get online and search for storage facilities in the vicinity of your kids school. A 5x5 storage unit owned by a property management company will hold the excess baggage your kids are accumulating for a modest monthly fee. College kids do not need to be hauling the contents of their living quarters back to their parents home for three months. After all, accumulating is an ongoing process, when they return to school, more than likely, they will head back with a plethora of more items to add to their own domicile.
That 5x5 storage unit rented out by a property management company is a godsend to the space cramped life of a student. Not only does it help keep them organized, it helps them store items seasonally and by college terms. College is an investment and part of that investment includes books, lots of them. By the time your kid finishes college they will have accumulated a small library all of their own.
If your children are living in a part of the country that offers four distinct seasons, a storage unit is the perfect place to store seasonal wardrobes also. For a nominal monthly fee paid to the property management company, you have given your children the ability to keep their living quarters clear and free of clutter, without having to throw away the accumulation of life items that they and you have invested in.
Consider the benefits of keeping that storage unit all year round during your childrens college career. They will develop the following life skills through utilization of the unit: ongoing organizational skills, packing, storing, sorting and allowing them to throw away what is not important and keep items that are important.
You can enjoy the return of the kids from college, without the worry of what they are going to do with all this stuff. It can be a time to revisit the family values they grew up with and relax at home - knowing they are not being intrusive in any way regarding their belongings. College kids miss their moms and dads as much as moms and dads miss their kids. What we do not miss is the plethora of clutter.
Allow your kids the luxury of coming home to relax and feel secure and welcome knowing none of their stuff is in mom or dads way. Make it a perfect summer to enjoy the family values and life you all grew up with and love. A simple property management company owned storage unit takes the anxiety of space concerns out of the equation. It is only stuff. Put it where it belongs. A property management company can help your family find peace without clutter. Call you local property management company for ideas in storage.
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August 2005 Self Storage Blog Archive
The original article is located at: School Is Almost Out For Summer