Business is booming for storage facility companies. Storage facilities are popping up everywhere from rural countryside communities to urban metropolises.
Is the demand for storage in such an abundance? It must be because the amount of storage facilities currently in operation plus the pending storage facility construction is at and all time high and growing.
Can such a monolithical proportion of “stuff” be anticipating a new storage facility home? Is it all just sitting in limbo somewhere suffering because of its less than accommodating surroundings? Or can it be possible there isn’t any stuff at all (yet) and all these storage facilities are encouraging the masses to buy stash and hoard?
In the past, before the age of boundless storage facility space, would people in need of more space save for a bigger home, “The American Dream”? In the past, would people purchase less because there wasn’t any place to store more?
Is the new American Dream to own lots of stuff instead of living in a sufficiently large enough dwelling to accommodate the family’s belongings comfortably because that’s the only economically feasible option? A tradeoff, as it were.
Is this new type of easy to acquire “storage space for everyone” society changing priorities in ways that promote consumerism in a time when family size appropriate real estate is beyond many people’s realistically attainable reach? In my mind I can almost hear, “If you can’t afford a sizable abode for your family, have no fear because storage is near”.
Something seems amiss. I can’t quite extrapolate it from the the cyclical queasiness of buy, store, run out of space, get more space, buy more, store, etc….until…?
Are we building more storage space because there’s more stuff or are all these storage facilities encouraging excessive consumerism? Is it more of a combo effect of uncontrollable purchasing coupled with the rising costs of homes? Are homes of necessary size so economically out of reach for people that storage facilities are the only alternative?
Unlike the more traditional supply and demand economic system, this storage facility business explosion whirly bird presents something more unprecedented and peculiar.
Would Dr. Seuss have written a book about this? If he did, I’m hopeful he may have titled it, “The Storax” or even maybe, “Horton Stores His Pooh”.
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