Where Does Our Stuff Go While Living In A Camper?

A storage unit is not very big and it isn't very cheap.  We would eventually have a large metal building but we didn't want to have to work around a lot of stuff while building.  Much of the furniture I started selling off and some still needs to be sold. If I am not attached or love it, I will be letting it go and much of it was left to us and is due for replacing anyhow.  However, we still needed a place for what we wanted to keep but we really didn't want to pay monthly for a small storage unit. So, we decided that most of our stuff would go in a metal storage container that we would buy.  The shipping cost the most but we didn't have the option of picking it up so we paid $1300 for the container and $700 for freight, but now we had a large, lockable 40'x8'x(I am not sure how tall but it is tall) storage container that we could use in the future.  We wanted it hidden on the side of the barn but of course it rained for the entire weekend before it was supposed to be delivered and it was slick everywhere.  Luckily the man who was putting in our septic and water lines was there with heavy equipment because he was at least able to guide the delivery guy to a location that was not in the middle of the driveway and then pull him out because he was certain to get somewhat stuck. I was really stressing for a little bit! Now we have a large metal container in not a very good location but it functions for now and we will get someone with equipment to move it later.

In addition, I thought of my kids and their toys as well as some other things that we want to be able to pull in and out more.  The metal container kind of needed to be packed in tight to allow for optimum storage use.  Luckily, we have the old barn and my daughter had already started making a stall into her club house.  We found the stall had a door and sort of a window that propped open and even a concrete floor.  We used totes and old chests we had that I was going to get rid of to store toys and set them up a "play room".  Things like our kayaks went into the hay storage area above the barn.  We can pull up my husband's truck to the opening and my son and him can move them pretty easily in and out. I know this won't be the end of the storage issues but I feel like we have pretty good plans so far.

 Door, "window" and "playroom" pictured.