Edit: Yoooooo my dad popped in, took a look and for whatever reason my stuff is still there! People must have been looking for something or someone in particular. What a stroke of luck! Now that he has a steady place he's living in, he's gonna keep the stuff at his place until I can come out and get it, whenever that happens.
Original:
Some of you may remember a while back how I discovered the storage space my parents had my stuff in was lost. Well I flew across the country and took it upon myself to dumpster dive in the hoarder's paradise of my parents' main storage space to salvage what little of my property was left that I could. It was a pain but I was able to grab a couple things, certainly not everything I wanted, or even half really. But some notable things were: my electric guitar, all of my tools, my computer, among a couple others I can't quite remember (I believe my n64 collection was also salvaged). I opened up a contract for a storage space right around the corner, and walked all my stuff there. I've been paying nearly $100 every month since. Before I flew back, I took what I could from my computer: power supply, hard drives. I never found my graphics card from my parents' storage, so I ended up having to buy a new one. My mother was kind enough to package up the rest of my desktop and ship it to me using a label I paid for online.
Nearly a year later, I receive a phone call from the storage unit. It turns out somebody robbed 5 units, which included mine. I'm on the opposite side of the country so I can't physically go there and assess the loss, but I'm not hopeful there's even anything left. I asked my dad if he could stop by to take a look, hopefully he'll actually do that.
So, by pulling myself up by my bootstraps, digging through my parent's mess and taking things into my own hands, I've wasted nearly $1000 and lost what little left I owned after my first big storage loss. Life, huh?
Original:
Some of you may remember a while back how I discovered the storage space my parents had my stuff in was lost. Well I flew across the country and took it upon myself to dumpster dive in the hoarder's paradise of my parents' main storage space to salvage what little of my property was left that I could. It was a pain but I was able to grab a couple things, certainly not everything I wanted, or even half really. But some notable things were: my electric guitar, all of my tools, my computer, among a couple others I can't quite remember (I believe my n64 collection was also salvaged). I opened up a contract for a storage space right around the corner, and walked all my stuff there. I've been paying nearly $100 every month since. Before I flew back, I took what I could from my computer: power supply, hard drives. I never found my graphics card from my parents' storage, so I ended up having to buy a new one. My mother was kind enough to package up the rest of my desktop and ship it to me using a label I paid for online.
Nearly a year later, I receive a phone call from the storage unit. It turns out somebody robbed 5 units, which included mine. I'm on the opposite side of the country so I can't physically go there and assess the loss, but I'm not hopeful there's even anything left. I asked my dad if he could stop by to take a look, hopefully he'll actually do that.
So, by pulling myself up by my bootstraps, digging through my parent's mess and taking things into my own hands, I've wasted nearly $1000 and lost what little left I owned after my first big storage loss. Life, huh?
