alt Hacker NewsMy personal experience with this is my father, who lives in a rural area with 10+ acres, has placed several shipping containers on the property as storage for his junk. He's charged just over $500/mo for them. He's had them for 18 years. The value of property in those containers is maybe $5000.
Consumerism is a disease, and the USA is super good at it.
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At that point he could have financed out a pole barn or any other useful structure and owned. I can understand urban people needing space but that is expensive
When cleaning out your possessions you have to keep in mind everything has an implicit storage cost.
E.g. if you have a bunch of junk, how much would you pay for an extra closet to hide it from view?
At what point does the storage costs outweigh the value of the items?
Counterpoint: hoarding resources is an evolved, beneficial trait, at least in the past. Frugality is a very modern virtue
You never know that odd piece of metal that fell off the toy you bought 15 years ago will be useful in a few years.
Surely not $500/month per container? Do you mean for all of them together?
"This person makes different life choices than I would in that situation. Therefore, they have a disease."
I thought you could buy a used shipping container for like a grand, so that is a ridiculous rental rate.