April 12, 2006
Storage and Plastic Containers
Recently I cleaned out my storage sheds that had been full of junk for eleven years. Does this sound familiar? Where does all this junk come from and how does it it accumulates so fast.
What was so horrifying about all this junk that had been stacked and shoved into this small shed for so many years, was the condition of the card board boxes.
The boxes were practically non-existent. The shed leaked and water damage to the boxes and to the items in the boxes was disastrous.
Precious family pictures were so water damaged they had to be tossed into the trash along with many books.
The very worst of this big mess was the fact that mice and rats had gotten into the shed. They had chewed parts of the card board boxes and left droppings inside the boxes and all over the floor of the shed. In order to remove all the junk left in the boxes I had to wear rubber gloves.
Mice and rat droppings can cause you to get really sick if you don’t wash your hands frequently. Not only your hands it gets on your clothes and is tracked into the house no matter how careful you are.
If I only knew eleven years ago what I know now. Don’t put anything into a shed, garage, cellar or attic without a plastic container. Today plastic containers come in various sizes and colors. They have lids that fit nice and tight and you can write on them describing what is inside.
I am not selling plastic containers but I highly recommend to each and every one of you who are now storing your precious pictures and family treasures in card board boxes repack them in plastic.
Thank you for reading my article I hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to comment on this article or on any of my other articles. I would love to hear from you.
Copyright 2006 Linda Meckler
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Thank you for the nice article.
We moved to Washington state a couple of years ago from California. I want to store my old photo’s and wondered if they would keep inside of plastic containers, or somehow sweat and get ruined.
Years ago I wrote a children’s story called The Chick’s Run Wild.
I had raised 500 baby chick years before and it was a very interesting thing to do, funny and sad. A friend wanted me to raise most of them for him. I raised 40 of them for myself.
It was a fun and very interesting thing to do, writing for children.
I only got published by the local newspaper but it was still made me happy!
Sincerely, Carolyn