May 26, 2025
Day 1,333 of the Adventure
I watched a video a couple days ago that surprised me at first. After thinking about it though, it doesn't surprise me much at all. It's the growing trend of people living in storage units. (
Here's a link to the video I watched) I'm not referring to shipping containers converted into homes or backyard storge sheds converted to legitimate living spaces. I'm talking about commercial storage buildings where you rent space to store your belongings. Those places with perhaps one light and no other electricity in the units at all. The ones where you have a gate code to enter the premises and there are hundreds of units. Yes, those kinds of storage units. The problem seems to mostly stem from areas where rent has become unaffordable or even unavailable. Rather than choose homelessness, people have taken to renting $150, more or less, storage units to live in. It's not something that's permitted, or even legal but to many, it seems you gotta do what you gotta do to survive. On one hand, I admire and respect the creativity and resourcefulness to find and utilize this "alternative" source for housing. On the other hand, I view it as a bit of an ominous sign. Nobody, I don't believe, at any point tells themselves ", a year from now, I'll be living in a storage unit just to survive." Yet there are obviously tens of thousands of people doing that very thing right now. Is it a lack of planning? Is it simply nothing more than unfortunate circumstances? Is it the economy in general? I would say it's all of the above and probably more. I think that the main culprit that leads to that final decision of choosing a storage unit is a sense of "It could never happen to me" syndrome. Perhaps the notion that we are immune from the hardships of life because we live in America. We never consider the possibility that we would ever have to face a decision like this. I believe it underscores the idea of developing a more self-sufficient lifestyle. One that acts as a firewall, not just against the threat of needing to live in a storage unit, or tent, or under a bridge. Instead, it's something that helps you never be in a place where debt, high costs for goods and services and general economic conditions can ever hold that much power over your life and well-being. It's something that's certainly worth considering as we continue to make our way through the recent onset of a high cost of living and economic survival.
Adventure Quote: “Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.” ― Cody Lundin
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