Looking for Love this Valentine’s Day? Storage Could be the Key to a Romance.

Ah, Valentine’s Day – the romance, the love letters, the…storage? Yes, peoples, the storage.  Why? Because it may be one of the strongest weapons you have when it comes to actually having a vaguely healthy, relatively grown up relationship. (Assuming, of course, you’re into that sort of thing – no judgments here!)

Don’t believe us? Well, whether you’re married, dating or just hoping to spend Valentine’s Day with someone other than fifteen hungry felines and/or a Playstation 3, check out the many reasons storage = love.

Our Top Ten Reasons Why Relationships & Romance Require Storage:

10. You will NEVER get any action in a bedroom full of Star Wars/Sailor Moon/Hello Kitty/Hello Dolly paraphernalia. You just won’t. So pick your best collectors items and store the rest.

9. You will also NOT get any action in a bedroom so stuffed you can’t find the bed.

8. Love letters are lovely. But not when they’re from your ex and being read by a potential paramour. Keep them for sentimentality’s sake. Store them for your libido’s sake.

7.  Ever wonder why you feel like you’re in a long distance relationship even when you both live in NYC? It’s because your mate hates your place and refuses to stay over. Do some cleaning and store anything you haven’t used or worn since the first Clinton administration.

6. Shacking up doesn’t mean your place should look like a shack. If you’ve merged households, don’t try to cram both of your childhood stuffed animal collections and every piece of furniture you ever grabbed at the Hells Kitchen Flea Market into your newly christened love shack. Use our Furniture Storage and be happy you live in an age where living in sin doesn’t warrant death by stoning.

5. Speaking of death by stoning, did you know that all three St. Valentines died horrible, painful deaths? This has nothing to do with storage…we just thought you should know.

4. Married people vow to share their lives ‘til death. This death might come sooner rather than later if they try to share a 400 sq ft studio and refuse to store their beloved high school trophy collection and/or art school projects made from human hair and mustard.

3. Studies conducted by, um, the author of this blog, have proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that STORAGE IS SEXY. RRRRROWWRRRR!

2. Actually, about #3…there is something kinda sexy about storage. Shows that you can handle responsibility and prefer to live in a chaos-free environment. (Oh – wait…did that make us sound old? We meant, it’s sexy because it shows you need room for you awesome guitar and drum set collection ‘cause we only date rock stars, yo.)

And the Number One Reason Why Romance Requires Storage:

1. Should you still doubt the importance of storage in inner workings of the heart, consider this famous quote by famous novelist Leo Tolstoy:

“Storage is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I store. Everything is, everything exists, only because I store.”*

Well said, Leo, well said. Now put on your finest dancing slacks and super suave cologne and head on down to Manhattan Mini Storage! Grab a cup of coffee, store some stuff and let the Valentine’s Day magic begin!

*Okay, fine. Tolstoy actually said the word “love” wherever the words “storage” or “store” is used. But the guy was born into Russian nobility in the 19^th century and had a massive house with a library that had over 22,000 books. If he lived in a one-bedroom in Chelsea, we bet it would have been closer to our version.