Three Reasons Why They Are A Must if You’re Living in the City!

The average suburban-dweller doesn’t usually have to worry about things like hauling heavy groceries home for blocks or neighbors blaring late-night music through paper thin walls or the general smushed-up-against-a-stranger feeling of riding a 6 train. As city-dwellers, we deal with a lot of stress, but it’s worth it to live in the greatest city in the world! At Manhattan Mini Storage, we’re proud to say that there’s no reason you can’t live suburban large in at least one important way.

Storage Units in Manhattan Are:

Very Necessary: With tiny apartments and tinier closets and a human urge to collect more stuff, storage units in Manhattan are important unless you plan to become an ascetic. Whether you’re newly cohabitating or have just maxed out your Visa on a new Spring wardrobe, we say don’t fret your fondness for stuff. Just make room from it in your home away from home – a storage unit!

Multi-Purpose Rooms: If you had a house in Schnectady you might use the attic for old yearbooks, the hall closet for coats, and half the garage for all your sports gear. In a 1-bedroom East Village walkup, you’re lucky if you can fit your bed and your dresser in the same room! Storage units in Manhattan will hold anything you need but can’t fit.

Absolutely Affordable: Well they are if you purchase them from us. We have rates as low as $29/month for storage units in Manhattan – and with 17 locations in the borough, they’re convenient too. Are you already  a customer of ours? You can participate in our Refer a Friend program and put some $ back in your own wallet too!

Don’t have stuff enough to fill a whole storage unit?  Renovating or subletting your place and need a temporary storage solution and fast? Not into schlepping decorations, wardrobe, and seasonal stuff to and from a storage unit every time the weather changes? Well, we have a new program designed especially for YOU.

Introducing On Wheels by Manhattan Mini Storage, our new storage delivery service where we’ll pick up or return your stuff for free to and from your place. Here’s how it works:

1. Call 212.STORAGE to schedule a free pick-up.
2. Box your stuff that you want to store. (Need boxes? We’ll deliver them for free!)
3. We pick up the boxes to store in one of our super secure facilities until you need them back.
4. Need something back? Just call and we’ll deliver it to your door. No muss, no fuss.

With On Wheels, you can store as much or as little as you want. There is also no long-term commitment required – you can rent for as little as a month. Your rate is determined on the amount of space the stuff you store takes up. And with no hassle pick up and drop off, you won’t have to lug heavy boxes on the subway or pay for a taxi just to swap your winter clothes out for summery shorts come May.

How do you get started? Call 1-800-STORAGE (786-7243) to make arrangements and we’ll take it from there (literally!). Then look around and start thinking what you could do with all that closet space!

Because Storing Your Stuff Means Never Having To Leave Your Couch!

Real life scenarios that get you thinking about where to store your extra stuff!

Living in New York City means storage in your apartment is a rare commodity.  Chances are that you don’t have the storage space to keep all of your extras within your living space. While there are a million reasons why you may need extra storage space, here are some you may not have considered yet:

Seven Real-Life Reasons You Might Need Storage Space in NYC

1. Your new apartment is the size of the playpen you slept in when you were 6 months old. It’s time to simplify.

Get Storage Space in NYC: for everything you own except  your footie pajamas and stuffed monkey.

2. You just know your acid wash jeans are bound to be cool again but “vintage status” is still probably about 20 years away.

Get Storage Space in NYC: to wait out the decades until you can become the ultimate fashionista again.

3. Your boyfriend is embarrassed by your extravagant beanie baby collection. You know he’ll be sorry when you’re a millionaire someday.

Get Storage Space in NYC: and hold on to both Squealer the Pig and your relationship, at least until you can cash one of them in.

4. You’re having trouble finding warm enough water in the Northeast to keep up with your PADI diving certification classes.

Get Storage Space in NYC: to house your scuba equipment until your mid-winter, Vitamin-D deficiency, emergency vacation to the Caribbean.

5. When your buddies dared you to steal the entrance totem pole at band camp, they forgot to mention the 600 year-curse that would fall upon you if you got rid of it.

Get Storage Space in NYC: to hide your superstitions.

6. The 12-foot paper maché statue of a mountain gorilla recently bequeathed to you by one dearly departed Aunt Shirley is really throwing off the feng shui of your apartment.

Get Storage Space in NYC: until you have an unsuspecting nephew or niece of your own to gift the family heirloom to.

7. Your little brother didn’t believe you when said you were moving to Europe to become a gypsy. Naturally, you need to prove him wrong .

Get Storage Space in NYC: to stand true to your word without selling all your stuff. A person’s gotta have something to return to when all that wandering gets tiresome!

Whatever your reasons, if you’re looking for storage space in NYC, we’re here for you. Call one of our storage advisors at 212-Storage today to get started with an estimate. And let us know your favorite reasons to need storage in our comments below or on our Facebook page

This could be the view from your bike!

It may be getting colder here in New York, but summer’s just getting into gear on the other side of the world — New Zealand’s summer months are December-March, making it the perfect winter Store n’ Split adventure destination! Get your bike out of storage, put the rest of your possessions in, and head to Middle Earth for an epic cycle tour through one of the most gorgeous landscapes you’ll ever see.

Mindblowing New Zealand Cycling Tour Destinations

• Take in the Scenery: Bike down the South Island’s West Coast, said to be one of the top 5 scenic road rides in the world with plenty of twists and turns. Feeling a little tired? Book a tour with a support vehicle to enjoy the ride without feeling like you’re working too hard.

• You know Ewe Want To: New Zealand is famous for having lots of the wooly ones and you’re bound to pass a few sheep farms during your tour. Stop by one in January and you’ll be able to see the ewe-shearing ritual in action.

• When You Deserve a Reward: Plan an extended rest stop at a one of NZ’s wineries – home of what Wine Spectator calls the “New World’s Utopia for Sauvignon Blanc.”

• Lord of the Rings Fan? Don’t fret my precious. Themed bike tours that will take you from Peter Jackson’s Lothlorien all the way to Mt. Doom –hobbit not included!

• Live Dangerously: New Zealand is at the southern tip of the Pacific Rim of Fire, and its North Island boasts several of its own active volcanoes. Make the ride from Auckland to see them all. Take a break to soothe any aching muscles in the neighboring geothermal hot springs.

Secure Temporary Storage Solutions In Manhattan Will Keep Your Stuff Safe While You’re Gone

While you’re trekking the roads of New Zealand like Aragorn-on-wheels, you won’t have to worry about your stuff. Manhattan Mini Storage’s temporary storage solutions will offer you a safe place to stash your furniture and  your clothes while you’re on your epic adventure – for as little as $29 a month. Call 212-STORAGE to get started today!

We’re excited to help the winners clean up their acts!  But first we need to hear from all of you…

1. Go to our Facebook Page to see the top ten videos.
2. Go to the Contest Tab and select Vote Now
3. You can vote once per day for your top four videos between now and April 11^th.

Which means…. that if you are one of the top ten finalists, you should be sharing this information with everyone you know and getting them to vote for your video!

Our grand prize winner will receive:

• one full year of free storage
• free storage supplies
• the help of a personal organizer
• and a free move into your new storage room

Our three runners up will receive:

• 3 months free storage up to ($100/mo?)
• Your video on our Facebook page
• Your photo on our Facebook page

Click here to vote: Manhattan Mini Storage Facebook Page to Vote.

Announcing Storage a la Cart!

It’s easy to move stuff from here to home (or vice versa) with our new storage carts!  They’re yours to use for up to four hours. Just check one out at the front desk and get rolling! 

Storage carts are available at our locations at 28 Second Avenue and 108-110 West 107th Street

It’s never been easier to live clutter free!

Granted we have a few years until 12/20/2012 and the world is, once again, scheduled to come to an end, but are you ready?

According to some panicked sources, it might be time to get prepared!

Here’s Crisis a example: Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival

This survival guide is available on Amazon and according to the product description it is:

A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes. …..An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.

It makes one wonder what kind of survival materials one might have in their local Manhattan Mini Storage unit.

That actually would not be a very bad idea. All the necessary items can be safely stored under lock and key, and then, when Armageddon approaches, all you have to do is get to your mini storage unit and go all Rambo like.

If you are not prepared, then you only choice might be to sing like REM:

We were alerted to this rather nice article on MainStreet.com.
Storage 101: What Are Your Options?  is written by Althea Chang and  covers the basics of Storage and the different rates of self storage facilities around the country.

The article covers the different items and reasons why one might need a self storage unit:

“Renting storage can be a great idea if you your living space is limited and your rooms and closets are are overflowing with stuff.  Seasonal clothes, keepsakes and old toys, which you may not need right away but want to keep, are just the items to put into storage.”

What to consider when looking for a mini-storage facility:

“When choosing a storage facility, before considering climate control, security access and moving, you’ll have to decide what type of facility you want, how big you want it and where.”

We do like that she remembered Manhattan Mini Storage!

“If you’re intent on keeping your things in a small space in the big city, Manhattan Mini Storage, for example, has facilities all up and down the island with spaces ranging in size from four feet by four feet to 25 feet by 40 feet. Prices start at $29 per month, though larger spaces (the largest room being 8,000 square feet) are $1.25 per square foot per month.  The biggest rooms cost about $10,000 per month,  and rent includes phone and Internet access, electrical outlets, lighting and air conditioning.  You may also be able to get a free roundtrip taxi ride for you and your belongings.” 

While we provide the places for you to store all your stuff in, we frequently don’t know what you actually store in your Manhattan Mini Storage Rental Facilities. And like anyone, curiosity killed the cat and all, we wonder…

What do people actually put into self storage?

Anyway, taking this whole social media interaction literally; we adore Flickr. Being part of the New York City landscape for as long as we have, and producing some pretty memorable billboards, people take lots of pictures of us, our adds, and our facilities and also, what they have in there!

We found this public photo stream and wow, it’s impressive even for us, how much room there is to store stuff

The caption on this photo of inside a MMS unit says:

“Dimensions of this room – 5′ by 10′ Contains 46 boxes, 4 pieces of a sectional sofa and a cute wooden airplane.”

Tell us, take a picture and we might find a feature you too!  Or come on over to our Facebook page and post them there!!

We like to keep our eyes and ears open to see what folks are saying about us over at MMS.

One of the most important aspects of customer service and being a successful business is listening… and then doing something about it!

 If there is a problem, we want to fix it.

If there is something that could be improved, we want to know.

And if we are doing things the right way, we want to know that too so we can keep on doing it.. ..plus it’s nice to have a pat on the back every once in a while…

The reviews over at Yelp are a nice place to get that sort of unsolicited information.

And yup, it’s really very nice to see the great things people say about Manhattan Mini Storage!

A thank you goes out to our kind reviewers:

• Austen  P. who gave us 5 stars!
• Lisa F who prefers us too!
• Eric P who is, indeed, now part of the family!

These are the things we like to hear!