My aunt recently moved to an assisted living facility.
However, before the big move, I helped her clean out her apartment before she put it up for sale! She had lived in the same apartment for 5 decades so besides the memories, she accumulated a lot of stuff during that time! My aunt is especially bad at getting rid of outdated furniture that she doesn’t use anymore.
She told me that she would need extra help with the garage, so I went in there first, then I couldn’t help but gasp at what I saw! If you needed a piece of furniture, you could have found it in my aunt’s garage. She had sofas, loveseats, root beer tables, dining tables, magazine racks, footstools, study room furniture. Whatever furniture you imagined was here! But, upon examining a couch (that I recognized from a 30-year-old photo on my aunt’s mantel), I noticed that it was starting to grow mold… Yuck! Clearly, it was just too hot & humid in the garage (which didn’t have an air conditioning unit). I raced back into the house, & asked my aunt if she planned on keeping the furniture once she moved out. She said that I had first dibs on anything that I wanted, but that she wanted the rest sold. I decided to transport the furniture to an air-conditioned storage unit until every piece sold, but moving the furniture was arduous. All I knew was that the furniture couldn’t stay in the humid, hot garage. The furniture would have become unusable. I toured an indoor storage facility near my aunt’s house, & I was satisfied to believe the cool, dry air inside the building. I asked the manager what would happen to the air conditioning system if the power went out, & she told me that they have a backup generator to keep the cooling system up & running. This cooled indoor storage facility was a perfect temporary apartment for my aunt’s furniture!