Too many boxes

Two 10X 25 storage lockers with 15 ft ceilings. Build lofts, and keep ladder in locker. Costs $90 a month for both but at least my house is less cluttered.

Under the basement stairs. I'm not sure why it worked out like that, but the last two houses I used the same storage place.

I just moved into my new apartment in Toronto and the storage space is much smaller than my suburban house in Waterloo... I've had to flatten all of my boxes and stack all the foam parts in one of the closets... The only boxes I kept unflattened were the ones for the expensive and heavy stuff ie Sonus Faber Stand and AA Capitole. When I move again in 7 months I'll have to spend an extra half hour rebuilding the boxes. On another note, I once left a box in a garage at my place in Toronto last year and the mice ended up eating all the foam parts. To avoid this I recommend taping shut all your boxes as they seemed to go straight for the foam in the open boxes... I guess they prefer the tasty foam over the not so tasty cardboard.

I started by putting the smaller boxes (components, power conditioners, etc.) in the speaker boxes. Then put the speaker boxes in the garage. I fabricated shelving units that hang from the ceiling in the garage, and additional boxes have been placed in the dry crawl space (not quite a "root cellar") beneath the house. I lined the raw earth with polyetylene sheeting, and the boxes there actually collect less dust than the boxes in the garage.

I rent a storage space for $28 a month to store them and a bunch of other stuff (junk). For the money I've spent for this I probably could have twice the system I have now. Or maybe more CDs.