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Tips For Storing Holiday Decorations In Mini Storage Units
As the holiday season wraps up (pardon the pun), you may find yourself trying to figure out where to put all of those decorations. That’s where storage units come in. Do you really want to tie up an...
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SpareFoot’s Storage Facility Party
Click here to RSVP via Facebook. SpareFoot is proud to host the first SXSW show at a storage facility. We’re not talking about a single unit here – Morningstar Mini-Storage has partnered with us to...
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SpareFoot at the ISS World Expo
Members of the SpareFoot team have taken to Las Vegas for the 2011 Inside Self-Storage World Expo. Britney, Chuck, and Sara, pictured above, are working with storage facilities managers and owners at...
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Pictures From SpareFoot’s SXSW Storage Facility Party
The SpareFoot Storage Facility party was a success. As the Startup Crawl buses dropped people off, the crowd grew and Cartright went on to play an outstanding performance. I guess throwing an event...
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Storing A Boat
The long-term storage of a boat, much like that of a car or motorcycle, can be a time-staking process. Whether you’re storing a fishing boat, sailboat, ski boat or even a yacht, the more work you put...
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Storing A Refrigerator: 4 Steps To Minimize Potential Damage
A refrigerator is one of the most common appliances that people need to put in self-storage. At SpareFoot, our call center gets at least one customer per day who calls about storing a fridge. Luckily,...
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Emergency Food Storage For The Zombie Apocalypse
Emergency food storage is an extremely interesting topic for me for two reasons. First, I kind of consider myself a foodie. I’m no Anthony Bourdain, but I have read enough Yelp reviews to know what...
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Guns In Self-Storage Units: A Tough Shot
Since my last blog post concerned emergency food storage, specifically for zombie-related emergencies, it’s time to discuss the other essential component of surviving a widespread zombie infection:...
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Family Photo Storage: How To Prevent Scratches, Fading, Water Damage
This summer, the central Texas region experienced a serious drought that culminated in extremely destructive wildfires that raged through most of September. Although the fires didn’t reach our office...
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How to Store a Mattress
It’s a common saying (especially in mattress store advertisements) that your mattress is one of your most important assets because you spend about a third of your life there. A mattress may cost you...
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The Ten Commandments of IKEA Furniture: Part 1
This is part one of a two-part series about how to build IKEA and other ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture. Click here for Part 2. When it comes to budget furniture, nobody does it better than IKEA....
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The Ten Commandments of IKEA Furniture: Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two-part series about IKEA and other brands of flat-pack, ready-to-assemble furniture. For commandments 1 through 5, please refer to Part 1. 6. Thou Shalt Employ Only One Assembler...
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SpareFoot’s Guide to Long-Term Bicycle Storage
There are a lot of reasons a bike gets put away for months or years–off-seasons, injuries, spare bikes that go unused. And whether you’re throwing the bike in a shed, garage, storage unit or spare...
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The Best Coffee Shops in Austin
If you ask a completely random Austinite about his or her favorite coffee shop, you’ll probably get a completely random answer. The cup runneth over with literally hundreds of shops in the city that...
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