Whether you live in San Marcos, Oceanside, or right here in Vista we have plenty of room to store your household goods. Our smallest units are perfect for mini storage if you live in an apartment and need just a bit more space or have seasonal goods cluttering up your life year round.

If you live in a house your garage is probably filled to the brim with large irregularly used tools, extra furniture, or family heirlooms you can’t quite give away. Our larger units are perfect for general storage. Get that vehicle out of the sun and into your garage with a little help from Taylor Self Storage.

Many self starting entrepreneurs have embraced internet marketing to kickstart a business but running it out of your garage can be a major headache. Your nearby self storage can be the perfect place to organize your stock and keep it out of your home life.

• Customer orders can be more easily organized without home goods hiding leftover items or even accidentally ending up in an order
• Keep your items organized in discrete stacks
• A secure self storage facility will keep your investment in your stock safe
• Keep your business out of sight and out of mind after business hours. We all need breaks and separating home and your new business can be a real stress reliever.
• Remove any temptations for little ones or pets to cause havoc with your leftover stock

While self storage is an easy and convenient way to store your extra belongings, a few tips can make it even easier.

• Organize early! It can be daunting to try to organize a full storage unit so it is never too early to have a plan for how items should be stored in your unit. Labeling your boxes is essential, but having your boxes and other items organized into groups (seasonal clothing, holiday items, car parts, etc) within the unit can make finding things that much simpler.
• Avoid boxes that are too big. A large box may make it easy to pack a lot of goods away, but when it comes time to move the box your back won’t thank you. Later when your box is stored in your unit it will also make it harder to retrieve single items from your boxes.
• Don’t store unsealed food. It might be tempting to store that leftover giant package of food from a warehouse grocer, but it’s a pest magnet you don’t want in your unit. Its also easy to forget about it until you discover a stinky mess.
• Watch out for fragile items. Make sure your boxes contain fragile items are properly marked and don’t have other boxes stacked on them. Over-sized, unmarked fragile items should best be stored in their own corner of the unit. If you are accessing your unit in a hurry it can be easy to roughly handle a box. Make sure a quick glance tells you if it needs special handling.
• Renting too small of a unit. Sometimes it can seem even the smallest unit will be plenty of space, but consider carefully exactly how much you will be storing. The minimal cost difference of a large unit may not be worth the headache of accessing a unit packed to the ceiling.

Sometimes storage can be more than just a convenient place to store your treasured valuables.

1. Organize your house! When your house is overrun with clutter it can be difficult to finally get everything organized. Store your extra items to give yourself the room you need to organize your house.
2. Streamline your wardrobe! Picking an outfit in the morning is more difficult when you have to dig through clothes out of season. Store your winter/summer clothes and simplify your closets.
3. Park your cars in the garage!  Clear out all the items you are currently storing in your garage and you can keep your cars out of any weather. Create a work space for those weekend warrior projects.
4. Ease life’s difficult transitions. Sometimes moving, going to college, divorce, military deployment, or another big life event can be made complicated by having to handle all your accumulated items. Safely store them and clear your mind of any worries about them until you are ready to unpack them.
5. Indulge your interest in collectibles. You might be driving your significant other to distraction by your collectibles cluttering up a spare bedroom or the garage. Keep them organized and out from under foot in a storage space.

When you’ve run out of room to store things in your kitchen with a few tips you can safely store dishes here at Taylor Self Storage. Whether its fine china, a favored heirloom, or a collectible plate you can easily store them with a bit of smart preparation.

• 95% of all damaged goods in self storage come from poor packing.Old newspaper is a cheap and effective method to keeping your dishes intact.
• Wrap your dishes before storing them. By creating a barrier for each object you’ve safeguarding it from other items scraping up against it.
• Just two or three sheets of crinkled newspaper can protect most dishes inside a box. Using more than one is advised since wrapped objects could rub through a single layer of newspaper.
• Crinkling the paper is important and will help it better absorb movement while packed.
• Put dishes in their own box.
• Make sure your box is marked. You don’t want to accidentally roughly handle a box of dishes when retrieving them in the future.
• Reinforcing your boxes may be a good idea. A box full of dishes can be quite heavy so some extra tape at the bottom edges could stop an unfortunate spill.
• Place padding on the very bottom of the box to absorb the impact of putting the box down.
• Nesting smaller items in larger ones can stabilize their movement but make sure the interior item is completely wrapped.
• Fill the empty space with anything soft to keep your dishes securely positioned within the box.