Make the Spring Cleaning Process Easier This Year: Rent a Storage Unit

With the welcoming of the spring season comes the annual spring cleaning project. Spring cleaning is a tradition that allows us to freshen up our homes, organize and make room for items, and get a head start on the spring and summer months. And after a hard, dreary winter, you may find that your home is certainly in need for a spring spruce-up.

Now is the opportune time to take a look around your home and determine what items you can clear out to add some extra living space. While there are items you may decide to sell or get rid of, what about the items that you want to keep but don't have space for? A storage unit is the perfect solution.

At Extra Attic, we make renting a storage unit simple and affordable. You can rent a self-storage unit in Richmond, VA conveniently online or call us at (804) 222-8072. You can choose the number of months you will rent the unit, and we offer different storage unit sizes to fit your needs.  

You should consider self-storage for: - Keeping seasonal and holiday items that don't fit in your home. For example, any skiing or snowboarding clothing and equipment and large Christmas decorations you can keep in a storage unit. 

- Items that you no longer use but still want to hold onto. These include items like antiques and children's furniture. If you've been accumulating items for months now and feel that it's time to sort through these belongings and utilize a storage unit, below are basic organization steps to help you in the process.  

Have plenty of boxes and bubble wrap Whether you use cardboard boxes, crate, suitcases or luggage, use these to place your belongings. For any fragile items and ceramics, make sure that you properly wrap them with bubble wrap to keep them protected.  

Properly fold and pack items To maximize the space in the boxes and containers, make sure to carefully fold and stack the items inside.  

Label every box Be sure that you label what's inside. Any sealed boxes, suitcases or luggage should be clearly labeled so that you know what is inside of them when you want to take them out of the storage unit later. For example, if one box is your winter clothes label it with your name and "winter clothes."  

Keep items together when packing Stay organized by keeping items together when packing them and not just placing random items together in the same box.  

Safeguard valued items Many use storage units for filing away important documents such as tax records and bank statements, as well as highly valuable possessions such as jewelry and antiques. Make sure to properly secure these since they are valuable items.

Arena Racing in Richmond

            Each year, Richmond has a 15 event car racing season! The racing began full time in 2011 at the Richmond Coliseum. The season runs from late Fall to Spring. Ricky Dennis is the founder with Joe Gibbs as one of the investors. Talk about a fun evening with the family- watching these little cars lap the high banked track at The Coliseum in less than 8 seconds.  

            

            Arena Racing is affordable entertainment for the entire family. Even if you are not a race fan you will very likely have a fun time. The cars are half scale stock cars that race around a hockey rink sized track at speeds of over 50 miles per hour. The same bumping, crashing, occasional flipping, and 3 wide racing occurs just like in the NASCAR series. That sounds fun enough, but between races there are also T- shirt giveaways, contests, music and great prizes.

            Racing is scheduled for various Friday and Saturday nights. Mark your calendar to meet and greet the drivers, get free posters and autographs from them and then root on your favorite drivers. Tickets range from $8 (kids 15-under) to $16 for the best seats in the house. Not bad for a night of family entertainment. A variety of group plans are also available so pull together your work, church or neighbors.

If you are a huge racing fan, there are several ways you may want to get involved. They are always looking for new car owners and racers. Now that sounds really cool! They say that race fans are the most sponsor friendly fans, so think about sponsoring a car with your business logo. Lastly, volunteers are welcome. Wouldn't it be neat to be a race official? What a great way to get even closer to the drivers and the racing. 

Some of us at Extra Attic are already planning an outing to see the Arena Cars for ourselves! Check out their web site http://www.arenaracingusa.com, get your family and friends together and make plans to check out Arena Racing in Richmond!