Here are ten tell-tale signs…
1. Furniture is tight or forever on the move
If every new piece of furniture you’re buying has to be crow-barred in, or you’re forever moving it around, then it could be time to get on the blower to the estate agent. Likewise, when your cupboards are almost belching they’re so full, and your bloated wardrobes are not much better. And if that spare room is as unhospitable as an angry North Sea, then it’s another signal that the staying put ship has sailed.
2. Your house has become a great big storage unit
When parts of Antarctica have been more recently explored than your loft, when the garage is crying, and under-the-stairs is under stress, you’re not a hoarder or messy, necesarily, but you are seriously undersized. If you were a plant, you’d need to be repotted. Your home should be a home. Leave the storage to us.
3. Your household has changed forever – or it’s about to
New baby, partner, or older kids demanding their own room? Or is it an elderly parent or other elderly relative who’s moving in, and no matter how much you tell yourself it’s all going to be alright, you know it’s going to be a tight squeeze? What worked for you as a household when we were all doing Gangnam Style might be a little outdated or impractical nowadays.
4. You’re working from every inch of your home
Kitchen table, sofa, or propped up in bed, and then repeat. If this is your so-called home office routine, then working from home has likely shifted from a novelty to normal, a sure sign that you’re seriously ill-equipped where you are. We all need a proper separation between work and home, and the best way to do it, other than a new job where you’re office-bound, is to think about upping sticks.
5. The commute makes you want to get on yer bike
Time was, there was perhaps even a sliver of pleasure in your commute to work. Drinking in the view. People watching. Reading a book or the paper, or perhaps it was a drive that had its good points. But if it’s the most unbearable part of the day, and you’re stuck in traffic all the time, then what’s the point? You don’t need us to tell you that time and quality of life are precious.
6. You don’t love the area anymore
Decay is part of life, and you notice it increasingly more as time goes by, including the area you once loved. It might be that its energy has totally changed, and you’re now looking for more than it can offer. Or maybe you’re just so completely and utterly bored to tears with it. Time to move on signals aplenty! You have our pity if it’s neighbours from hell that are making you think about moving on as you lay awake at night. Other people’s noise shouldn’t interrupt your life.
7. DIY at weekends and not much else is your world
If you’re living in a perpetual state of making do and mend, with leaky taps, damp, and a moody, unpredictable boiler, your home starts feeling like a second job rather than somewhere you can relax. Somewhere new, where it’s all brand new or in full working order, might’ve been calling a while.
8. The great outdoors is calling
A garden for the kids or the dog, or just somewhere to sit with a cup of tea or wine, under your own little piece of sky. Yes, an outdoor space, or lack of it, is often a key driver for those who are ready to move. We all need fresh air in our lives.
9. Your finances say go
Sometimes, it’s as simple as you being financially ready, too, of course, because your income has improved, or you have met someone, and with your joint income, you’re ready to move up the property ladder.
10. You spend loads of time on property sites
If you’re never off property sites before bed or on that dreary commute and keep telling yourself you’re just nosy, merely keeping an eye on who’s moving, etc., think again. This could be the biggest sign of all that it’s time to contact Dumfries Self Storage. Always looking for an excuse not to decorate and coveting what others have done with their homes – that’s a dead giveaway too!