Blog
Orders climbing steadily but nowhere left to pack them? There is a moment most online sellers recognise. The orders are coming in steadily, which is the good news. The bad news is that there are parcels on the kitchen table, bubble wrap wedged behind the sofa, and no clear floor to pack on. The spare […]
Everything you earn a living with, parked on a dark street all night? Most tradespeople reach the same point eventually. The job wraps up, the van is packed, and somewhere on the drive home the thought surfaces: everything I need to earn a living is sitting in a box on wheels, on a street I […]
Season’s over — has your house quietly become a prop store? There is a particular kind of quiet that settles the morning after the last autumn wedding. The van is finally empty. The marquee is rolled and bagged, the arch frames are untangled, the dressed props are back in their crates, and the linen is […]
When the filing room becomes an obstacle, where should the boxes go? There comes a point in most offices when the filing room stops being a filing room and starts being an obstacle. Boxes stacked against the wall, shelves bowing under ring binders, the spare chair permanently buried under last decade’s conveyancing files. It is […]
Landing in Reading before the new place is quite ready for you? Most people get the big things right when they move. They book the removal van. They notify the utilities. They change the address. What catches them out is the gap, the few weeks where you have left the old place but the new […]
Moving to Lincoln with an awkward gap between the two dates? Nobody warns you about the gap. You have a completion date on the old place and a move-in date on the new one, and somewhere between the two there is a window where your belongings have to be somewhere, but the somewhere is not […]
Moving to Bath and after the honest version, not the brochure? By Selina Burns, Customer Service Lead, Wigwam Self Storage Bath. Selina has lived in Bath for eight years. She runs Wigwam Self Storage Bath and has helped over 1,200 Bath movers settle their things since 2022. Last reviewed: June 2026 · 12 min read […]
Moving with children and no time to sort what goes where? It is the week before completion. Three rooms are still unpacked. One child thinks the move means leaving the cat behind; another is upset because you put their Lego in a box labelled “misc.” The removal firm is booked for eight o’clock Thursday morning, […]
Can you really run a UK storage unit from the other side of the world? You have a storage unit back home in the UK. You are about to get on a plane, or you already have. Somewhere between the packing and the paperwork, a quiet anxiety set in: what happens to all of it […]
Customer Reviews

