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I live in a small downtown condo. I don't have room to store a whole lot of extra stuff but I also have hobbies like camping, watersports, etc. I keep all of that stuff in a storage unit and I access it fairly often. Since I have it I also use it to save all the boxes for my electronics (77" OLED is impossible to move safely without original box for example), car maintenance stuff, larger tools I use less frequently, etc. It is about 3 minutes drive 10 minute walk from my house. I definitely do not use it to hoard stuff I will never touch again.

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>77" OLED is impossible to move safely without original box for example)

Exactly same here - well curved super ultrawide. Without the curved box styrofoam it can't move. Though in hindsight it was a bad deal...at ~60 bucks a month I could have replaced the screen...

my 10 year old 75" TV cost me upwards of $70, probably $100, to move across town -- at the cost of the boxes and packing material and labor the movers provided.

When I move again in a few months I think I'll just throw it in the back of my SUV and hope it doesn't break.

Wrap it in a blanket and it'll probably be fine.

In your own car, sure, in a moving van, probably not.

I moved my large tv cross country twice. The movers build a wooden and cardboard crate for it. Very safe.

I used to run a traveling pro sports league and we transported our own scoreboards.

A bunch of foam pool noodles, a blanket and plastic wrapping tape can very quickly and cheaply get you a padded container that is easy to add handles to.

We shipped boards all over the country in the back of semi trucks with this setup and it worked great.

I love to wood/metal work. Tried doing that while living in Manhattan for around 3 years. Workshop in a storage unit in Brooklyn. The whole thing was stupid. Found out that if I have to commute to or share something (gyms, workshops, trails etc.) then I’m not going to end up doing it.

Just ended up moving out of the city, got around 50 acres and now my wife can’t get me out of the workshop and I’ve worked out every morning for the last 4-5 years. Shared facilities just aren’t for me.

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