We have way too much of it. A majority of the people I know have two car garages and it is rare that any one uses them to park even one car inside. Those are really 20′ x 20′ storage sheds connected to the house. They are a place to keep toys, old exercise equipment, boxes full of old books, the lawnmower, whatever, just not cars. Once your garage is too full to even walk through you can drive, usually, less than 2 miles and for a small monthly fee, rent another 10′ x 20′ space to put the overflow. What is so amazing is that these places are hives of storage rooms, hundreds per location. Man we have too much stuff.
While watching TV this weekend I saw an ad for the latest in American storage solutions, PODS. now you don’t have to drive two miles to the hive, these people bring a cell of the honeycomb to you!
And apparently we like to bring our stuff with us when we travel too. At least 20% of the SUV’s I saw on I-26 this morning had those auxiliary storage boxes mounted on the roof. A minivan with 2 kids and there isn’t enough room to carry it all inside?!? The most wondrous one I saw was a Chevy Suburban with 2 people in it, they had a big old cargo box on the top. Looked like it was 2′ x 3′ x 5′. That’s 30 cu ft of storage. On top of the already cavernous capacity of 138 cu. ft. the Suburban already possesses inside. For reference the Mazda Miata I drive has a trunk storage capacity of 3.6 cu. ft. (and Donna and I have taken 2 week vacations using this car.)