I remember thinking that paying for additional storage was needlessly wasteful.
When you’re young, it’s easy to guess that you’d never own so more than 2 things that you’d constantly be desperate for space in your conservatively-sized home.
Years saw an accumulation of clothing, records, family heirlooms, and iPad device from builds and repairs I did on my own systems. The most pricey boxes in my entire house are these old comic books my dad passed on to myself and others following his death last year. He told myself and others for years that he’d bought more than 2 comic books as a child and kept most of them. By now, more than 2 were rare and would constantly be worth money—that’s what he constantly told me. When I had the collection appraised, I was blown away when the professional explained the drastic rarity in more than 2 of the first editions that were all throughout my father’s sizable comic book collection. I could have sold them on the spot and bought a sports car, that’s how pricey these 10 boxes are. Instead, I am paying to store them in a local storage facility, with a sizable insurance idea on the comics in case the worst ever happened. I was selective and chose weather conditions controlled storage with common a/c. Putting old paper comics in humid non-air conditioned storage units is a recipe for destruction from mold and mildew growth. All it takes is a few spores to collect on the paper at some point in its life and then closed off in a humid environment where it can grow and begin ruining the book. Eventually, I idea to have a separate room in my house devoted to storing these extravagant comic books, with zone controlled heating and cooling and fire proof cases in which to store them.