A big storage unit near us burnt down overnight. Awaiting confirmation but we had an email to assume everything destroyed, if not by the fire by smoke and/or water.
It was my idea to put stuff in storage just two weeks ago as we are hopefully moving house soon. So I feel guilty. Husband feels guilty because he didn’t upgrade the insurance to cover everything. Neither of us are blaming the other for now.
So not our day to day stuff but virtually all photos, Books, certificates, wedding dress,
DVDs were there along with my husband’s extensive selection of tools. Garden furniture. Some of the kids stuff but luckily not that much- can’t face telling them yet.
I think the room size was 75 square feet and it was packed to the rafters, took more stuff there just two days ago.
Insurance should cover to a degree but obviously not at all with regard to sentimental stuff.
I feel I need to process it properly but just can’t because every time I realise something else was there I feel sick.
My husband is a bit more pragmatic that me. He’s gutted too but his view is a lot of people in Ukraine etc have lost or stand to lose much more than this. It’s just stuff at the end of the day.
Which is of course true. We’ve had health scares recently and fortunately are fine. We are lucky in many many ways. But I am so upset right now.
Anyone else had a similar situation and got over it?
Funnily (?) enough although we still want to buy the house we’re buying an important factor was that it had to have space
for all the stuff we had. We don’t need that any more.