A Storage Shed Saved the Day
This is a Guest Post by Michael
Let me tell you a story about how I used a storage shed to the best of its abilities one weekend. It all started when my wife and I had to vacate our apartment because we were getting the bathtub re-enameled. The smell from the fumes was going to be too strong for us to stay there. So, we had set things up with a friend of ours so that we could stay at their house. Well, it turned out that they forgot about the arrangement and left town. So, the night we were supposed to be out of our apartment, we had nowhere to go.
That same weekend there was a big convention going on in our town. It was a citywide event that brought many people. Every hotel had been booked for weeks. So, there was really nowhere for us to go. We started thinking about our options. The best one on our list was to just sleep in our car. That scared me. I didn’t want to sleep in a car where anyone could see that we were inside of it. Also, it would be very uncomfortable.
We also thought about just hanging out for the whole night. Then, we realized that we couldn’t think of things to do to last the entire night. So, we went back to the drawing board. We then realized that we might just have another option. We had installed a couple of sheds outside of our apartment earlier that month. We were going to use them to store some old things that were taking up too much space. We decided that we might just be able to sleep inside one of our sheds that night.
We opened up the unit and there was a lot of space inside. There was more than enough room for us to sleep. So, we decided to go ahead and try it out. We put down our blankets and stuff and found it to be pretty comfortable. Still, at first we were a little worried that someone may have seen us climbing into the shed. As the night went on we were pretty sure that we were in the clear. We felt very clever for our discovery.
I’m not saying that it turned out to be the best night of sleep I have ever had. Instead, it was a lousy night of sleep, but we were able to spend that night somewhere that we were comfortable being. The next night we were back inside of our apartment again. Since then we have always remembered that having an extra shed can be a great benefit. We haven’t slept in it since then, but whenever we have company over we always tell them that they can sleep in our storage shed because we’ve done it before. They always get a kick out of that.
So, the next time you don’t have a place to sleep, just remember that you might have something set up outside that could serve the purpose if only for one night.