Australians pay $163 a month on average to store all the stuff we buy – how can we stop overconsuming?
- Written by: Louise Grimmer, Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
ShutterstockMany of us are drowning in “stuff”. To find space for all our possessions, we are paying off-site storage companies. Australians spend an average of A$163 per month on self-storage, one recent survey found.
The number one item stored in these facilities is furniture. Other items we cannot fit in our houses include appliances...