Store That E14 Talk About The Weird And Wacky World Of Collectables

One of the things that our storage units are best for is storing collections. Sometimes, all you need is a big space to put your prized collectables into. You need somewhere safe and secure, somewhere that means your collection won’t take up the entire home and somewhere where you know that space will never be an issue. Secure self-storage in E14 provides just such a solution. In most cases, the collections that we see are your common-or-garden record collections or antiques of some sort. The world of collectables does get far weirder sometimes, however, and we wanted to show you that, if you can think of it, someone will collect it…

Toilet Paper

No, we’re not just referring here to those who stockpiled mountains of the stuff when lockdown initially hit. We’re talking about people who love nothing more than to seek out all the world’s different patterns, plies and colours of loo roll. In fact, Flo and Rich Newman, a couple from Massachusetts, USA, have dedicated over 30 years to amassing this everyday essential. Although it may seem perhaps strange on the surface, here at Store That we have to confess that you could fit an awful lot more toilet paper in our secure-self storage in E14 than you could other more sizeable collectables! If one thing’s for sure, the world is always going to need those little tissue squares!

Traffic Cones?

 Whilst we may associate traffic cones with both roadworks and drunken student theft in equal measures, we probably don’t think about them as an item to collect. It does make sense, though, when you look at this particular example, because in this case the collector also happens to be the inventor of the traffic cone. David Morgan is a British engineer widely accepted as having invented the humble traffic cone in the way we know it today. He owns over 130 of the pointy bits of plastic, and claims he has an example of over two-thirds of the world’s different cone types. Each to their own, hey!

Miniature Soldier Figurines

 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s a 25,000-piece collection of toy soldiers! For all the budding generals and commanders out there, take a leaf from this guy. Jonathan Waters has spent pretty much his whole life (since the age of 5) collecting toy soldiers. For some perspective on that, he is now in his mid-fifties. That’s half a century of collecting! His collection is wide-ranging and contains figures depicting groups from all over the world, and from all periods of history. From Napoleon’s armies to Robin Hood and everything in between. Here’s to all those big kids who never lose that child-like spirit of fun!

Why Self-Storage Makes Sense For A Collection

Why is it that self-storage is such an attractive idea for collectors all over the world? Well, for a start not everybody has the domestic space to house display cabinets or rooms entirely dedicated to what is, in essence, a professional hobby. Even if you do have the space, if you have a family living with you, they may not be too happy to give up so much space for your own collection. A storage unit, whether that be an internal unit or sea-container storage, provides you with the space for your collecting, without taking up that room in the house, keeping you happy and appeasing your family – truly the best of both worlds! What else? For a collector, the prospect of their collections being stolen is a heart-wrenching one. In most cases, it isn’t so much the financial value as it is the sentimental value that these collections hold. These collections have so much emotion and so many stories tied to them that to lose them doesn’t bear thinking about. With a storage unit, you can sleep easy at night knowing that your collection’s never going to go wandering off…

So, if you’d like to find out more about our secure self-storage in E14, then get in touch! Contact Store That E14 today on 020 7515 1300.