>Storage units weren't even a thing 75 years ago. Now they're ubiquitous.
Not sure how prevalent it is in other countries especially the first world, but self-storage facilities in the US surprise me (I am an Indian). Given the average house size in USA which is second highest after Australia, I wonder what kind of useful stuff gets stored in these stores.
People actually forget that they are even paying for these storage lockers, so often in fact that there is a cottage industry surrounding bidding on forgotten lockers. [0]
Not sure how prevalent it is in other countries especially the first world, but self-storage facilities in the US surprise me (I am an Indian). Given the average house size in USA which is second highest after Australia, I wonder what kind of useful stuff gets stored in these stores.