Use case · 5 min
Studying in another city, going on exchange, or switching flatshares mid-year? There's a window where your stuff has no home. Self storage covers exactly that gap — without you hauling everything back to family.
Student life involves more moving than it seems: starting uni in another city, switching flatshares, going on a semester abroad, coming back for the holidays. Each transition creates the same problem: what to do with furniture and boxes in between?
The obvious solutions are bad. Hauling everything back to your parents' (in another city) costs freight and space there. Selling and rebuying every semester is wasteful. Asking a friend to store it ends in friction. Self storage solves it without any of those costs.
6-12 month exchange: you go abroad and won't carry the flatshare's furniture. Storing locally is far cheaper than dismantling everything and redoing it on return.
Switching flatshare/city: the old lease ends before the new one starts. A box for 1-2 months covers the gap.
Long holidays between semesters: you free up the room but return in 2 months. No sense transporting everything far and back.
Usually little. A typical flatshare room's belongings — mattress, desk, chair, a few boxes of books/clothes, maybe a mini-fridge — fit in a 2 to 4m³ box. Costs little per month and makes the problem vanish.
Not sure? The space calculator estimates in 2 minutes. And if you'll store for just a few months, check the Keep or Let Go tool to see whether selling that old mini-fridge beats storing it.
Much of the student demand concentrates in hubs. We already list operators in São Paulo · Vila Mariana (UNIFESP), Curitiba (UFPR/PUCPR), Belo Horizonte (UFMG/PUC) and other large cities — all with real operators and flexible monthly contracts, ideal for the academic calendar.
A monthly contract with no guarantor is what you want — in and out with the semester, no penalty. Pack books in small boxes (weight), protect the mattress with a cover, and use vacuum bags for bedding and winter clothes. Supplies at /en/packing-supplies/.
Not sure which operator is near your campus? Ask our concierge with the city and how long you'll be away — we'll return good-price, flexible-contract options.