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However, they're good for many more purposes. Some more colorful and less traditional uses to which you might put portable storage units are: * Home storage. Rather than wasting hours of your time waiting at the U Haul office to rent a van, loading it up fast so you don't waste rental time, driving to the storage facility, unloading it fast, and racing to get the van back before you go over time and have to pay extra, make the storage facility bring the storage cell to you. Portable storage units can sit in front of your house for a few days while you fill them at your leisure, then the company takes them away without any further effort from you. A phone call brings them back, and you can empty them without any hurry.