Keeping My Team's Paintball Gear

For my friends and I, team paintballing is what we do most of the time when we aren't working. We actually have a practice field outside of town, and we spend tons of time – and probably, in the opinions of some people, way too much money – on paintballing. What can I say? It's really just fun and addicting! Between all of us, though, we have quite a bit of paintball gear, and it's hard to find a place for everything in our own homes. Because of this, we rely on an El Cajon Self Storage location called US Storage Centers to help us keep our paintball gear where it's accessible without being in the way in our own homes.

We came across the idea of the El Cajon Self Storage unit from another paintball team from a nearby town. Because they were all having trouble finding space for their paintball gear – both individual and shared – in their apartments and homes, they decided to go in together to store their gear in a storage unit. The idea was really appealing because we were just then starting to get serious about playing weekend-long scenario games, which required even more gear like camping stuff, cooking stuff, and coolers – besides all our regular camo outfits, paintball guns, masks, and paintballs.

So, we started looking for storage close to home, and we found US Storage Centers El Cajon Self Storage location. The El Cajon Self Storage location was ideal for us for a few reasons. For one thing, it was centrally located to most of our homes, which made it easy to get into the storage unit whenever we needed to. After all, some of us still practice or play paintball even when we aren't doing things as a team, so it was important that we all have equal, easy access to the shared storage unit.

Access was another important part of our decision in favor of the El Cajon Self Storage unit. The gate hours left us plenty of time to get into our storage unit whenever we needed to. Plus, we could easily all share the storage unit's code, which meant we could easily get into the unit individually whenever we needed to. Plus, we could put whatever type of lock we wanted to on the unit; we decided to use a combination lock. That way, we could each have the combination, and no one would have to worry about not having a key when he needed to get into the paintball gear in the storage unit.

Another thing that we looked for in our El Cajon Self Storage unit was security. We had invested a lot of time into our paintball gear, and we didn't want to have to worry about it getting broken into and stolen because of lack of tight security at our storage center. The El Cajon Self Storage unit has cameras all around, and the manager lives on site; both of those things, the manager explained, basically deter potential thieves from even trying to mess with the units. Besides that, though, the units are individually alarmed; if you open a unit without first punching in that unit's unique code at the gate, then the alarm will go off. We felt pretty good about leaving our paintball gear in the water-tight unit that had really great security.

Of course, price was another thing to consider when we were choosing our El Cajon Self Storage unit for our paintball gear. It was easy to call around to different El Cajon Self Storage locations to see who had decent prices, and the US Storage Centers El Cajon Self Storage location had some great prices and good specials. They had a variety of unit sizes to choose from, too, so it was easy to get exactly what we needed space-wise. With US Storage Centers El Cajon Self Storage, we can afford to have a mid-sized unit that lets us keep all our paintball gear organized and separated by who it belongs to without having to stack things too tightly to have access to everything in the unit.

As soon as we started using our El Cajon Self Storage unit, we wondered why we hadn't done it sooner! It was so easy to rent the unit, put our stuff in it, and keep our homes clear of all the excess paintball gear. Plus, it made it easy to borrow gear from one another when one guy was playing paintball on a weekend when the others weren’t, and it also made it easier for us to load up all the gear we had at once when we were heading out to a long scenario game. Storing our team's paintball gear in our El Cajon Storage unit has been a great option for us!