In a bid to persuade the credit crunched to see their storage facilities as a wise investment, The Big Yellow Self Storage Company has done some interesting if unscientific data analysis. Apparently, more than a third of us have a junk room... a room filled with stuff we probably should have thrown away. My theory is that you can spot that room on visiting somebody within minutes. It's the room with the door closed. Big Yellow combines this statistic with the finding that 31% of us would - if we could - rent out a room to make a bit of extra cash, subtracts the cost of storage from the income earned by renting out the junk room and extrapolates Brits could bring in an extra £38bn a year by moving the crap out and a lodger in.

Your lodger may vary, rental income may go down as well as up, safe if taken as directed, if symptoms persist...

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