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gadders on March 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B ind...

A neighbour of mine has a spare piece of waste land in an industrial area on the edge of a nearby town. He has opened a storage facility using shipping containers. They come over to the UK from China and are not worth shipping back empty, so you can buy them cheaply and then just supply a padlock to clients.

UncleEntity on March 29, 2018 [–]

They put up some shipping container apartments a few blocks from me: http://www.theoscarphx.com/

A/C bill has to be insane...

lallysingh on March 29, 2018 | [–]

I think they put insulation behind the drywall.

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