Since self-storage units first opened in Britain 12 years ago, many people are using them more as a spare room and not just for storage.
The cheap units, costing about $125 a month, not only serve as extra storage space, but some warehouse managers say they spotted desperate couples using some units to conduct illicit affairs, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
A soccer team uses one of the units as its gym, a lawyer rents his self-storage unit to practice the flute during his lunch hour and one man likes to spend time alone with the ashes of his dead mother in another unit.
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