re: Self storage - an American phenomenon

My wife's grandfather had one that was $250 a month. He died in 2005 and my in-laws have kept paying it. Nearly $60,000 to store a dead man's junk.

And it is junk. We went through it right after he died. Anything of value (and I use that term loosely) was taken out. Everything left was worthless but they have kept paying for it.