Abstract: A system and method is given for storing by a service provider in a remote storage facility a portable closet containing one or more personal or business items of a customer. In one embodiment, the service provider delivers a customer configurable empty portable closet to the customer's premises. The portable closet is made to be wheeled through a standard sized apartment door. The customer packs the closet with one or more items. The service provider then picks up the partially or completely full portable closet and stores the portable closet in a remote storage facility. Upon customer request the portable closet is returned to the customer by the service provider. The contents of the portable closet are then modified by the customer and the closet then picked up and returned to storage by the service provider. The process of return to the customer, pick-up, and re-storage may be repeated to provide a virtual closet to the customer.

Abstract: The invention provides a movable storage container configured to fit through standard residential doors. In a preferred embodiment, a movable storage container having features of the invention is about 6 feet high, between about 3 foot and about 4 foot wide, and between about 26 inches and about 28 inches deep, and is preferably cedar-lined. A movable storage container having features of the invention may have external attachment features configured to engage with ropes, straps, cables, or other tractor elements, and may include an internal bar configured to engage clothes hangers, preferably by having perforations sized to receive a hanger hook so as to prevent their lateral movement along the bar. The external attachment features are preferably disposed on the base of the container. The invention further provides systems including a movable storage container and a tractor element, and optionally including instructions.