My CD Journey (Part 7) - Storage Woes [Secret Lair Project]

Finally got time to work on this post after so long. I thought of ending off my CD Journey with only 6 parts. Ended up, my previous posting was getting a bit long, so I decided to split it up. As I am typing this post, more and more ideas gathered and I might have to extend to a Part 8 or 9, not sure about that. In case anyone wonder if these are just made up stories. The answer is NO. These are my life stories and they are as true as it gets. I might have gotten some details or timeline slightly wrong or omit a bit of details here and there to protect my privacy as I prefer to stay as a closet CD, but these are true accounts of my life. The experience shared in my latest posts are more recent happenings, that is why I tend to share more details. The situation is ever changing, we never know what to expect... Anyway, back to my CD journey story...  

In my last post, I talked about the rebirth of Francesca after my purge and how I managed to CD after my marriage. At that point in time, when I was crossdressing, I simply donned on those feminine garments and took some photos and admiring myself. However, all my photos are without my head portion even though in some instances I did put on a wig, in some cases, I was wearing a scarf to cover my face. The reason was quite simple (besides the point that I wish to remain as a closet CD), it was because I did not put on any makeup. I got zero knowledge about putting on cosmetics but I do love those scenes when a woman put on her lipstick. I would say that is one of the most feminine moment of a lady.

During this stage of my CD journey, I had to find pockets of time either when my wife was having a night's out with her friends or staying over at her parents place then I could dress up. Hence, I did not have time to don on makeup and dress up at the same time as it will take time to put on the cosmetics and then clean it off later. Even when my wife went for her stayover, where I had ample time to makeup and dress up, I still did not venture into the realm of powdering up due to a few reasons. Firstly, having no knowledge about dolling up one's face is quite daunting for me to get started. Secondly, it is easier for me to store feminine clothing than cosmetics as I can simply claimed that the garments belonged to my ex-gfs and I forgot to dispose them away if anyone ever ask. But for cosmetics, it might look kind of strange... Anyway, more of my cosmetics journey in my next post.

I continued to find small pockets of time to dress up until almost the end of last year, my wife got a new job and was getting much busier. So she stopped having stayovers at her parents' place and had fewer meetups with her friends... On top of that, I desired to expand to my CD collection but was met with a space constraint issue as all those places where I could stash my CD stuff secretly were getting filled at an alarming rate. Time for me to think of a solution...

Just then, the idea of getting a storage locker came to mind. Well, I keep a lot of stuff in my house as I collect things like books, bicycle, electronics equipment, sound systems and etc. I am pretty much a collector and hoarder, so my house was good enough for me alone. However, after getting married, the house has to cater for the stuffs of two adults and coupled with my "cannot be told" hobby, I really needed more space. A quick and fast solution was to get a storage locker. Initially, I thought that all the storage space offered was just a locker size that can barely fit a human. It was only after some research, I realised that some of the storage space can be as big as a small bedroom. This gave me an idea for my "secret lair" project. The idea for a secret lair was also hatched after seeing most the CDs on my FB account had their own space to dress up. Hence, I did my investigation and decided to settle for a 25 square feet storage locker with a height of around 2.7m high, and develop it as my secret hideout to crossdress.  

After I gotten the access to my storage space, I went on a shopping spree for furniture and such to make the storage bay a conducive space for me to CD. I went to IKEA and Giant to get a foldable chair, some wooden flooring decks, some hangers and a clothes rack to set up the area. After getting ready the necessary stuff, I went on to get two big luggage, which came with a free cabinet size luggage each. I waited for the chance when I managed to leave my work early and my wife was working late, then I rushed back to load all my CD stash into the four pieces of luggage and transported it to my secret hideout. You can see my simple setup for my CD lair below.  

Now with a space to keep my CD items and for me to dress up in peace, I began my shopping splurge across the various shopping apps such as TaoBao and AliExpress... In fact, having a proper storage space without the fear of been discovered by my wife, I started to venture into breast forms in hope to make me more feminine during dress up. I will talk about breast form in another post some other time. I gotten a lot more items such as military uniforms and Chun Li costume, hosiery and lingerie as you can be seen from the boxes in the photos above.

While it is good to have a proper storage space and a potential hideout for me to dress up, the downside of my storage hub was that there is no air con in the facility and I need to figure out how to "lock" myself inside the room in order to have some privacy while dressing up, it was not easy. You see, storage locker is to be locked from outside, there is no way of locking from inside and the doors can swing open easily when it was not bolted from the outside. Hence, you can see the conundrum here. However, after much testing and trying, I finally figure out a way to close the locked doors from the inside and get myself locked in my storage locker in order to enjoy some peace and quiet while dressing up, without the fear of been discovered. While that only took care of one problem, it still can be quite warm to dress up in my locker as the facility only has fans installed in certain areas and there is no power source inside the cubicle, so getting an electrical fan is out of the question. On top of that, the fans and lights are triggered by motion sensors. So, if there is no movement detected after a certain amount of time, the electricity will be cut off and the space can be quite dark and stuffy... 

My initial plan for my secret lair was quite magnificent and practical. I was planning to get one of those USB powered mini air cooling unit, USB LED light and some power bank, so that it can provide light and cool me down as I dressed up. I was even planning to get a mini foldable table and a mirror as I was planning to try on rouging...