Storing in flats

Buy a house with a dungeon/basement like Fiddy

^ Fritzl?

If you have tall walls you can hook em on there.
You can also get pulley systems to winch them onto the ceiling,

You only really need a big hook, you can get them for under a £5 from most hardware/plumbing shops.

and when it gets another scratch I have to go to a quiet place and cry.

Uh?