When we pass away, we leave our lives behind us: services we’ve done for others, friendships forged, and years full of memories with the people we love. Unfortunately, we also leave the tangible reminders of these experiences, and it’s the people we love most who must sort through years of memorabilia, outdated appliances, and broken heirloom furniture. Daughters and sons, spouses, and dear friends must stifle their grief to sort through storage facilities, boxes in the attic, and junk around the house. Hoarding useless stuff doesn’t just limit our home spaces and accumulate dust and mildew, it also provides painful reminders to those we love after we’re gone.

The Hardest Haul

People tend to think life goes on indefinitely. They accumulate years worth of junk and never consider that, when they pass away, their grieving loved ones must sort, organize, and haul away their accumulated stuff. Mr Junk frequently has customers who travel long distances to help elderly parents clean out homes after the death of a beloved spouse. Other family members carry the burden alone, sorting through years of shared memories mixed with clunky, useless stuff. The loved ones left behind must organize and prioritize during an already difficult time before they can move forward and say goodbye.

Home Storage Clean Out

If you have cluttered closets and cramped crawl spaces, don’t wait to clean it out until its too late. Ask your kids, spouse, and close friends to help you clean out your home storage. By sorting furniture, heirlooms, and souvenirs together, you make the cleaning process more efficient and less painful in the future.

• Enlisting friends and family to help clean out your home storage makes the process more enjoyable and efficient.
• Cleaning out the garage or attic with your kids lets you know which family heirlooms and childhood memorabilia they cherish.
• When you sort storage junk with the people you love, you have the opportunity to share the meaning behind personal keepsakes.

Don’t let years of clutter swallow the time you have with the people you love. After you sort through your stuff, call Mr Junk to haul your junk. We’ll haul, sweep, and donate your junk so that you can focus on creating new memories with the people you love.

Warm weather infuses homeowners with an energy and drive to create the best possible home environment. They clean carpets, overhaul attic storage, and scrub the house from top to bottom. Once spring-cleaning is finished, many metro Atlanta residents move their home improvement efforts outdoors. As you rip up scraggly bushes, remove hazardous trees from your property, and freshen up spring gardens, remember that Mr Junk makes yard work cleanup easy.

Instead of hacking up branches and hauling them off piece by piece, our customer saved time and effort by pulling up her plants straight from the root. Mr Junk loaded the bushes into our truck bed and the job was done. “Yard work made easy.”

If you’re busy carting kids to school, running errands, or working during the day, call Mr Junk. This customer left us instructions and we took care of her yard debris while she was away.

Cleaning up is just one way Mr Junk goes above and beyond your typical junk hauling service. After hauling junk from customers’ driveways, we always sweep up afterwards. You’ll feel like the debris was never even there!

Do you have rotting branches, unwanted shrubs, and other yard debris to haul off your property? Call Mr Junk debris removal services. Not only will we haul off your organic junk, we’ll leave your driveway, yard, and garden clean of any leftover twigs or leaves. All you have to do is decide what to plant next!

Do you remember when your mother used to make you do chores? Like everything moms do, chores serve a dual purpose: teach kids responsibility, and take a few simple tasks off mom’s hands so she can cross items of her child care, home care, and husband care list. When we get older, we begin to appreciate just how much our mothers do for us. What we don’t always remember is that they still have an endless list of cleaning to accomplish! If you’re looking for a Mother’s Day gift from the heart, tackle a difficult project from her to-do list.

Cleaning and Organization

Surprise your mom with the perfect gift this year: a day of relaxation. Chances are your mom has years of junk accumulated in closets, drawers, and crawl spaces. Take a load off her mind by sorting through her cluttered closets and dust-covered boxes of memorabilia. She’ll appreciate not needing to haul heavy junk from storage, and she may be willing to part with more stuff over the phone than in person.

Home Improvement

If you’re handy with a saw and nails, Mother’s Day is the perfect opportunity to give a homemade gift. Build your mother that beautiful back deck she’s always wanted. Not feeling that ambitious? Find small home maintenance tasks around the house. Replace a rusting faucet, repaint her bedroom in a color she loves (with her permission, of course), or weed the garden.

Landscaping

Once Mr Junk hauls the debris from your mother’s yard, you’ll have a clear canvas to plant roses, lay cobblestone paths, and hang ornamental bird-feeders by the windows. Our junk hauling service leaves no mess behind, meaning you don’t have to worry about sweeping away rusty nails before you dig into your mom’s favorite flowers.

Just because you’ve given your mom the gift of junk removal doesn’t mean you want to haul off her broken furniture yourself. Call Mr Junk to remove old appliances, boxes of junk, and unwanted furniture. Then focus on the best part of Mother’s Day: spending quality time with the woman who’s given you life.

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Spring-cleaning has a way of revealing just how messy our lives have gotten over the winter. We spend weekends sorting through storage spaces, organizing cluttered closets, and tossing junk from the garage. But there’s one area we often overlook, a space we use more frequently than attics or tool sheds: the car.

Top 3 Reasons to Clean Out Your Car

1. Your home may reflect your lifestyle to friends and family, but everyone from your coworkers to your kids’ teachers see the state of your car. Make a good impression by keeping your car junk-free.
2. A messy car puts a damper on travel. Whether you’re carting kids to soccer practice or piling in for a trip to the beach, junk on the floor, under the seats, and in the trunk makes for cramped—and dirty—quarters.
3. Washing your car regularly keeps it newer and increases the resale value. Keeping both the interior and the exterior clean may reduce maintenance costs, too.

Hauling Junk Cars and Car Parts

No matter what you do, some cars aren’t worth saving. If you have a junk car that won’t run, old car parts piled in the garage, or worn tires you don’t want to wind up in a landfill, call Mr Junk. Our junk removal company is committed to giving junk new life. Anytime Mr Junk hauls your stuff, you can rest assured that it will be donated or recycled if possible. We haul and recycle old tires, car parts, scrap metal, and junk cars. The best part? We’ll pay you top salvage value for your broken and junk vehicles.

Have boxes of junk from cleaning out your trunk? Are you sick of looking at those old tires in your garage? Call Mr Junk today.

Spring-cleaning is a beautiful thing: fresh scents, open spaces, and the feeling of accomplishment you get when you toss junk that’s been clogging up your life. If only it wasn’t so stressful. If you find yourself overwhelmed with storage boxes, stuffed attics, and closet clutter, don’t fear! Mr Junk has found your decluttering inspiration.

A New Way of Thinking

The internet is full of useful tips for home organization and creative storage. But when it comes to unnecessary junk, no one declutters quite like a minimalist! If you find yourself holding onto items you no longer have a use for, it may be time for a shift in perspective. Minimalists believe in leading simple lives uncluttered by unnecessary possessions. While most of us aren’t sold on the idea of paring down to 20, 50, or 100 possessions, the minimalist mindset is useful in separating the junk from the treasures.

Cleaning Like a Minimalist

Minimalists weren’t born free of junk drawers and overflowing closets; they retrained their mind to reflect their ideals. Many of their restructuring techniques are useful for hauling spring junk or cleaning out forgotten storage units.

• Start small. Declutter counter spaces and open cabinets first, then take a break so you don’t get bogged down in what you’re losing.
• Reduce your clutter little by little by giving away one item a day.
• Change your perspective to get rid of clutter that blends into the background.
• Try the hanger trick. Face all the hangers in your closet in one direction. When you wear an item, flip around the hanger. At the end of a year, toss the items you haven’t worn.
• Make it a game. Test yourself to see how few items you can survive on for a month. After four weeks are up, you’ll see your clutter in a new light.
• Get in it for the long haul. Go through your house room by room, placing every item you own in a box to keep, donate, recycle, or throw away. Reorganize the stuff you want, and call Mr Junk to haul away the rest.

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A Bagster sounds like a great deal. $29.99 for convenient, unscheduled junk removal without leaving your home? It’s more manageable that renting a dumpster, easier than packing your pickup truck with debris, and simpler than calling an unreliable junk hauling service. But like most things that sound too good to be true, the Bagster is, too.

The Price Isn’t Right

Bagsters may look like a cheap solution when you see them at the hardware store, but the price of this junk removal option isn’t as great a deal as it seems. The Bagster itself costs around $30, but the pickup charge is over $100. After running to the hardware store to buy a Bagster, filling it up, and calling to schedule pickup, you’re looking at around $140 in cost alone. Whereas the Bagster comes at a blanket rate, Mr Junk charges by the size of your junk haul. The best part? We have no minimum pickup fee, and our junk hauling team will move, remove, and recycle your old stuff with no sneaky add-on charges.

More Trouble Than It’s Worth

Recently, a customer called us to remove a Bagster from her yard. She couldn’t coordinate with Bagster’s extensive restrictions, fees, and waste management scheduling problems.

• Bagster requires street removal. Debra’s contractor loaded it near the house, so she had to drag the heavy Bagster to the street.
• Bagster only allows certain types of junk. Debra would’ve had to dig the tires and chemicals out of her Bagster before waste management would haul it off her property.
• Because her Bagster didn’t meet their requirements, the waste removal company rescheduled at additional cost to Debra.

Other common problems with Bagsters include:

• Doing all the labor yourself
• Junk sitting in your yard or driveway until waste management can remove it
• Only 3 cubic yards of space per Bagster
• Bagsters can only contain 1 cubic yard of heavy renovation material (brick, concrete, sod, etc)
• No junk recycling
• Waste management removes only the Bagster ; you have to clean up what’s left behind

For fast, inexpensive junk removal, call Mr Junk.

Some homeowners steadily chip away at spring-cleaning from March until May, while others prefer to haul off winter junk in one fell swoop. The key to effective spring-cleaning is to find a system that works. Whether your spring overhaul involves organized chaos or tightly controlled cleaning, here’s a spring-cleaning checklist to make “out with the old” a little easier.

Spring Home Maintenance

Spring is an excellent time to tackle those home cleaning and maintenance tasks that slip through the cracks. Kick off your spring-cleaning by:

• Dusting baseboards, rafters, ceiling fans, and fixtures
• Wash doors and walls
• Touch up paint
• Clean air vents
• Replace HVAC filters, light bulbs, smoke detector batteries
• Shampoo carpet
• Reseal windows
• Clean or re-grout tile
• Schedule an appointment with pest control

De-Cluttering Your House

Spring de-cluttering serves two purposes: remove old junk from your home and update subpar equipment. Whether you take spring-cleaning one room at a time or wherever the mess looks worst, an organization overhaul of your storage spaces freshens up your home for the warmer months. Organization is the key to spring-cleaning success. Create a pile for keep, donate, and trash. After determining what’s worth keeping and what needs replacing, reorganize your closets and cabinets to prevent junk buildup. Call Mr Junk to haul away trash and donation items. Our junk removal service will always try to donate or recycle your old stuff. Let us remove your old appliances, furniture, and junk boxes so you can get back to spring-cleaning.

A Cleaner, Fresher Home

Many helpful spring-cleaning checklists litter the internet, giving you room-by room projects for a cleaner home. For each room, remember:

• Clean doorknobs and handles
• Wipe down doors, walls, and cabinets
• Clean the space under the sink and inside hanging cabinets
• Clean baseboards and ceiling corners
• Remove scuffmarks from floors, walls, and cabinets
• Clean all appliances
• Disinfect all surfaces
• Wash all linens (comforters, pillow shams, throw blankets, sheets, and towels)

Has spring-cleaning drained your energy? Don’t waste more time waiting for a junk hauling company that won’t deliver. Call Mr Junk for same-day junk removal services.

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When you have a pile of debris clogging up your backyard, the last thing you want to do is wait a week for your junk hauling service to clean up the mess. Mr Junk offers same day junk removal, so you can clean home clutter on your schedule. In these recent jobs, customers were left waiting by other trash services . . . until Mr Junk swept in and saved the day!

After you’ve sold your home, the last thing you need is a junk removal service that doesn’t deliver! This customer called Mr Junk after waiting hours past her scheduled appointment with another junk hauling company. We removed her junk in a jiffy so she could focus on closing the sale.

Carol flew in from Texas to help her aging mother clean out her Marietta home. With only a weekend to spend together, they didn’t want to waste the day waiting for a junk removal company. Carol was surprised to discover that Mr Junk could haul her mom’s old junk that same day! A few hours later her mother’s Marietta home was spick and span, leaving Carol a whole weekend to spend time with her mom.

Here at Mr Junk, we’re fast, efficient, and thorough. If you need junk hauled in a hurry, call now for same day pickup.

Some junk is too old to save, too dirty to clean, or too unstable to put to good use. But what about the stuff that’s just, well, junky? The trend of upcycling has swept DIY blogs and home improvement stores, breathing new life into tired junk and unattractive antiques. While many upcycling trends simply result in new, artistic-looking garbage (coat hangers and trash bags are never attractive, no matter what colors you paint them), many of these decorating innovations make old, well-loved furniture stylish again. If you’re a craft-lover or a penny-pincher, here’s everything you need to know about the upcycling trend.

What is Upcycling?

“Upcycling” sounds like a typical, modern eco-trend, but it’s not a new concept. Reiner Pilz coined the term in 1994 when he said, “Recycling . . . I call it downcycling. They smash bricks, they smash everything. What we need is upcycling—where old products are given more value, not less.” While recycling works for items that are no longer usable, revitalizing tired but workable items saves both money and resources. Upcycling is essentially adding value to items others deem worthless by fixing superficial problems or giving new uses to old things. The best upcyclers are people who see potential beyond surface-level problems like chipped paint or broken hinges. Upcycling can be as simple as painting a faded dresser or as innovative as making lawn furniture out of old tires.

Why Upcycle?

Save money on new furniture

Teach your kids to think creatively

Encourage you to learn new skills

Conserve natural resources

Keep trash out of landfills

Do you have broken, unstable, or dirt-contaminated items that aren’t worth the investment of upcyling? Call Mr Junk to haul away old appliances, furniture, scrap metal, and yard equipment.