The most challenging part of Father’s Day finding dad a meaningful gift he’ll actually like. He loves the grill you chipped in for two years ago, but it’s not time to replace it yet. He never seems to wear the golf shirts you get him. And as much as he’d love tickets to the game, it just doesn’t fit into his schedule. The best gifts are sometimes the least expensive. This Father’s Day Mr Junk has the perfect clean-out service for any kind of dad.

• The DIY Guy. Big projects mean big messes. If your dad’s the kind of guy who will rip up and refurbish a deck, he probably has a yard full of scrap materials and renovation junk. Help him tackle his latest project and call Mr Junk for fast, painless removal of the leftover junk.
• The Visionary. Sometimes there’s a great divide between thinking and doing. If your father’s the type of man with grand plans and no follow-through, he’s given you the perfect opportunity for a meaningful father’s day gift. Rifle through his plans for an updated kitchen, a fresh landscape, or a new outdoor entertaining area. Enlist the help of family and friends to make his dreams a reality, then call Mr Junk to clean up the mess.
• The Working Man. There are men who have jobs, and there are men who have jobs. If your father spends long hours at the office, chances are he doesn’t want to clean out clutter and haul yard debris after work. Take the hard stuff off his hands by organizing his junkiest home spaces. After you’ve cleaned out his garage, attic, and storage shed, call Mr Junk. We’ll donate or recycle his unwanted items, leaving you and your dad to enjoy a relaxing, clutter-free Father’s Day weekend.

Spring-cleaning may be dwindling to its last few boxes, but home improvement fever is still going strong. Folks in Roswell, Kennesaw, and Woodstock are breaking out the power tools to spruce up their homes for summer events. Whether your home updates include surface stuff or intensive rebuilding, check out these top 5 home renovation mistakes before you start a messy new project.

1. Diving right in. It’s tempting to tackle home renovation as soon as inspiration strikes, but that road leads to disaster. Plan the cost, materials, and timetable before you pull out the tools for your home renovation project.
2. Being shortsighted. Quality materials cost more money, require a more professional hand, and often look less showy than popular home style trends. Save the savings for easily interchangeable home décor items; when it comes to cabinets, flooring, and plumbing, it pays to splurge.
3. Choosing the wrong renovations. All homeowners have personal style preferences, but when those preferences clash with the style of the home, the décor of the rest of the house, or the renovations of nearby neighbors, the difference can be jarring. When in doubt, make simple, timeless updates to your home space.
4. Room by room. Most homeowners fall into two renovation categories: fix it all at once or only fix the biggest problem. The former approach makes homes unlivable for months at a time, while the latter often leads to mismatched houses of tasteful, modern rooms stuck beside outdated home spaces. Tackle your renovations room by room, making the transition between each space as seamless as possible.
5. Choosing the wrong contractor. DIY projects can have beautiful results, but don’t get in over your head. If you’re tackling an extensive home renovation project, find a professional contractor to rewire electrical systems, move plumbing fixtures, and make major structural changes to the house.

No want wants to trip over splintered boards, rusting nails, and torn strips of wallpaper from the ‘70s. After you’ve completed your home renovation projects, call Mr Junk to haul away the debris, leftover materials, and dirt cluttering up your new home spaces.

We don’t plan to hoard junk, it just happens. “I’ll organize that box tomorrow” turns into “shove it in the attic, dear.” Plans to sort family heirlooms never fit into everyone’s schedules. Hauling off home garbage becomes a daily occurrence. When junk gets the best of you, it’s difficult to contain it. Sometimes it seems easier to let cluttered closets stay junky instead of overhauling home spaces. But with a few simple changes in your everyday house care practices, you can reduce home junk and live a cleaner, clutter-free lifestyle.

Green Cleaning

Most Americans have a cupboard of home cleaning supplies. When it’s time to scrub the bathroom floor, they root around a cabinet brimming with unnecessary bottles, forgotten scrub brushes, and harsh chemical cleaners. Learning green home cleaning reduces the amount of toxins in the air, de-clutters your cleaning closet, and gives your home a crisp, environmentally-friendly freshness. Use basic kitchen ingredients like vinegar, lemon, baking soda, and water to kill germs and clean your home without a separate bottle of chemical cleaner for every task. If you’re not willing to clean green, sort through your cleaning supplies and eliminate the bottles you rarely use.

Reducing Home Waste

• Put the kids to work with a daily or weekly chore list.
• Buy quality products that don’t need frequent replacing.
• Use reusable tote bags for groceries, lunches, and shopping.
• Give away or donate items you don’t need.
• When possible, eliminate the use of throwaway items like paper plates and plastic bags.
• Repurpose junk using tips from life hack guides or upcycling blogs.
• Plan a schedule for home organization and junk removal. Deep clean your cluttered spaces once a month, once a season, or twice a year depending on your level of mess.

For junk hauling made easy, call Mr Junk.

It’s the season of caps and gowns, inspirational speeches, and piles of presents you’ll never think twice about. Whether you’re in high school, college, or graduate school, graduation means letting go of the last few years and moving forward into the great unknown. Unfortunately, it also means there’s no more time to put off packing. As you decide what possessions are pertinent to your new life in a Kennesaw dorm or Marietta apartment, take a few hours to haul off the junk you’re leaving behind.

3 Steps to a Graduation Clean Out

Graduation is a chaotic time. You have finals to finish, pomp and circumstance to suffer through, and plenty of parties to keep you busy. But before long you’ll be packing up your life and settling into a new environment. To make the move as simple as possible, declutter before you move.

1. Set a goal. You’ll have more time to focus on friends if you don’t have “closet clutter clean out” on your to-do list. Make a schedule and stick to it.
2. Think long term. Sure, that OneDirection poster got you through high school, but does it have a place in your college dorm room? If not, regift it to a younger sibling or add it to the boxes of items to donate.
3. Don’t get too sentimental. Did that antique necklace belong to your grandmother in college? Pack your treasure somewhere safe. Did your aunt give you a tacky graphic tee for graduation? Snap a photo for her inbox and add the shirt to the donation pile.

Mr Junk makes junk removal simple. If you have boxes of childhood toys, a dorm futon that didn’t make the grown-up cut, or piles of papers you never want to see again, call our Marietta junk hauling service. We’ll clean out your old life so you can focus on making memories for your new one.

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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.