And it is totally unnecessary. There is no need to spend a weekend cleaning out a garage, year after year. This dismal doom can be mostly avoided by taking control of your garage. Here are five ways to show your garage who is boss. 

1. Keep Your Cars in Your Garage

This is a piece of advice that is so obvious it sounds counterintuitive. One of the best ways to keep your garage clean and organized is to use your garage for your cars. You can’t fill a garage with junk when your car is in the way. Right?

Right.

Not to mention storing your car in a garage spares your car’s paint job a pounding from the weather and will lower your car insurance premiums. 

2. Hang Your Tools on a Peg Board 

When of your dining room chairs has a loose screw that is threatening to collapse the entire chair. You say to yourself, Hey, I can fix that! I just need to grab a screwdriver from the garage! Two hours later you’ve located four stuffed animals, a pair of pliers, some loose bolts, and a hammer. But no screwdriver.

There is an easy and cool solution. Hang your tools on the wall. You can either arrange your tools on a peg board, a rack, or specialized hangers. This also gives you an excuse to bring that work bench you’ve always wanted. What else compliments a showroom of tools better than a work bench? 

When you are finished organizing your tools grab a couple of empty coffee tins and start organizing your screws, nails, bolts, nuts, etc. One coffee tin for screws, one coffee tin for nails, and so on. Depending on the type of Do-It-Yourself jobs you do you may want to get even more granular — a coffee can for wood screws and another coffee can for machine screws. 

You can also use store bought organizers to store fasteners and screws, but I tend to like coffee cans. There is something deeply nostalgic about fishing a screw out of an repurpose Folger’s tin.

3. Install Shelving 

There are a ton of shelving solutions that are aimed squarely at getting your boxes off the floor. You can buy free standing shelving or shelves that screws (or bolts) directly to the wall. You can even find garage shelving that is designed to hang down from your garage’s rafters (this is an ideal way to store infrequently used stuff like ladders.

Another way you can get boxes off the floor is to install quarter inch plywood boards running across the rafters of your garage. This can serve as an “garage attic” where you can store seasonal items like Christmas decorations.

If you’ve made an effort to carefully install shelving do yourself another favor and buy some sealable plastic boxes. Plastic boxes will last a lot longer (possibly forever) than cardboard boxes and do a better job of protecting the stuff you are trying to store. 

4. Label Everything

Either buy a label maker or a couple rolls of masking tape and a marker. Now label everything. Even if you know what is in a box today, label it. Why? This will prevent you from the, “Well I know the Christmas decorations are in THERE!” syndrome. Labeling keeps you from guessing and prevents you from making a mess when you guess wrong. 

If you want to get really serious, after packing a box for storage, write out an inventory list of what’s in the box (1 Xmas wreaths, 4 boxes Christmas bulbs). This technique is particularly effective if you have multiple boxes filled with similar items (.i.e. Christmas decorations).

5. Don’t Store Used Chemicals

Paint, household cleaners, and automotive fluids are all considered household hazardous waste and you can’t put them in your normal curbside side trash. So many people store used chemicals in their garage. This is a bad idea on multiple levels of bad.

Firstly, an excess number of poorly store chemicals creates a fire hazard that can damage or destroy your home. Secondly, chemicals laying around your garage pose a hazard to small kids and pets. Instead of storing household hazardous chemicals drop them off at a city approved drop off center. Or call a hauling service like Green Clean Junk Removal Services to haul away old paints, cleaners, etc.

Getting control over your garage takes a little time, a little effort, and a lot of planning. But the results can be amazing. You not only reduce clutter but you turn your garage into another show piece inside your home. 

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No?

Well then it is time to call Green Clean Junk Removal Services. Green Clean Junk Removal Services is standing by to help you clean up before Memorial Day so you can enjoy the rest of your summer. Here are three of our most popular junk removal services just in time for service.

Garage Clean Out

Our junk removal professionals come to your garage and haul away anything you want hauled away, from boxes to boats (yes, we’re not kidding we’ve hauled away a boat before) and everything in between. As a bonus service Green Clean Junk Removal Services can haul away most household hazardous materials you have stored in your garage, like paint and automotive fluids. 

Backyard Clean Out

Backyards are made to be used during the Summer. They make for great gathering places for friends and family. I know I love grilling and partying out in my backyard. But is your backyard Summer Party ready? If the answer is No, Green Clean Junk Removal Services has got your back. Our junk haulers can help you clean up and clean out your backyard. Need to get rid of that old grill? Consider it gone. Is that old swing set cramping your style? Blink and you’ll never miss it. Just need to get rid of some downed trees and yard debris? We can haul that away for you.

Hauling Services

Summer is the time for do-it-yourself projects. Need to get rid of construction debris? Need to haul away appliances or furniture? Moving and need something heavy and awkward moved from one location to another location? Call Green Clean Junk Removal Services. Our hauling services are world class and affordable for almost everyone.

Our junk hauling pros are standing by to provide you with a free estimate. So call today 888-347-2851 and book an appointment today. 

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Stop!

Save your Saturday. Green Clean Junk Removal Services can do all the things you don’t want to do for you. Need to clean out your garage? Green Clean Junk Removal Services has a garage clean out service. Need to clean out your backyard? Green Clean Junk Removal Services has a backyard clean out service. 

We offer same day junk removal so if you need to clean up this Saturday (or any Saturday) call Green Clean Junk Removal Services. 

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Now actor Jeremy Irons is trying to bring attention to the problem of trash. In his new documentary “Trashed” Jeremy irons is trying to raise awareness about trash removal and sound the alarm before our future is buried in a wave of garbage past. 

From CBSNews.com:

“I wanted to make a documentary about something which I thought was important and which was curable,” he said. “It’s not rocket science. It takes a little effort, it takes a little thought. It takes a little education. I think most people want to do what is right. But they need a bit of organization. 

“We make everybody wear seatbelts now. That was a bore, wasn’t it? But we do it, and we don’t think about it anymore. Very simple to do the same with how we deal with our garbage.”

Jeremy Irons is bringing a much needed voice to our fight against trash and garbage. We all could be recycling more and throwing away a lot less. And Green Clean Junk Removal Services applauds Irons for his efforts. 

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The average person generates about 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, 29 pounds total per week, and 1,600 pounds of trash per year. That sounds like a shocking amount but if you think about the amount of trash you take out every week it makes sense.

Now imagine reducing your yearly trash footprint to something that could fit inside a quart-sized jar. Sound impossible? Well one California family did it.

From Forbes.com:

Five years ago Bea Johnson and her husband and two sons were looking for a home closer to the restaurants, shops and school in their coastal California town.

During the year they spent house hunting, the family of four moved into a small apartment, took only the possessions that were absolutely necessary and left the rest in storage.

“After living with just the necessities, we realized that we had much more time to spend with our family when we weren’t spending it caring for a large house and lots of belongings,” says Johnson.

Then, when they did decide on a house, they chose one half the size of their previous home and simplified by selling most of their old stuff.

Around that time, Johnson and her husband began investigating environmental issues. “We read books, watched documentaries, and what we learned worried us and made us sad for our kids’ futures,” she says. “So we decided to do something about it. My husband quit his job to start a sustainability consulting company, and I tackled greening our house.”

It was then that Johnson devised a system to reduce the family’s garbage—she calls it the Zero Waste Home. She started by swapping everything disposable in their home (paper towels, water bottles, grocery bags) for reusables.

Today, she says, her family’s yearly waste can fit in a quart-size jar.

Simplifying and decluttering your life is the mantra Green Clean Junk Removal Services lives by. You don’t need as much stuff as you think you need. And frankly you are better off without a lot of the things you think you need. While most of us won’t be able to reduce our trash footprint to zero, by decluttering and simplifying our lives, we can all lead happier lives and protect the Earth for the next generation.

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From a story on LAist.com:  

A bill for a statewide ban on single-use plastic shopping bags is up for consideration, backed by Los Angeles-based state senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima).

SB 405 “would phase out single-use plastic bags in California grocery stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, and pharmacies,” according to Padilla.

“SB 405 will help protect our environment by phasing out single-use plastic bags in California. Single-use plastic bags fill our landfills, clog inland waterways, litter our coastline, and kill thousands of fish, marine mammals and seabirds,” said Senator Alex Padilla in a release posted to his site.

If passed, the ban would take effect January 1, 2015 at grocery stores and pharmacies. In July 2016, convenience stores and liquor stores would be required to meet the same standard. SB 405 would not pre-empt local ordinances already in place governing limitations on single-use plastic bags.

The proposed legislation made progress Wednesday, when the Senate Environmental Quality Committee today approved the bill. The bill remains pending in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

I’ve long been a big proponent of using reusable grocery bags to limit trash and clutter. Using reusable grocery bag also help protect our natural resources and limit our oil consumption. So if you haven’t invested in reusable grocery bags yet, time to do so. 

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Junk Removal: Turn Off the Trash will be a musical experience that enlightens the theater going audience about the perils of too much junk and construction debris left inside a home. 

Oh, and also, April Fool’s.

But unsightly junk around your house is no joke. If you need household junk removal, backyard clean out, or a garage clean out call Green Clean Junk Removal today. We haul it away fast than you can say … well, you know …

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Call Green Clean Junk Removal today at  888-347-2851

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The closet is a great place to start your spring cleaning. Chances are you are only wearing about a quarter of what is in your closet. Chances are the rest of your closet is filled with clothes that don’t fit, are out of fashion, or are worn out. So devote a weekend to pairing down your wardrobe and donating the clothes you don’t need to a good charity.

The basement and garage are another hotspot that accumulates junk and garbage. Chances are you’ve got a lot of things piling up in your garage that you don’t need. Start at the edges of your garage and make three piles of junk in your driveway: Keep, Throw Away / Recycle, and Donate. Your throw away and donate piles should be larger than your keep piles or your not really accomplishing much of anything.

If you are totally lost and don’t know where to begin with your Spring cleaning, call Green Clean Junk Removal Services! We offer a full range of junk removal services in Los Angeles and New York City. Household junk removal, commercial junk removal, garage and backyard clean outs, bulky item pick up, and a hauling service for big jobs.

Call Green Clean Junk Removal Services and ask about our Spring Cleaning Special!

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How much does Green Clean Junk Removal Services recycle? We take the green in our name very seriously. We try to make every junk removal job a green junk removal job. Certain junk removal projects we recycle as much as 60% of the junk we collect. If your junk consists of cardboard, scrap metal, or concrete there is a good chance we can recycle nearly all of it.

There are certain types of junk that simply cannot be recycled. Old paint cans and household cleaners for instance cannot be recycled and if they are disposed of improperly these chemicals can pollute groundwater and surrounding soil. Green Clean Junk Removal Services make sure that these hazardous chemicals are disposed of properly and safely.

At Green Clean Junk Removal Services the environment is our first priority. We are dedicate to making every city green and clean.

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