Give Me Your Junk

Another unadvertised service JustClean has been doing is limited junk haul-aways.

If you have old clothes, recyclables, hazardous materials, or small appliances and furniture, I will be happy to haul them away at no charge.

Junk makes cleaning hard, so I am delighted to help with anything that makes my job easier.

You have to pile up the items you want to get rid of for me, because I will not presume to know what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of. And give me a warning before your appointment, so I can come prepared with boxes and extra trash bags.

The only caveat is that the stuff will go to the places that are convenient to me in my service area. So that means your clothes and household items will go to Temporary Emergency Services or the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. And if they're really junk, they will go into the trash or one of the city's recycling drop-off points. If they are electronics or hazardous materials, I will try to hold onto them until the city does its special collection days, and I plan to advertise that as those days approach.

So far, I have only been trashing stuff and donating it to TES. So I know that TES has receipts that I can fill out for you. If the ReStore or any other place in town I end up going to does not have receipts, I will type you up a list in case you want to make a tax deduction out of your stuff.

The only limit to what I can haul off is what I can lift safely (up to 50 lbs.) and what I can fit in my little station wagon. So big furniture, mattresses and appliances are a no-go. I think some charities will come and pick those things up for you, but I don't know that for sure, so you will have to call around.

One other donation place I am familiar with is Hospice of West Alabama. They can always use individual-portion snack foods, drinks, personal care-type items and birdseed (their standard wish-list is here.).  It never occurred to me that I might have client castoffs to take there until today, when a commercial client was getting rid of a pile of coffee creamers and sugars and the like because nobody in the office drinks coffee these days. So if you somehow end up with bulk refreshment or toiletry castoffs, I know just what to do with them!

Right now, hauling stuff for a proper disposal really is no sweat off my back. The donation sites are in my neighborhood and or along my daily work routes. I am pretty sure that will always be free at JustClean.