I have officially earned my Martha Stewart badge now. With the help of my fabulous office manager, Wendy, and my good friend, Jerry, we cleaned out the entire garage at the work house. This is a 5 car garage filled with industrial shelves of DVD’s, props, furniture, tools, paint, holiday decorations, pool shit, and whatever other crap you can think of. We hauled every single item out, sorted through it all, re-packaged everything nice and neat and had the cleaning ladies bleach down all the shelves and cupboards and the floor. I found a few dead mice so I was taking any chances.
I felt like I was on that “Hoarders” show. Well, hoarder no more because I ended up with a big pile of junk that was on it’s way out. I called 1-800-Got-Junk and those cute young boys loaded up an entire truck full of stuff. It wasn’t cheap to haul all that junk away but I chose them because they properly recycle all the computer and TV’s and various items. I couldn’t live with myself knowing it was all going into a landfill.
We also cut down and loaded up an entire truck bed full of boxes and I took that and a bunch of styrofoam and aluminum cans down to the local recycling facility. I was amazed at how big the enterprise was. I drove up and found myself in a huge line of cars. There were employees running around taking bags of cans and handing out receipts and forklifts whizzing about. I was told to back my truck up into a huge pile of cardboard. Meanwhile, there were several speeding forklift guys running back and forth in front of and behind my truck driving around as if it were a drag race and large plastic bottle all over the ground so as I drove it sounded like a damn firing range. Not easy on the nerves, that’s for sure. I got $38 for 3 bags of crushed cans and only $3.80 for all that cardboard. Oh well, I wasn’t doing it for the money, I was doing it for Mother Earth. So with this said, Happy Earth Day. I know I did my part 🙂
I took this picture from the front seat of my truck, that picture doesn’t do the pile justice, it was freaking huge!
