1-800-Got-Junk? Article

1-800-GOT-JUNK: The Junk Removal Trend
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March 10th, 2006


One of the latest trends in home improvement is organizing and de-cluttering.

A local company is tapping into that need to downsize, and finding lots of folks want help clearing the clutter.

Ken Gotlib and his "1-800-GOT-JUNK" crew are helping Laura Taylor clear her Santa Clara home for a move.

The old toys and building material to an old metal shed and wood will be out of here.

The crew will sort, pile, tear down, chop up, and haul away just about anything, anywhere on your property.

But they don't handle liquids or hazardous materials.

Gotlib says "People really have a lot of stress these days and all the pressure on themselves to really deal with their lives, what we do, very simply is take that pressure off them."

They recycle what they can: metal, paper, plastic, yard debris, and wood.

And the junk that isn't headed for recycling or the dump, will be donated to charity where it can find a new life.

That's what sold Laura Taylor, the fact that "Got Junk" recycles or donates 60% to 80% of what they clear away.

She says "I did think I could do it myself, but when I weighed the hassle to tear it down, get it organized, haul it off, to find out where it went. It wasn't worth doing it myself."

Since starting 9 months ago, the guys have hauled away both interesting and disgusting stuff.

Gotlib says "We had 100 bowling balls and I think 2 or 3 hundred old roller skates."

Sean Newton, one of the crew, says "Old appliances that have been sitting around years and years that happen to have food still in them, that's probably the worse we've seen."

That's why they're staying busy. They do what we don't want to. Newton says "It's a dirty job and somebody does it and that's us."

They charge by fractions of a load. Their truck holds 12 pick-up's worth.

The crew is hauling away about a half a load for Taylor.

Taylor says as her junk goes so does her stress.

"I'm so relieved. Oh, it's gone."

"GOT JUNK" charges 159 dollars for an eighth of a load... up to 498 for a full load.


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