A garage is a wonderful thing … if you are a car. Unfortunately, if you are a person garages can be a pain to manage and keep clean. Often times garages become a storage unit for everything you aren’t using and turns into a junk storage bin for years of unused possessions. Here are three power tips for doing your own garage clean out.

1. Organize and Install Shelving

You can clean out your garage a lot of times without ever throwing anything out. Organize first. Install some shelving solutions to get boxes and crates of stuff off the floor. Label each box so you know where everything is and where to find it. If you have tools stored in your garage consider installing a pegboard to arrange your tools. Also tools neatly hung on a wall above a workbench makes for an excellent little show piece for your garage.

2. Don’t Store Hazardous Materials in Your Garage

People often store paint, automotive fluids, and cleaners in your garage. While its tempting to store all the chemicals, fluids, and paints you aren’t using in your garage we strongly advise against this. Instead take unused and unwanted hazardous chemicals to a drop-off center that handles household hazardous materials. Most cities have them.

3. Donate, Recycle, and Throw Away

Many of the things in your garage are things you’ll never use again. It is doubtful that your Thirty year old son will ever need or want his rocking horse. But that same rocking horse could make a child’s day when donated to charity. So when you are cleaning out your garage make donation to charities and thrift shop your first avenue of disposal.

Recycle as much as you can. You’d be surprised at what can be recycled. From boxes to yard waste most everything can be recycled.

For items that are simply trash that can’t be recycle, well, throw them away. If you’ve got a fairly full garage or a large garage you may want to consider renting a dumpster for a weekend so you can get rid of all the trash stored in your garage in one fell swoop.

These are some Power Garage clean out tips. The biggest thing when it comes to garage cleans out is to just do it and once you’ve done it keep your garage clean so you won’t have to do it again.

I thought i had it all planned out and would be able to get rid of all of my junk by having a really cheap garage sale. Well, it looks like i had a massive Garage Junk fail as i was still left with a large amount of items from the garage sale at my disposal. I sold most of the little nic-nacs but i just couldn’t get rid of any of the other junk. Largely the things i wanted to get rid of the most like the old appliances and desks and such things. To top it all off i didn’t even make that much from the yard sale anyways, which was a total waste of my time. 

I should have listened to my brother in-law who always deals with junk removal and trash out services since he is a realtor and has to deal with foreclosed homes. He gave me some good advice and mentioned that i should hire a junk removal services company to take care of all the things i need to get rid of. I thought he was out of his mind for suggesting i pay money to get rid of my junk.

Well i finally caved and called a junk removal services los angeles company and they gave me a really great price! So much lower than i was expecting and they came out and did the job THAT DAY! I was so happy!