Cleaning out the Garage

I never imagined that moving could be such a hassle.  This year I moved from a lifestyle of living in apartments to living in a house with a garage.  It was an amazing idea that I would have extra space to work in on a daily basis.  The space would be used for cars and also have the ability to be a workshop for us.   This is really important since we purchased a home that was in need of renovations.  We had lots of work to do and hours of wood working and painting to accomplish.  The goal was to use the garage for lots of this especially when the weather turned cold in the late fall and winter.

The idea was going to be great.  We had lots of space and we were excited to move in and utilize this extra space we have never had.  So the move in began and we spend a few days and many truck loads hauling our possessions to our new home.  We had used lots of cheap moving boxes to get us through the long process.  Luckily we had a few family members willing to help us and it was a pretty easy move.  It took a few days and we were left with a home that seemed filled to the gills with cheap moving boxes.  It was unfortunate that they were falling apart and things were getting broken every time we moved them from room to room.

After the move we went through and started to sort out all the boxes and items into their place.  With time and effort the home actually seemed to be getting bigger because all the items were incorrect places and the boxes started to dwindle. Unfortunately, they ended up getting thrown in the garage when we were done.  They kept piling up and getting stacked in strange ways and soon the garage was packed. 

We found we needed a place to work and we were forced to work outside or on our driveway for many weeks.  The weather did indeed start to turn cold and we had to break down and start cleaning out the garage.  This got difficult because the first cold day went from 70 degrees to actual snow and freezing temperatures. It sure is hard to clean when it feels like the wintery abis or that the arctic just moved in. But we did it and accomplished our goal. So work hard and stay more organized then we were. Don’t let things stack up.

Taking out the Trash

I find it an interesting part of life that we make and create so much trash on a daily basis.  I never really paid attention to the quantity of trash until I moved into a home.  It was actually a challenge to discover what to do with my trash as the city I am living in does not provide any kind of trash service.  We are surrounded by cities that provide the service at a reasonable price and yet I am in the highest quality city in the state which decided not to provide the service. 

My tax dollars are at a higher rate and still the city does not provide a trash service.  For me this made it complicated to discover who would actually take my trash away.  So I went on the lookout for online services.  I then found multiple services available and didn’t know which one to choose.

So, I called up as many people as I knew who lived in this city and they all had different answers. It was a complicated task of deciding who would take my cheap moving boxes from my garage and dump them in a sustainable manner. After much consideration I ended up choosing a company which had the best reputation.  I say this with a grain of salt because every company had poor ratings online.  I don’t understand how a city does not provide trash pickup and the only providers are considered poor services.  Why are there not more higher end companies that provide a superior service for a lower price.  I do believe there is something afoot.

It looks like there are only a certain amount of contracts available that the city gives out. So in an essence they are limiting the capitalism that our country is founded upon.  They have limited the services available and given us only poor choices.

Seriously, my garage is full of cheap movingboxes and no one with the proper sustainable dumping service is available to use. It is now my goal to find out who is repsonsible for implimenting the limited amount of trash services available and let the city know that this person or board of people voted against freedom.  They have limited services and I bet taken money in the form of politcal fundraising to do what they have done.  So from this day forward I am on the search to see who has limited our choices and hence limited serice and freedom.