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A lot of posts at www.Recycledjunk.com reach far above what one person can do on their own. But while every contribution helps, sometimes looking around the old homestead makes folks collapse under the stress.
1. Clean Out That Bursting Garage
Toss what needs to go out, store what needs to ke kept, and reorganize what need to stay in the garage. Find a way to free space, clean, and find room for new projects. Freecycle up the stuff that needs to go or just trash it. See what condition that garage is in after the mess has been cleared away.
Stored boxes, piled furniture, and unseen walls can hide bacteria, fungi, and hidden toxins from decomposed materials or finishes. Pests and mold, rain damage and completely antiquated stuff need to part ways with the Time Machine. Get rid of anything that isn’t yours.
2. Assemble all Extraneous Materials and Freecycle
Those shelves in the workroom, the hardware from some long loast, appliance, old cans of paints, those extra pieces of furniture that have been moved around the attic every season or so, they have got to go. Look under the kid’s beds and behind the three rows of bridesmaid’s dresses in the closet.
You know when people have 5 minutes to get one thing out of the house before it burns, gets eaten by aliens, or slides into the yawning crevasses ?Review those amazing collections of …. junk. If you don’t use it once a year, it goes out. If you have no plans to use the stuff in future, toss it. If you couldn’t get to it in 5 minutes, think about that.
3. Give Up the Extra Car
Forget parking tickets, shimmying the car around she curb on washing waste removal days, and the extra footprint out front of in the garage and/or yard. Sell or donate the fourth (or 9th through 12th) wheels. Save on car insurance, gas, and repair bills. And the environment.
4. Earth work it
If your neighbors can’t be bothered getting the padded envelope and mailing their outworn/outdated cellphone, battery and/or charge, do it for them. Send the kids out to earn their KoolAid or put a plastic collection bag on the porch. Send Earthworks the stuff.
5. Mulchify
Take a look at the yard. Are there burnt and scrubby patches where grass or a walkway might go? Does the sun hit those East bushes every morning until they are dull husks instead of fragrant fronds? Why in almost triple digit heat are you spray rivulets into the curb gutter and leaving bare earth exposed to baking temperatures?
Mulchify the earth and re-adjust the sprinklers. Put up border liners high and low in the backyard like little “fences’ or trellis grids of patchwork. Protect earth and little feet and set some walkway stones on a path to keep tractions prevent erosion.
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