I’ve just finished re-vamping my In-laws office space in their apartment. (Pictures to follow in future posts). It turned out to be a much more arduous task than I had expected. I had to get rid of tons of books, old wooden shelving, a 10 foot long laminate counter top, and much more. i started by slowly piling things into an old granny cart and carting them over to Housing Works - my favorite place to donate things. Unfortunately by the 4th trip I had barely made a dent and I was exhausted. My Mother in Law had given me a coupon for a company called “1 800 Got Junk”. I found them in a flash online and had scheduled a pick up within minutes for the next morning. They were curtious on the phone, arrived earlier than the scheduled time, called me to say they were waiting for me outside, crawled down to the basement to help me pull out more junk, and then made sure that i was getting all the possible discounts I was eligible for. They charge by how much stuff you have, not the time. We decided that my stuff would take up about 1/8 of the truck so I was charged around $250. i thought that was a totally reasonable price for the service and they were in and out of the apartment in 30 minutes.