If your New Year's resolution was to clean out the garage and you still haven't touched it, help could be at your fingertips.
Call the guys at 1-800-GOT-JUNK to pick up where the garbage men leave off.
Billed as a junk removal company, 1-800-GOT-JUNK comes to your home, takes your old beat-up couch and whatnot and either brings it to the dump or to be resold or recycled.
1-800-GOT-JUNK is new to the Austin area (so new it’s not listed on the Web site yet), but it’s well known throughout the United States and Canada, where it began.
On Saturday, Becky Wooley of North Austin didn't have to lift a finger.
"I have a garage full of junk that I've been collecting instead of getting rid of. This is my New Year's resolution, so I can check that off," she said.
Jose Reyes and his crew have been making people’s junk in Travis and Williamson County disappear for the past two months.
"People don't have to take their items to the curb to be picked up. They can be in the backyard, they can be in the garage, they can inside the house as well. We picked up furniture inside houses, we picked up a Jacuzzi in the backyard, we picked up a pool light in the back yard," Reyes said.
1-800-GOT-JUNK began in Vancouver, Canada in 1989 as a way for a broke college student to earn some extra cash. Now it services 70 cities and makes $13 million a year.
"Our truck and our tools allow us to work fast. We have ramps so we can walk up and down the truck quickly. We have the tools to pick up and cart items that are a little bit oversized,” Reyes said.
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1-800-GOT-JUNK
Junk removal company takes care of your trashy problems.
 
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And the job's not done when the truck is full. As an added bonus, 1-800-GOT-JUNK also cleans up the area.
A visit from the 1-800-GOT-JUNK guys might set you back up to $375, but Wooley said it's worth it.
"When you consider the time they take to do it and you don't have to do it, the effort they put in that you don't have to put in, they haul it all away and do everything," she said.
