Bin There Dump That: One Man's Trash Blog

Moving can be one of the most stressful events in anyone’s life. It’s right up there with planning a wedding and dealing with a serious illness. But there are ways to lighten the load and make the move easier. The key to any big task is organization.The move begins weeks, if not months, before the day the 18-wheeler is loaded and carries away your lives in a collection of cardboard boxes. It begins with preparation. Following a few steps in the right order can make the often challenging process of relocating a lot less stressful for the entire family.

Here are five ways to smooth out the moving process, whether you’re moving down the street or across the country.

Clutter. It’s a word that can send shivers down a homeowner’s spine. Clutter can be insidious. Over time a relatively clean home slowly begins collecting a books, toys, mail, clothes, and myriad other items of everyday life.

One day you look up and that well-organized structure is now a collection of collections, piles of stuff, disarray that does more than make things look messy.

It can actually affect your physical and mental health.

Earth Day is a celebration of green, and as we all know, green is good. Whether we’re talking about money, the environment or Bin There Dump That’s dumpsters, green is a beautiful color.

Believe it or not, those three things — money, the environment and Bin There Dump That dumpsters — are the perfect way to celebrate Earth Day.

Spring cleaning is a time honored tradition. Children might think it a concept created by overbearing parents tired of berating them on a regular basis. Weary parents exhausted from a winter where much of life was spent indoors feel the need to reinvigorate the household. Spring is a time of rebirth…so, why not revitalize the home, too?

Interestingly, it seems there’s a bit more to spring cleaning than chore-loving families. The concept finds its roots in several different cultures around the world, which suggests there might be a deeply rooted religious, anthropological or biological reason pushing the need for spring cleaning.

Unless you were marking the pages off on a calendar you might not have noticed that we moved from winter into spring. It’s clear, in many parts of the country, no one told Mother Nature.

It won’t be long, however, before the mercury starts rising and we venture outside to see what’s been hiding under the snow for the past several months. It’s not always a pretty sight. During the first warm weekends of spring we see the trees budding, the grass greening, and the first shoots of perennials push up through the earth. As the yard awakens, so does our desire to get our properties in shape, to begin or finish those improvement projects, and to clear the damage from winter storms.

Spring is ripe with opportunities to get your hands on a rental dumpster bin and get cleaning! Here are just a few.

Ask any parent the cause of their home clutter. Their near-universal answer: the children. Children have a unique gift for leaving a path of disaster in their wake. And just as universal is a child’s hatred of cleaning up.

Too often pleas to clean up fall on deaf ears. Ask a child sitting right next to you to clean up his or her mess and you might very well be ignored. Whisper that you’re thinking about taking the family out for ice cream and that same child will come running from six rooms and two floors away. Selectively permeable hearing.

Requests for children to spend time tidying up or decluttering can devolve into a shouting match with tears flowing and threats of punishment flying. And if the work gets done, chances are everyone leaves a little unhappier. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

Whether it’s cleaning a room or cleaning out the house there are some strategies for getting kids to participate in the process. Here's a look at six strategies to make the process more palatable for both the parents and the children. 

Hoarders. It’s one of the more popular reality shows. Sure, it appeals to our baser instincts. We love to see someone whose life is more twisted than our own. Maybe we know someone whose house might qualify for a spot on the show. Or maybe you’re just one stack of newspapers away from your home appearing in its own episode.

Kids, pets, vacations, holiday and birthday presents, clothes, hobbies — the list goes on. Our houses fill with memories that are difficult to get rid of, even though we should.

There’s a simple solution: Get rid of the useless, the old and broken, the memorabilia that does little more than collect dust and make a home a mess. Might we suggest the bag-a-day approach?

So you've identified that your project, whether it be de-cluttering the household or a home renovation project, like installing a new roof, will require a dumpster rental afterwards, to remove the junk. Now it's our part to provide you the ultimate dumpster rental experience.

With that in mind, here are three tips to make your junk removal process as efficient and easy as possible.

Many home renovation projects are big undertakings.

To avoid a Tim "The Toolman" Taylor–style incident à la Home Improvement, you'll need to adequately prepare before you pick up your hammer. A lot can go wrong over the course of any home reno project, but these four considerations of researching, hiring, budgeting and cleaning could mean the difference between a beautifully finished project or a DIY home disaster!