Garage Cleanout in St. Marys, GA

Down here orders, leases and moving dates set a lot of the calendar. A family gets a date, the movers get booked, and suddenly everybody is out in the garage sorting three ways: what goes to the next duty station, what the family is giving away, and what is absolutely not getting on that truck. That last pile is the part we take: the old couch parked out there since the last move, bikes the kids outgrew, garage shelving, the boxes that came down from the attic.

That kind of work runs on somebody else’s date, and we plan to it. Tell us the day the movers come and the day you have to be out. Camden jobs are scheduled, usually within the week, and you get a realistic arrival window built around the route.

Not every garage belongs to a household on orders. When a longtime St. Marys family is downsizing, the garage goes at the pace they set, and half the job is a conversation about what stays.

North of town, where Camden spreads out and feels more coastal, a house out in the Crooked River area gets planned the same way. The drive down from Brunswick is part of the number from the start, never something added at the end.

It all comes out onto the driveway into three piles, keep, donate and go, and you point while the crew carries. The box you can’t make up your mind about can sit off to one side. We do not rush it, and we don’t keep circling back to it.

If something turns up that looks like it might matter, a photo album, a folder of papers, a good set of tools, we stop and ask rather than guess. We would much rather ask you about something worthless than throw out something you can’t replace.

Whatever is staying or waiting on the packers goes back in neatly, boxes stacked rather than piled, so nobody is working around a mess on moving day. The shed and the attic are the same kind of job and can be done on the same visit.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you need removed. We’ll take it from there.

Each load’s destination depends on what’s in it, the condition it’s in and the job. Tools that still work and household goods in good shape get set aside for donation when that makes sense, and the charity on the receiving end decides what it accepts.

Old metal from the garage goes to scrap recycling when it can, and disposal is the last stop, for whatever can’t be used again.

Anything your family is donating on its own before the move is entirely your call. We take what’s left over.