Delving into the World of Hoarding
Hoarding is a topic that has not been talked about much in the past, but in recent times has become a commonly discussed topic. A&E has a program dedicated to the issue; Oprah has had segments dedicated to the issue; and mental health professionals are talking more and more about the problem. Over 3 million people are compulsive hoarders. What was once a family’s dirty little secret has come to light and is now more treatable than ever. With treatment individuals who suffer from this problem can fix the issues they have been dealing with in the past and avoid potential further problems in the future.
Hoarding can cause more problems than simply aesthetic ones. While clutter does cause an unsightly mess it can also be the cause for much more serious problems. Families are torn apart, homes are lost, and childhoods are ruined because of hoarding. In serious cases the problem gets so bad that homes are deemed unlivable by the city and families are forced out. Children in extreme cases have been taken away from their parents because the home is no longer livable. This is an issue that is much more serious than most think and needs to be fixed in the early stages before the problem progresses to the point where the earlier mentioned problems arise.
Those who need help with hoarding should begin by seeking help from a professional who deals with the mental/medical causes of hoarding. This is the best place to start when attempting to cope with the problems that hoarding can cause. The next step is to get organized and de-clutter. A professional organizer who specializes in dealing with hoarders would be a great person to contact in regards to this. The professional organizer will help you sort through the mess and separate what should be kept from the items that need to be discarded. The organizer will be a wonderful resource and can objectively look at the items without emotions coming into play. The organizer will help sort the items and help prepare for the next step which is removal of the excess items. This is where a junk removal company such as College Hunks Hauling Junk, would come into play. These professional junk haulers will come in and remove the excess items so that the home/space can be clutter free and livable.
February 7th, 2010
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Like a modern-day alchemist, Washington, DC-based Envion has developed a system to produce oil from waste plastic. Considering that the price of crude oil is once again on the rise, that’s not unlike turning rocks into gold. Envion, founded in 2004, is keeping the lid on the details of its proprietary technology, but does reveal that it involves extracting the hydrocarbons from plastic, and that low temperature thermal cracking in a vacuum is part of the process.
At one point or another, some of us face a mountain of clutter that we have to sort out. For some, it may be their desk at work, for others, it may be a messy room at home. Regardless of where the clutter is, be it home or work, it can take its toll on you in one way or another. The most obvious cost of clutter is being unorganized, which leads to massive amounts of wasted time searching for misplaced items and documents. This wasted time can eventually lead to monetary losses. This is especially true of clutter in the work place. The amount of time wasted searching for documents lost in the pile on ones desk adds up to lost productivity and ultimately money for you and your employer. The time spent looking for lost papers and documents could be much better spent on activities that would generate income for you or revenue for your business. While the time wasted each day may seem minimal over an entire year, the losses can add up to a figure that would make anyone reconsider their poorly organized spaces. How much money is clutter costing YOU? Post your answer in the comments.
Nearly everyone has acquired books throughout their life than they know what to do with. In many cases, the easiest solution to get rid of these unwanted books is to throw them out in the trash. While that is an environmentally incorrect option, there are multitudes of other ways to get rid of books that will benefit others and divert these books from going to the landfill. One option is to use an online reseller such as 
In both homes and businesses, storage space is something that there never seems to be enough of. Since there just never seems to be enough space, many people choose to store excess items in a storage unit. Most of the time, the storage unit is intended to be a short term fix for the storage problem. While storage units are a good option for short term storage, most people end up leaving the items in storage much longer than they originally intended. This is due to the fact that the items in storage are clearly not needed in day-to-day life. If they were needed every day, the item would not be in a storage facility. Leaving the items long-term in storage becomes acceptable since, on a month-to-month basis, the prices for a storage unit rental don’t make a giant impact on the wallet. However, compounding over many months and years the costs of storage can be surprisingly high and ultimately may be a waste of money. 
The College Hunks Hauling Junk teams are not only the best in the industry at removing your junk but we are also the best at completing those odd or different requests. The Junk Hunks are also experts in many different types of demolition and removal. Do you have an borken hot tub or spa that needs to be removed? No problem. How about an old shed in your backyard? We’ve got you covered. These examples are not the only demolition the Junk Hunks can do, but is one of the most frequent demolition jobs that we encounter. We have also torn down and removed entire garages. 
We throw lots of things away from day to day but most of us don’t think about where these items are ultimately going to end up. The best place for unwanted items to end up is at a proper recycling facility. While not all items can be recycled, much of what we dispose of can be recycled and reused so it makes the least amount of impact on the environment. 
If you missed the 9News computer monitor and television recycling drop-off this past Saturday (March 7th), COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK can take them away for FREE with any size junk removal. NOTE: So as long as you have some junk for us to remove (at normal rates), we can recycle up to 5 monitors or TV’s for FREE! 
Americans take more prescription drugs than ever before. In 2005, over 3.6 billion prescriptions were filled – a 71 percent increase from 1994. However, this does not mean that every capsule is consumed. Many keep unused drugs in their medicine cabinets, past their expiration dates, while others flush extra pharmaceuticals down the drain.
