Pickup, 41 Claire

Since we moved into the House of Bich at the end of July 2010, we have gotten rid of an extraordinary amount of stuff with the help of:

-- Two free township bulk pickups (one in May, one in October)
-- One appointment for a township pickup, $30
-- Two appointments with 1-800-GOT JUNK?, somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 total (this included the removal of an old refrigerator and a "work bench")
-- Rich and Leeza's trip to the township dump

Those include nearly 80 years of accumulated crap in the basement, the carpet we ripped out before we had the wood floors restored, everything we took out of one of the crawl spaces, stuff from the shed, detritus from the walk-in closet upstairs, crap we've accumulated over the years, boxes from stuff we've ("we"=Brooke) bought ...

It's been a lot.

This morning, the township picked up the old sink we destroyed with a sledgehammer, a table from my parents' old kitchen that was nearly 20 years old and had, unfortunately, come down with a case of post-Irene mold, and a lot of shrubbery that we'd cut down before we redid the lawn.

Everything. They took everything.

I love Woodbridge.