>There's lots of reasons that you have beyond the normal amount of garbage or difficult to deal with garbage. It's really hard to get it removed if you need it on a short notice.

Why not use 1-800-GOT-JUNK or a similar service?

Apps are the "1-800-cheesy-mnemonic" for the new generation.

it is 100% the same formula. Start by hiding your real cost in weird price schemes. Advertise like crazy. ???. Profit.

It is a proven method. And it revamped for every generation. 1-800, app, "as seen on tv", catalogs, etc. And now you have subscription services of tangible goods for the millennials.

Weird price schemes are easy to cover up when a lot of your service fee handles the loading and recycling of said junk.

Although I laugh at the name, there's no one else doing anything like 1-800-Got-Junk for overrun garages, overcrowded basement storage, etc.

The only thing I notice is that each region has a 1-800-Got-Junk operating under a different name.

It's also not a subscription service (?)

That's the first thing I thought, doesn't this exist? Side note, the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK was on an interesting episode of NPR's "How I Built This" podcast (http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=523277830:523967624).

Just got a new bed (online order) a couple months ago, and paid a service to take the old one away... we have curbside pickup, but only a few times a year, so needed to pay the $90. I wound up shopping around as there was a range of $90-170 to retrieve a mattress and box. There's definitely room for on demand services for that... especially in larger populated areas.

Yup, this is a service that already exists in very informal ways. Check craigslist for "trash and junk removal".

Having had a garage I recently organized and about a pickup load full of trash/recyclables I would have absolutely loved such a service vs. trying to find someone non-flaky on CL to actually show up when they said they would.

That's what I did when I moved back from SF => NYC. But it occupied a few hours of my time to send emails, wait for responses, try to negotiate time / price. Time I did not have. If I could open a spend 10 minutes, it would be worthwhile in some situations.

I have had good luck getting rid of old things by posting them for free on Craigslist and leaving them outside. If it's at all usable someone usually comes by within an hour or two.

It's what I generally do. Because reuse > recycle... but sometimes you don't have time to worry about craiglist.

Freecycle works pretty well too.