Paper can be burned when the garage gets emptied the last time…
Just burn the whole damn thing! 
@BunsenBurner’s torches the shed in her own personal version of the Burning Man ending day bonfire. We’ll call it Bunsen Man.
The Bunsen Burning Man… love that! B-)
You guys are cracking me up!
I’m just thinking that in order to dump all that weight you had to load it into something - that’s a lot of lifting!
Not just load - carry it all the way from the shed to the truck. Someone got a crapload of exercise! 
Another plug here for Freecycle. I’m amazed at what people will take.
Expecting no replies, I posted an ad on Freecycle:
I have two people who want it!!
I went in a mini shopping spree last week - picking up a few new pairs of leggings (my dogs jump up on me and snag them, so constantly replacing,) a pair of jeans and several long sleeve tee’s - so bagged up 3 pair of jeans I haven’t worn in several years, several tops and some sweaters I’m done with. Gave bag to my friend who volunteers with a refugee resettlement program.
Next week I’m moving fall/winter clothes from guest room closet to my bedroom closet and spring/summer to GR closet and will do more weeding on both ends.
I have high hopes for this weekend. Our community is having hard to recycle/chemical collection on Saturday and I hope to take some of the paint cans and things from our garage that should not go into the trash. I fear that I will spend hours waiting in line to drop off our things, but since there is a fee, maybe not. Either way, I’m willing to wait to get rid of this stuff. Progress!
Our local paint stores take old cans of paint free to recycle. Even when the paint is another brand.
Our recycling/garbage company takes cans that have been opened and dried out.
Other products need to go to the main recycling station for a fee.
Thinking about ripping out the built in shelving in the den… putting some glass door cases to minimize dusting of whatever minimalistic stuff we will put there. I hate open shelves. My mom had walls of books, and I despised the annual “ritual” of dusting of the books. Taking them out one by one, wiping them off and shaking the dust out, then wiping the shelves, then putting the books back up in their spots… I swore I would never accumulate a home library.
^^^^Yech. Waste of time.
I love my home library. I guess I missed the memo that one had to do all of that. When I lend a book to a friend , if it’s dusty, I just kind of blow the dust off.
I think we all had families that were different. No annual spring cleaning at my house.
I took four boxes of Paint/chemicals to the hard to recycle collection point this weekend. There was a long line of cars but they kept it moving. I called the two major paint stores in our area and neither one accepts paint for recycling. I was happy to get that much out of the garage, but it was a collection of random things from various shelves so no immediate impact. Since the garage is really DH’s domain he will need to reorganize and make better use of the space. That will never happen, but at least we’ve removed some of the hard to recycle items.
I continue to be amazed at the amount of things I have removed from our house. I’m hoping to find time this winter to reorganize inside and maybe I will notice some improvement. In the meantime…a bag a week.
Do you think we’ve filled a “junk yard” full of stuff yet with what we’ve all taken out of our homes?!!!
I think @BunsenBurner alone made a pretty big dent in filling that junk yard with her stuff measured in fractions of a ton!
A small correction: it was Mr. B who filled the junk yard with his leftover building materials. I think I only added a couple of ceramic flower pots that could not be reused and a small old rug.
Now we have a “new” garage filled with his stuff that needs to be put away. I think buying that tesla will motivate him to organize it quickly. How did I manage to organize my shoes without a major purchase?
I am temporarily a member of the Bag-a-Day Club, although that’s probably going to end this weekend. But then need to be resumed.
BunsenBurner, we have a large-ish library on open shelves and have never had a problem with dusting them. I have probably dusted them twice in 25 years. (Oh, uh, never mind, probably not very persuasive!)
A friend of mine and I discussed adding sheds to each of our yards. Then we figured what would inevitably follow: A yard dotted with storage sheds. Have not put any in yet.