A garage fills up one decision at a time, usually the decision to deal with it later. Later is a weekend, a plan, and one bin in the driveway. Here is the plan part.
Friday: stage it
Book your bin for Friday delivery so it is sitting there when Saturday starts. For a single garage, a 10-yard bin, which holds about three pickup-truck loads, is almost always right; a double garage that has not been cleared in a decade earns a 15-yard. The bin size guide settles any doubt. Have the driver place it close to the garage door; every metre of carrying distance matters by the fiftieth trip.
Saturday morning: everything out
Do not sort inside the garage. Pull everything onto the driveway and lawn in rough zones: tools, sports gear, seasonal, mystery boxes. An empty garage makes the keep decisions honest, because you can see exactly how much space you actually have.
Saturday afternoon: the three-pile sort
Keep goes back in only if it has a home on a shelf or hook. Donate covers anything working and decent: donation centres want tools, bikes, and furniture far more than you would guess. Bin takes the rest: broken furniture, scrap lumber, dried-up cans of things that are not paint (paint itself goes to your municipal hazardous waste depot, not the bin; our accepted items rundown has the full list).
Sunday: load smart, finish clean
Flat and heavy items on the bin floor, broken-down bulky pieces next, loose junk filling the corners, everything level with the rim. Sunday evening, the garage has a floor again and the pile has a bin around it.
Monday: we take it from here
Our standard rental is 5 days with 1 metric tonne included, so a weekend project has margin on both ends. Book pickup and the whole episode disappears without a single dump run.
Garage season is busy from spring onward, so book a few days ahead. Start at residential bin rentals, or find local pricing on your town's page, whether that is Brooklin, Stouffville, or anywhere else under service areas.
