By STU CLAMPITT
This Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the O. V. Winks building at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 2003 Pleasant St., Noblesville, will be the site of a massive indoor garage sale filled only with the most desirable items. The Garage Organizers are holding their first Hamilton County event in a 4,000 square-foot space that, according to Garage Organizers Representative Brandon Brooks, will be the equivalent of more than 25 garage sales in one.
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“This will be our first event at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds,” Brooks told The Reporter. “If you think of the traffic at a normal garage sale, we have 25 to 35 clients’ worth of stuff that we are going to be selling. The item we sell are items we choose that we are confident we can sell. We don’t do Christmas decorations. We don’t have full tables of glassware. It’s all tools and good quality items that we believe we can sell. The building it going to be pretty full.”
This garage sale event is a secondary component of The Garage Organizers business. Their primary function is, not surprisingly, organizing garage storage. If your garage is too full, these are the professionals who can help you find all the space you have been missing.
“We will pull up in a 26-foot box truck and we will take out all the stuff in the garage so we have a blank slate,” Brooks said. “We remove all the trash. All the items that the client no longer wants but they don’t want in the trash, those items we barcode and sell on the client’s behalf. Once all that is in the truck, we set up shelving, overhead storage units, peg boards and just about anything you can think of for garage storage. Then we organize all the items the client wants to keep back into the garage for them.”
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The unwanted items are then sold on the client’s behalf at events like the one this weekend, which helps people get money back long after their garages have been organized.
“Within a couple months they usually get back a quarter or more of what they paid for the garage organization just from us selling the products they no longer wanted,” Brooks said.
This process starts with an on-site consultation where professional will measure, photograph and assess the client’s needs. According to Brooks, that consultation will be within one to two days of the first phone call or email.
“We have employees all over the state that can cover all of central and southern Indiana,” Brooks said. “We also cover Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio. We can usually get someone booked to do the project within a week to a week and a half. As spring is coming up, we will be pretty full. But even this week, after all the snow and ice, we have clients booked every single day this week.”
If you have a full storage unit you have been renting, The Garage Organizers can help you get rid of that monthly bill as well.
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“We also offer a service where we clean out your storage unit, bring the contents back to your garage and organize that into your garage,” Brooks said. “Often, people will get rid of 50 percent of the stuff they were storing for years in that storage unit, and we can easily organize 50 percent of the storage until into the garage, which saves them $150 to $200 a month on storage unit rent.”
You can book a consultation online at TheGarageOrganizers.com, on Facebook at Facebook.com/garageorganizing, or on the phone at (812) 642-7243. You can email for more information at info@TheGarageOrganizers.com.