What do you do, when you don't have time?

So, heres my dilemma. Between school, work, and trying to keep my g/f happy, I have no time for scrap. Which, wouldn't be too bad...except now my phone/email/facebook are blowing up...so I arrange once a week pick ups that have now left my garage unable to be entered, part of my neighbors garage stuffed, and the back of my truck loaded. I'm beginning to turn people away or tell them theres a pretty long time frame before I can get to them...which I HATE doing for obvious reasons. I know as soon as I get caught up i'll have nothing again...anybody every have this problem? What are some solutions you came up with?

i would work till i cant winter is my busy time i can get 25 hrs sleep week but money i no sleepy

I also have way to much stuff right now and keep on getting more. I have no space to put it and I am worrying about someone calling the city and complaining because my driveway is a mess and the patio is full along with the garage. It bothers me that I need to get it broke down and to the yard. Also dosnt help having to work 6 days in a row. If I call off of work one day i could make more off the scrap than going to work.

Everyone has to rearrange time to be able to do everything. Work and School are pretty much constants but you might have to tell the g/f you can't go out a night or two or she can come over and talk to you while you rearrange. I had to make a scrapyard trip recently on a Saturday and I had lots to do that day so I stayed up late on Friday night and loaded the truck and finished breaking down stuff, and then I got up super early so I could be there when the gates opened and be the first person through. I had been putting this trip off for a long time and eventually I just had to make time to get it done.

Sounds to me like you need to make scrapyard runs without breaking things down quite as much until you get caught back up. Yes, you will lose money, but you will regain your space and your sanity.

take your gf with ya

You need to scraprafice some time and get caught up. I would just do partial breakdowns and take some trips to your yard. Good luck.

Organize organize organize. I built this today for my non ferrous. The steel gets pitched into the trailer. The trailer saves me a ton of time I only need to make about avtrip every 2 or 3 weeks and she will hold 4,000 lbs. The non ferrous I chip away when I can and the bins go when they are full when I'm ready to make a run.

I work 40 to 70 hours a week. I'm married, this is why I don't sit there breaking every little thing down. Id be over run in a week. Motors sealed units transformers go as is. I'm not lazy, I just can't have my house looking like a junk yard. The wife and the city wouldn't have it

Well , I solved this problem by teaching my wife what and how to break stuff down. I work 50 to 70 hours a week now, so, she gets to have the fun job of scrapping. I have been begging her to trade places with me, but she is just having to much fun swinging that 4lb hand sledge.

I pull all nighters. there have been times I am up two straight days in a row scrapping/breaking down scrap.

Orginazation and late nights. You should try to get your g/f interested in scrapping too if you enjoy it, just be sure and have her sign a non compete agreement, just in case things don't work out.

I will agree with getting the girlfriend involved, when i still had a girlfriend she would help me break down scrap and even drive a 2nd truck to the yard. She wasnt interested at first but she was in college and could make more in a weekend with me then at a part time job and we got to spend time together and had some extra cash.

Parrothead, I sincerely hope you mean the 4,000 lbs on the trailer, not on the storage rack! The storage rack is for non ferrous. Obviously the aluminum and lighter items on top. The trailer will hold 4,000; our biggest haul was 4,100 lbs (a lot of 4 drawer lateral file cabts and server racks) generally we'll haul 3,200 to 3,800. Last week was 2850 of steel but had another 700 in non ferrous.

I can show you the scale tix