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Started in a driveway with four trucks. Grown into Seattle’s most trusted crew — still local, still family-run, still your neighbors.
Years in Seattle
Five-Star Reviews
Full-Time Crew
Donated or Recycled
Ann and Booker started Junk B Gone out of their house in 1989 with four trucks, a great crew, and a simple idea: show up on time, quote one honest price, and leave the place cleaner than you found it.
Ben met them through a business broker. The timing wasn’t right at first — but a year later, the deal came together. Ann and Booker stayed on for a full year to make sure the transition stuck. They’d spent 30+ years building a million-dollar business from scratch, and they wanted it in good hands.
The handoff was smooth. The reputation stayed intact. And everything that made Junk B Gone great — the pricing, the people, the relationships — carried forward.
Ben had just sold the outpatient physical therapy company he’d grown from 10 practices to 30. He was looking for something local, something hands-on.
Z — Zalalem — was his Uber driver 15 years ago. They hit it off immediately. Ben started hiring him directly for airport runs, cutting out the middleman. They became close friends.
When Z came back from Ethiopia during COVID and needed work, Ben had an idea: “I just bought this junk removal company. Want to partner with me and help run it?”
Z said yes. Today he’s the CEO — running day-to-day operations, hiring, customer bids, fleet maintenance, and making sure every item gets donated or recycled responsibly. If you’ve ever met Z, you already know: the guy is someone you trust the moment you shake his hand.
The big franchise companies quote $99 on the phone, then pile on fees for mattresses, electronics, paint, appliances — the price always goes up. We don’t do that. We come on site, tell you the price, do the job, and that’s what you pay. No gotchas. 666+ five-star reviews don’t happen by accident.
We have 12-14 full-time crew members. Every one of them is someone we’d trust inside our own parents’ house. That’s the standard — if we wouldn’t send them to Grandma’s, they don’t work here.
They show up in full uniform with branded trucks. They take their shoes off when they come inside. They’re careful with your walls, your floors, your doorframes — even when they’re hauling out pianos and hot tubs.
One crew went to a job in North Bend and noticed the customer had a flat tire. They grabbed the air compressor off the truck and pumped it up so she could get to the tire shop. Nobody asked them to do that. That’s just who these guys are.
One price, quoted on site, no hidden fees. No mattress surcharges. No appliance fees. No gotchas. You see the price before we start — and that’s what you pay.
Full uniforms, branded trucks, shoes off at the door. When you open up, you immediately know who we are and that you’re in good hands.
Through our Second Spark Foundation partnership, usable furniture and household goods go to low-income housing. The rest gets recycled — not landfilled.
Our crew gets paid vacation, sick leave, dental, medical, and 100% of their tips. This isn’t a gig — it’s a career. That’s why they care about your stuff like it’s their own.
Three years of hauling other people’s stuff taught us something: most of it doesn’t belong in a landfill.
We started Second Spark Foundation — a registered 501(c)(3) — to give usable items a second life. Furniture goes to low-income housing. Household goods get resold at a discount. And the money funds meals for people in Seattle shelters.
Bins of toys and an electric piano. From an estate cleanout. Instead of the dump, we brought them to kids in a lower-income community. Bobbleheads, Funko Pops, Hot Wheels — boxes of them. It was like Christmas in March. You should have seen their faces.
Ben’s wife Jill is a chef. For 15 years she’s been making gourmet meals for people in Seattle shelters — not cafeteria food, real plated meals. Second Spark extends that mission: donate what we can, sell what we can’t, and use the money to keep feeding people.
Ben’s first day as the new owner: an estate cleanout on Mercer Island. A woman had passed away. Her family took what they wanted, and we took the rest — three truckloads of plates, clothing, furniture, a whole life.
Most of it went to the dump. It didn’t have to.
That day started the question we’re still answering: how do we do this better? How do we give someone’s stuff a second life instead of just throwing it away? Second Spark is the answer.
We just bought a yard in Seattle — solar-powered, completely off-grid. It’s where we park the trucks, stage donations, and store shipping containers for Second Spark. It’s also where we’re building out mattress recycling: separating foam, metal, and wood so they stay out of the landfill.
In five years? More trucks. Satellite locations. A bigger Second Spark operation that helps more people. And the chance for our long-time crew members to step up as managers with a real share of the reward.
But the thing that won’t change: we’re local, we’re your neighbors, and we answer our own phone.
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