Happy Hauler

01/09/2026

✨ 2025 was a BIG year for Happy Hauler ✨

We launched our nonprofit Hauling with Heart to help fill the gap left by the closure of Humble by Design and what this community helped make possible still blows us away.

Before 2025, we were able to support about one family per month. This year we helped over ONE HUNDRED families move into fully furnished homes. 🤍♥️

Every home would have cost roughly $3,500 to furnish new. Instead, these items came from community members who chose Happy Hauler. We also helped families avoid overwhelming moving costs, saving as estimated $150,000+ along the way.

And the impact didn’t stop there ♻️
Each furnished home diverted about 1.5 tons from local landfills, turning donations into dignity and waste into hope.

We’re endlessly grateful for our clients and neighbors and the trust you place in us. Here’s to even more heart, impact, and neighbors helping neighbors in 2026 🎊

01/08/2026

The journey of a day at Happy Hauler. Starting off at Marys Place! Dropping off children's & adult clothes. Then we loaded surplus bed sheets from them to share with our network and to be given to their clients with the Mary's Place Make-A-Home program. We've dispersed 120 sets of these bed sheets to their clients already!

Then shared some of these with our friends at Furniture Repair Bank to supply to all who they help in the community. We also gave them a massive mango wood table which will be their new fabric cutting station when repairing and repurposing furniture!

We had too many king sheets (which are too big for transition housing) so we dropped off those and some other household items off Evergreen Goodwill . Btw, Goodwill has a great system of giving Marys Place gift cards, when they give them some of their surplus donations. Gift cards for Marys Place to share with their clients.

We then returned to the warehouse with 80 sets sheets, and then packed up a home for a Marys Place family referral! They were quite far away, in South Federal way. Unfortunately the farther you are from Seattle, the longer it takes to get help.....But not if Happy Hauler gets wind of it! We cleaned the jobs off one schedule as this is a half day event. They would not be sleeping on the floor tonight! We got them furniture, beds, household goods and of course fresh bed sheets! Even a cute vanity for the daughter. They were thrilled!!!

It’s a constant collaboration of many for the benefit of all.

01/05/2026

Another Marys Place make a home program completed! Happy Hauler teaming up and .malloch from and .westseattle to make a home for a family. A beautiful collaboration of Partners that care for all of our diverse community.
Thank you Pacific Urban Investors for donating your model homes to make this happen.
The big reveal was amazing. Mom was all smiles, and some tears of joy.
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12/31/2025

Supporting the community while we work. Nothing more fun than that! Storage clean out in Capital Hill.

The client hired us because of our work furnishing the homes of the clients of R.E.S.T. (Real Escape S*x Trade). So of course the first thing I did after this job was to contact R.E.S.T, as we have some great items to deliver to their clients as they rebuild their lives. Together, lets make this world a better place for all.

12/26/2025

Helping a couple more families right before Christmas! Mom and all children were sleeping on the floor. The more I do these the more I see the social economic disparities for many of the minorities in our communities. We are going to do everything we can to give you and your kids a fair shot at a happy and fulfilling life. You rightfully deserve this, the same as everybody else.
Thank you Linda with and with for hiring us. A bunch of your clients items helped supply these families with furnished Homes.

12/24/2025

Helping furnish another Mary's Place Family! .
Helping Mom to be have a furnished home! I've been hoarding Christmas trees for the last 6 months just to be able to do this for every family right now. Hehe
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12/24/2025

Helping another Mary's Place Family!
Make a Home Program. Young parents with three very young kiddos all sleeping on the floor! We got their home fully furnished. All household essentials, childrens toys and even a Christmas tree! This one was a lot of fun! Dad was soooo happy he could barely contain himself. The team was half way down the hall departing, and heard him loudly crying out in joy. Such a warm way to end the day!

12/04/2025

The inception of Hauling with Heart: Seeing Humble by Design shut down was a dagger to my heart. I had to do something as that was an absolute lifeline. Furnishing the homes of those that have nothing. No money and no logistics to get it home. A majority being D/V victims, who escaped with a bag and their children. I hoped to scale the 1 home/month we were doing to that of 169 homes Humble be Design furnished over its 3 years of operation. Since getting a warehouse on March 1st, we are on track to fully furnish 175 or more homes our first year! Blazing at 3x the speed! I blindly went into this with no funding, and have somehow managed not to bankrupt my business so far. But I cannot slow it down. These people just want to live happy productive lives like everyone else. They just need a little help to get there. But they are in a pivotal moment. As helping right now will directly affect the trajectory of their lives.

Two recent stories:

D/V survivor and her daughters that has been in a nearly empty home for weeks, all sleeping on the floor. Mom was trying to pick up the piece and do what she can. Which unfortunately, was limited to proving food and some clothing. CPS was doing a follow up that afternoon. Potential separating the family that day, as the children were not in adequate living conditions for prolonged time. We sprang to action and fully furnished that home that morning, and kept that family together.

D/V survivor sleeping in empty unit, sleeping on two dog beds with her daughter. You could see the pain in her eyes and she was uneasy. She could not hold eye contact with me or shake my hand. I knew this ahead of time so I had a female team member with me for her. When we unveiled her home. Fully furnished, and even stocked the kitchen with food she was absolutely hysterical. It was like she didn't even know how to process this emotion that had been alien to her for so long. She had hope. Her legs gave out twice. She went right into my employees arms and she held her as she sobbed and sobbed.

Thank you all for the support so far. Hope to make hundreds more stories like this in the future.

12/04/2025

The inception of Hauling with Heart. Seeing Humble by Design shut down was a dagger to my heart. I had to do something as it was an absolute lifeline. Furnishing the homes of those that have nothing. No money and no logistics to get it home. A majority being D/V victims, who escaped with a bag and their children. I hoped to scale the 1 home/month we were doing to that of 169 homes Humble be Design furnished over its 3 years of operation. Since getting a warehouse on March 1st, we are on track to fully furnish 175 or more homes our first year! Blazing at 3x the speed! I blindly went into this with no funding, and have somehow managed not to bankrupt my business so far. But I cannot slow it down. These people just want to live happy productive lives like everyone else. They just need a little help to get there. But they are in a pivotal moment. As helping right now will directly affect the trajectory of their lives.

Two recent stories:

D/V survivor and her daughters that has been in a nearly empty home for weeks, all sleeping on the floor. Mom was trying to pick up the piece and do what she can. Which unfortunately, was limited to proving food and some clothing. CPS was doing a follow up that afternoon. Potential separating the family that day, as the children were not in adequate living conditions for prolonged time. We sprang to action and fully furnished that home that morning, and kept that family together.

D/V survivor sleeping in empty unit, sleeping on two dog beds with her daughter. You could see the pain in her eyes and she was uneasy. She could not hold eye contact with me or shake my hand. I knew this ahead of time so I had a female team member with me for her. When we unveiled her home. Fully furnished, and even stocked the kitchen with food she was absolutely hysterical. It was like she didn't even know how to process this emotion that had been alien to her for so long. She had hope. Her legs gave out twice. She went right into my employees arms and she held her as she sobbed and sobbed.

Thank you all for the support so far. Hope to make hundreds more stories like this in the future.
Seeing Humble by Design shut down was a dagger to my heart. I had to do something as it was an absolute lifeline. Furnishing the homes of those that have nothing. No money and no logistics to get it home. A majority being D/V victims, who escaped with a bag and their children. I hoped to scale the 1 home/month we were doing to that of 169 homes Humble be Design furnished over its 3 years of operation. Since getting a warehouse on March 1st, we are on track to fully furnish 175 or more homes our first year! Blazing at 3x the speed! I blindly went into this with no funding, and have somehow managed not to bankrupt my business so far. But I cannot slow it down. These people just want to live happy productive lives like everyone else. They just need a little help to get there. But they are in a pivotal moment. As helping right now will directly affect the trajectory of their lives.

Two recent stories:

D/V survivor and her daughters that has been in a nearly empty home for weeks, all sleeping on the floor. Mom was trying to pick up the piece and do what she can. Which unfortunately, was limited to proving food and some clothing. CPS was doing a follow up that afternoon. Potential separating the family that day, as the children were not in adequate living conditions for prolonged time. We sprang to action and fully furnished that home that morning, and kept that family together.

D/V survivor sleeping in empty unit, sleeping on two dog beds with her daughter. You could see the pain in her eyes and she was uneasy. She could not hold eye contact with me or shake my hand. I knew this ahead of time so I had a female team member with me for her. When we unveiled her home. Fully furnished, and even stocked the kitchen with food she was absolutely hysterical. It was like she didn't even know how to process this emotion that had been alien to her for so long. She had hope. Her legs gave out twice. She went right into my employees arms and she held her as she sobbed and sobbed.

Thank you all for the support so far. Hope to make hundreds more stories like this in the future.

Clear out unwanted items and enjoy a clutter-free space—while making a positive impact on your community and the environment. A cleaner home, a greener planet, and a happier you!

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11/27/2025

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11/27/2025

When not donating furniture, we are donating Blood! One pint today! A pint donated can save 3 lives! Give back to your community. John - Happy Hauler.