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Who Knew It Was So Hard To GIVE Stuff Away?

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Got a couch and loveseat I no longer want or need. Loaded it up in the trailer yesterday to take to Salvation Army. Called them this morning to make sure they could take it. Nope. Building is closed for repairs. Local charity is full up, no room. Third place, closed down their thrift store, no longer taking donations.

It's 80s style, not worth selling. Not in great shape, but better than junk you'd take to the dump. Great for free if you have a house fire or flood or something where you lose everything.

One more to try, St Vincent De Paul, but they're not open yet today. Might try Goodwill after that.
 
Very common experience. Think about it-the stuff you are trying to donate is 40 year old upholstered furniture, way beyond it's useful life, is very bulky and will probably generate maybe $10-20 each if they are lucky. Plus there is the concern about bedbugs, roaches, etc.

Around here no place will take dining room tables/sets, no matter how nice. Very little demand and again they take a lot of space.

Yard sale (at give away prices) or to the dump is the solution.
 
Furniture is a saturated market. Even furniture stores are usually a dead end business.

Craigslist or facebook the giveaway. But if your area is not densely populated. it will be slow on there as well
 
I have a headboard/footboard and dresser set from the 1960s that may get that treatment. I might even use the wood for a different project.

But this sofa set was largely foam rubber padding/cushions, so ....
 
Neighbor has a cloth couch sitting curbside for weeks now. He's too poor/stupid to get it hauled away. Should at least stash it in the backyard.

Only time I got rid of furniture, I was living in an apartment. Set a vinyl couch out by the dumpster one afternoon. It was gone the next day. I assume a fellow resident confiscated it. I mean, it was long and attractive still, just had some split seams. It was a hand-me-down so I wasn't invested in it.
 
I probably paid $2-300 for it in the late 70s or early 80s and it's been in 4 houses in 2 states. I haven't even sat in it in the last 6 or 7 years, so it was time for it to go. It's got a few flaws and cat claw snags, BUT it wasn't trash. Somebody will get a few more years out of it.
 
SKORPI0 said:
Try giving away CRT or projection TVs. 😉 Thrift shop nearby wouldn't even accept them.
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Last CRT I had was a relatively nice BUT big as a damn house 36 inch Toshiba that Andre the freaking Giant would have needed help lifting.

Worked perfectly with not so much as a scratch and I ultimately had to PAY to have it removed!

Last CRT I was able to get money for was a pretty nice black NEC/ Mitsubishi Diamond-Tron tube 21 inch flat-screen and then only because I found an eccentric rich guy who collects large aperture-grills! (yes really)

Right around the same time I had a 34 inch Sony WEGA (HD 16:9 Trinitron CRT) which fried a mainboard and it also cost me money to get rid of.
 
One of the sites I looked at excluded TVs over 5 years old. That lets out my 'dumb' Toshiba 40" LCD with two or three HDMI ports that I had a hard time finding back then.
 
Captante said:
Last CRT I had was a relatively nice BUT big as a damn house 36 inch Toshiba that Andre the freaking Giant would have needed help lifting.

Worked perfectly with not so much as a scratch and I ultimately had to PAY to have it removed!

Last CRT I was able to get money for was a pretty nice black NEC/ Mitsubishi Diamond-Tron tube 21 inch flat-screen and then only because I found an eccentric rich guy who collects large aperture-grills! (yes really)

Right around the same time I had a 34 inch Sony WEGA (HD 16:9 Trinitron CRT) which fried a mainboard and it also cost me money to get rid of.
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I had a 36 inch wide screen Philips that weighed about a hundred pounds. Excellent image quality but it hogged electricity. When I swapped it out for an LCD I noticed the audio quality was shit, so I got a home theater. Sounds great but now I probably use just as much if not more electricity.

It was this style:

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They obviously dont sell them anymore. I got mine open box at a place in Eugene called Bi-Mart. Cheap. But I had to lug it over to my car and that was a pain.
 
I’m trying to give away my glass chair mats right now from that glass chair mat thread here to facebook marketplace scrubs. Getting pretty close to just taking a hammer to the edges in my driveway and throwing the mess in the trash.
 
repoman0 said:
I’m trying to give away my glass chair mats right now from that glass chair mat thread here to facebook marketplace scrubs. Getting pretty close to just taking a hammer to the edges in my driveway and throwing the mess in the trash.
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Why no more glass chair mats? Did you get the rollerblade wheels for the chairs instead?
 
MrSquished said:
Why no more glass chair mats? Did you get the rollerblade wheels for the chairs instead?
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Yes, I am pretty sure your post in that thread informed me that these rollerblade wheels exist and I finally bought them. The glass mats are nice in theory but somehow always get dirty underneath and are annoying / impossible to clean. I like the blade wheels better, $18 or something on Amazon.
 
repoman0 said:
Yes, I am pretty sure your post in that thread informed me that these rollerblade wheels exist and I finally bought them. The glass mats are nice in theory but somehow always get dirty underneath and are annoying / impossible to clean. I like the blade wheels better, $18 or something on Amazon.
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Cool, glad it worked out.

I wish I heard about those rollerblade chair wheels earlier. I used regular chair wheels on my new floors for like 2 years and you can definitely see a bit of wear where I did. Now both chairs in my office have roller blade wheels. I found out about them early last year, it's amazing the simple shit out there we have no idea about.
 
MrSquished said:
Cool, glad it worked out.

I wish I heard about those rollerblade chair wheels earlier. I used regular chair wheels on my new floors for like 2 years and you can definitely see a bit of wear where I did. Now both chairs in my office have roller blade wheels. I found out about them early last year, it's amazing the simple shit out there we have no idea about.
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Okay someone is supposedly finally coming to get them ten minutes after I bitch about it. He says he wants to use them on carpet, which makes a lot more sense. And any dirt or whatever that gets underneath wouldn’t be so obvious like it is over wood.

But yeah I can’t see these blade wheels damaging my hardwood floors at all, so thanks for pointing them out!
 
nakedfrog said:
I have a 27" Sony Wega that I think is 80 lbs per the specs, bought it new in 2001, planning to keep it for old game consoles.
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My 34 inch Sony WEGA was actually the heaviest TV I've ever owned (at approx 245 lbs) even heavier then the 36 inch Toshiba and the second heaviest I've ever seen behind only my buddies 36 inch WEGA-XBR at close to 300! (but it had a slightly larger screen, fancy cabinet and a home-theater audio system built in)

Worst thing about mine next to it crapping the bed was that there was nowhere to grab it without doing permanent damage to your hands (bottom was all sharp corners) ... at least the larger XBR had handles!
 
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