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I second the CRT TV thing-here, no charity organization will take them…also older computers. What you also see is coffee makers-why anyone would buy an old one is beyond me. OLd CB radios are now showing up in antique shops-along with 45 RPM records, old encyclopedias, sewing machines.
As an aside, there is a shop in my town where a guy sells used hand tools-he asks insane prices for old, worn-out junk. I once wanted to buy a hammer (mine had a broken handle)-he was asking maybe 10% less than the price of a new hammer.
He’s got tons of old bit and brace drills-many in excellent condition-does anybody se these anymore?
Heh - we have a 13 inch tube-based TV that I tried to donate to Goodwill - they didn’t want it.
I have seen restrictions on computers.
CRT TV’s make sense since the switch to digital TV, there are so many TV’s that people need to get rid of.
I have a 5 disc home theatre with the speakers. Crickets on Craigslist and my local pawn shop wouldn’t even take it. I suppose I could try eBay but it would be expensive to ship. Can’t imagine anybody wanting to pay that much for it.
TVs have toxic chemicals which require special handling, so it costs money to dispose of them. That doesn’t stop me from dumping broken monitors into the trash, though.
I was about to chime in with used toilet paper, but that’s not very functional. (Unless you fold it just right…)
I put one out by the street with a sign that said “FREE!” and it was gone in an hour.
OMG… Does the boom box work? Have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UVjOoJaWGo
I would love to have an old boom box that I didn’t care about! I’d even wire in the other speakers and set up an entire danceline!
Put up a picture of it on any homesteading site as something that can be converted to raise pigs or used as a play house for in a goat pen.
I bet you’d have someone hauling it out of there in no time. If you were near me, I’d pick it up.
For those with speakers and phones… post on alternate energy sites, some people want them for the magnets. Other people will take them to attempt to pull the metals out of them or reuse some of the circuits in their projects.
Are you serious? This is an old steel desk, gunmetal gray, the kind they had in government offices in the 40’s and 50’s. One person can’t even lift a corner of the darn thing.
If you’re in central Iowa, I’ll put your name on it!
Some vacuum tubes used to be fantastically expensive, like the 7591A before the prices it they were fetching were noticed (even unmatched ones testing weak were going for over $75.00) and they were put back into production again. But old TV type tubes, especially for series string sets are absolutely worthless.
CRT monitors. I have a 19" ViewSonic monitor that I haven’t been able to get anyone to take. I may have finally put it in the trash.
Sofas are tough. I tried to sell a well-made, recently reupholstered, clean queen sleeper. No luck. I finally gave it away to a couple who were looking for something for the husband’s “man cave.”
Best Buy will also take monitors and TVs up to 30". You have to pay them $10 per screen but they hand you a $10 Best Buy gift card in exchange (per screen).
They get donated and disappear fairly regularly at one thrift store near me. I saw that they had several, went in to buy one and they were gone, but they have more now (of course - now I’ve bought a crappy one from Target).
Last time I checked, probably a year ago, Salvation Army in Chicago would still take CRT TVs.
I had heard of people going to junkyards to find older high capacity toilets, since apparently they can’t be bought new any more due to low flow toilet restrictions. Is that just an urban myth?
Readers Digest condensed books, the hard cover types are not accepted at any thrift store I know of (unless they get snuck in under other books) and are not accepted at any used book store “Friends of the Public Library”, book sale or anything.
Of course the old style monitors and tvs are worthless… beyond worthless. People on craigslist in vancouver are PAYING people to take them away. Big old couches take for ever to move here, because everyone has tiny little apartments.
Nobody wants silver plated tea services. If it is a decent quality silver, maybe they will take them for the melt value, but if it is plate it just sits. I’d kind of like some of the silver that’s been in my family for generations, but I have no where to store it and the idea of polishing it even once a year makes my hands flare up with itchiness.
Used box graters never seem to sell in thrift stores. They get surface rust, nothing serious that a bit of steel wool and a light coating of olive oil can’t fix but no one wants them.
Yes, you can donate ripped, torn or otherwise damaged clothes to charities, and they’ll turn into rags or insulation for houses in Africa (I think I read that) or otherwise get recycled.
When my brother remodeled a home in Michigan, he drove into Canada to get the super-flushing throne for his bathroom.