# What to do with old cookware?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-cookware/486797>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 21, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-cookware/486797 "2009-02-21T00:47:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-cookware/486797/21 "2009-02-23T04:15:51Z")

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If none of the above work for you (and I’d take them to the Sallies or similar) they’d make a great water wheel - wired on to an old bicycle wheel. My dad’s collecting old pots for one himself, hampered only by my mother’s habit of finding other uses for the pots.

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**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-cookware/486797/22 "2009-02-23T14:50:18Z")

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I think I will try to donate it to a domestic violence shelter as recommended by **Oakminster**. Failing that, it will go on craigslist. I feel better knowing it won’t be taking up space in a landfill quite yet!

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