Steve Calvin wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
> >
>
>> Yep, that's how I got rid of my years old hand-me-down dinette set, an
>> ugly
>> lamp and an even more hideous used office chair (don't back up, the
>> castors
>> would fall off!) I set that particular item out with 2 castors
>> sitting in
>> the seat; no doubt in the mind of the scavengers the castors are prone to
>> fall off. Nothing was there the next morning.
>>
>> When I *did* put out an older but running vacuum cleaner because I'd
>> gotten
>> one much lighter-weight with more power and which didn't require those
>> stupid bags, the sign I put on it read: "I WORK. TAKE ME." Voila, it
>> was
>> gone before nightfall.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
>
> I use Freecycle. No setting things out to the curb and someone always
> takes whatever. The thing that I like about it is that most folks that
> have come to pick things up at our house genuinely look like they can
> use it.
> http://www.freecycle.org/
>
We have a semi-retired gentleman here in our town that will come and get
any defunct appliance, vac, or anything in that line. He then repairs
them and sells them for $25.00 each or gives them to people who can't
afford new stuff. For those that don't know about him around here and
put stuff at the curb several of us with trucks scout for him and take
stuff to him. I've been surprised that folks will toss out a perfectly
good appliance just because they're changing their decor. How wasteful!

George