I love to look at the stuff intended for college dorms. Got a great buy on
a little purple mini fridge online at Walmart. Only $69! We've been
running out of fridge space partly because I no longer have that freezer and
partly because I now have to stock bottled drinks that I didn't before. I
need cold ones to take when we go to see my dad. So there wasn't enough
room for the cans that we usually drink. This fridge is smaller than my
other little fridge and it fits in the family room. Kind of takes the sting
out of the fact that I was unable to get my long coveted "Eggplant" colored
sofa. Discontinued and although it was available for sale, the place
selling it would not pick up the old one and dispose of it. I had to settle
for a brown one. It will arrive on Thu. And (hopefully this will be true)
I had two people from the store tell me that not only will they dispose of
the old couch but also the other old couch and loveseat in the backhouse! I
would have been happy for them just to have taken this one couch but if they
can take the others, it's like a dream come true!

What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time finding
stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff. And mostly the
ones that do did not have what I was looking for. Like Reclinerland. As
much as I love that store, I am just not into those reclining sofas. Or
Lazy Boy. Most of what they sell is too large scale for my tastes. And too
expensive!

I got a nice milk crate style bin today also in purple for the laundry room.
Now everything is contained. Even the slippers that I keep in there for
those times when I need to run outside really quickly and have no shoes on.
It is a smaller than a standard milk crate but it is the perfect size.

This is also a great time to pick up a new microwave if you need one. We
saw terrific sales on those and also lots of small appliances for the
kitchen, but we don't currently need any of those.

In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> I love to look at the stuff intended for college dorms. Got a great buy on
> a little purple mini fridge online at Walmart. Only $69! We've been
> running out of fridge space partly because I no longer have that freezer and
> partly because I now have to stock bottled drinks that I didn't before. I
> need cold ones to take when we go to see my dad. So there wasn't enough
> room for the cans that we usually drink. This fridge is smaller than my
> other little fridge and it fits in the family room. Kind of takes the sting
> out of the fact that I was unable to get my long coveted "Eggplant" colored
> sofa. Discontinued and although it was available for sale, the place
> selling it would not pick up the old one and dispose of it. I had to settle
> for a brown one. It will arrive on Thu. And (hopefully this will be true)
> I had two people from the store tell me that not only will they dispose of
> the old couch but also the other old couch and loveseat in the backhouse! I
> would have been happy for them just to have taken this one couch but if they
> can take the others, it's like a dream come true!
>
> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time finding
> stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff. And mostly the
> ones that do did not have what I was looking for. Like Reclinerland. As
> much as I love that store, I am just not into those reclining sofas. Or
> Lazy Boy. Most of what they sell is too large scale for my tastes. And too
> expensive!
>
> I got a nice milk crate style bin today also in purple for the laundry room.
> Now everything is contained. Even the slippers that I keep in there for
> those times when I need to run outside really quickly and have no shoes on.
> It is a smaller than a standard milk crate but it is the perfect size.
>
> This is also a great time to pick up a new microwave if you need one. We
> saw terrific sales on those and also lots of small appliances for the
> kitchen, but we don't currently need any of those.

it's actually sad that you think the best time to buy is during a
seasonal or event sale, rather than after.

offer your couch on freecycle

On 7/29/2013 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time finding
> stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff.

I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you can
get delivery for a price. I'm lucky in that my refuge pickup will take
furniture provided it doesn't have any glass, like glass topped tables.
I only had to have my brother help me move mine to the curb.

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On 7/29/2013 11:43 PM, Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:

> offer your couch on freecycle

I offered mine there first. You have to be honest about the condition
so that people don't waste their time. Mine is from a household with
cats, but non-smoking. Even when I smoked I didn't smoke indoors. They
were seriously covered with cat fur on the back, the part that I didn't
vacuum all the time. No one responded.
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"Cheryl" > wrote in message
eb.com...
> On 7/29/2013 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time finding
>> stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff.
>
> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years old.
> I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you can get
> delivery for a price. I'm lucky in that my refuge pickup will take
> furniture provided it doesn't have any glass, like glass topped tables. I
> only had to have my brother help me move mine to the curb.

Really? I find that odd, but I haven't bought furniture for about 5 years
now. They have always delivered and hauled the old couches and love seats
away, from Breuners to our local stores. Did they change in recent years?

Cheri

On 7/30/2013 1:13 AM, Cheri wrote:
> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
> eb.com...
>> On 7/29/2013 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time finding
>>> stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff.
>>
>> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
>> old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you
>> can get delivery for a price. I'm lucky in that my refuge pickup will
>> take furniture provided it doesn't have any glass, like glass topped
>> tables. I only had to have my brother help me move mine to the curb.
>
> Really? I find that odd, but I haven't bought furniture for about 5
> years now. They have always delivered and hauled the old couches and
> love seats away, from Breuners to our local stores. Did they change in
> recent years?
>
> Cheri

Maybe it's a locality thing, but the furniture store I went to and asked
about my old stuff told me that none of them do that.


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Cheryl wrote:
> On 7/29/2013 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time
>> finding stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff.
>
> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
> old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you
> can get delivery for a price. I'm lucky in that my refuge pickup
> will take furniture provided it doesn't have any glass, like glass
> topped tables. I only had to have my brother help me move mine to
> the curb.

Mine *might* take it. Not sure. I can call and get extra stuff taken for a
fee. The problem would be getting it to the curb. The couch that I
currently have is horribly heavy. It has a queen sized bed in it. It used
to belong to my parents and is nothing I ever would have chosen.

The couch I had when Angela was born got wrecked on the first day that I had
it. I didn't know it but a staple came loose from it and tore the fabric.
I did stitch it back up but it never looked the same. And then of course
Angela did a number on it in a variety of ways prior to age 4.

My parents bought me the set that I loved. Couch and loveseat that are in
the back house. They are beautiful. Cream color with mauve flowers. Very
comfortable too. Part of the problem? It was only $250 for the set. So
you can imagine how well they held up. I did expect as such but with a
young child I did not want anything expensive. She did do a number on the
couch right away too. Involved scissors and an pen. You can imagine how
livid I became when her pre-K teacher told me that she needed more
experience using scissors. Oh no she did not! So much so that I had hidden
all of the scissors at home The final straw came when the stitching just
became undone. And it was not the type of design where you could use a
cover over it.

Now that I think of it, neither is the new one but... I really dislike the
slipcover look that we have now. It is a fitted one and when I sit down on
it, it's fine. But seemingly when anyone else sits on it, the cover becomes
disloged and then it just looks even crappier than it did with the cover!
At any rate, the new one isn't expensive either. It's pretty much almost
the bottom of the barrel in price in terms of something I could get
delivered and also have the old one picked up. There was one cheaper at
another store but neither Angela or I liked it. Was just too old fashioned
looking for our tastes.

We did see a lot of stuff that we liked at Big Lots but I don't think they
deliver and then of course there is the pick up.

Another thing I have noticed is that in terms of color of furniture, most of
it is some shade of brown! Bleh. The next most popular color seems to be
sage green. Even more bleh IMO. Followed then by grey or slate blue. I
just could not find a color that I wanted anywhere. So, brown it is. At
least it will fit in this room since the only other pieces of furniture are
a light brown and a leopard print of light and dark brown. Accents are
purple, gold and green. That'll have to do.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 7/29/2013 11:43 PM, Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:
>
>> offer your couch on freecycle
>
> I offered mine there first. You have to be honest about the condition
> so that people don't waste their time. Mine is from a household with
> cats, but non-smoking. Even when I smoked I didn't smoke indoors. They
> were seriously covered with cat fur on the back, the part that I
> didn't vacuum all the time. No one responded.

Nobody would take this couch. Plus... As I said in the other post, it is
so heavy, there is no way I could get it anywhere. Not even out the door.

My old couch that we got rid of on Staten Island, for as bad as it was did
at least have one redeeming quality. It had a super comfortable double bed
in it. This one has the Seinfeld type bar in the back Queen bed. Oh how
that bed brought back bad memories. I had the double bed growing up. Not
my choice. But when I decided to buy the white French Provencial canopy bed
set from Sears (with my own money) when I was in the 3rd grade, my parents
insisted that I get a double bed so that I could use their old mattress.
Then because I had the bigger bed, every time we had company, they got to
stay in my room and I got the back breaking bed. I would beg them. Please!
Just let me sleep on the COUCH! Not the BED! But, no. The memories of
that were so bad that when we moved back here and had to stay with them, we
had sleeping bags shipped to their house. Angela and I slept on the floor.

My husband said we were making a big deal out of it and he'd sleep on the
bed. I was like... Fine! Whatever. You'll see! But I think what they
wound up doing was taking the mattress from my dad's bed and putting it over
that in an attempt to make it more comfortable.

Cheri wrote:
> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
> eb.com...
>> On 7/29/2013 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time
>>> finding stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff.
>>
>> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
>> old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you
>> can get delivery for a price. I'm lucky in that my refuge pickup
>> will take furniture provided it doesn't have any glass, like glass
>> topped tables. I only had to have my brother help me move mine to
>> the curb.
>
> Really? I find that odd, but I haven't bought furniture for about 5
> years now. They have always delivered and hauled the old couches and
> love seats away, from Breuners to our local stores. Did they change
> in recent years?

Apparently so. When we got the new set when we lived on Staten Island, we
didn't even ask about haul away because we needed the bed that was in the
old couch. We actually only ever needed to use it once for guests but many
people had said they would come to visit and didn't. Getting rid of it
there was not a problem. My husband just hauled it up by the trash cans and
they took it.

I knew there was a potential problem when my parents got a new rocking chair
from Lazy Boy. They asked about delivery and the woman said they would also
haul away the old one (I think for an additional fee) and that most places
wouldn't do that. Then when we got my husband a new recliner as a
retirement gift, we learned that this was true. Places like Sears will not
take the old one. We learned even more when we went into some stores
looking for a couch. Not only do some places not deliver but very few will
pick up. And some that used to pick up, won't do it now. There is one
place that advertises that they give superior customer service. That was
the place that claimed they had the couch that I want coming in on July 28.
Two of them. I found this suspect because nobody else had it in stock and
when I called the company that makes it, they said that it had been
discontinued. So not only do they not haul away but they don't even know
anyone who will do it for a fee.

I also know that it is very common in this area for people to put old
furniture outside. Sometimes with a sign that says "Free" on it. I guess
they are hoping that someone will take it but from the looks of it, they
rarely do.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 7/30/2013 1:13 AM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
>> eb.com...
>>> On 7/29/2013 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> What do people do who buy new furniture? I had a heck of a time
>>>> finding stores that deliver and will also take away the old stuff.
>>>
>>> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
>>> old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you
>>> can get delivery for a price. I'm lucky in that my refuge pickup
>>> will take furniture provided it doesn't have any glass, like glass
>>> topped tables. I only had to have my brother help me move mine to
>>> the curb.
>>
>> Really? I find that odd, but I haven't bought furniture for about 5
>> years now. They have always delivered and hauled the old couches and
>> love seats away, from Breuners to our local stores. Did they change
>> in recent years?
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Maybe it's a locality thing, but the furniture store I went to and
> asked about my old stuff told me that none of them do that.

It is odd because I think almost all of the appliace places will take the
old appliances. And the mattress places will usually take the old
mattresses. What do they think we will do with the old stuff?

My nephew has a truck but we just don't have the manpower to lift all this
heavy stuff.

On 7/30/2013 1:13 AM, Cheri wrote:
> "Cheryl" > wrote

>> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
>> old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you
>> can get delivery for a price.

> Really? I find that odd, but I haven't bought furniture for about 5
> years now. They have always delivered and hauled the old couches and
> love seats away, from Breuners to our local stores. Did they change in
> recent years?

Wow, I have never encountered a furniture store that would take
away your old stuff. The exception is mattresses. It would be
very convenient if they would do so.

My town has bulk pickup a couple of times a month so I just have
to get it to the curb. Otherwise I would need to call some
hunks with a truck type of service.

nancy

In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> Cheryl wrote:
> > On 7/29/2013 11:43 PM, Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:
> >
> >> offer your couch on freecycle
> >
> > I offered mine there first. You have to be honest about the condition
> > so that people don't waste their time. Mine is from a household with
> > cats, but non-smoking. Even when I smoked I didn't smoke indoors. They
> > were seriously covered with cat fur on the back, the part that I
> > didn't vacuum all the time. No one responded.
>
> Nobody would take this couch.

of course, so why try


Plus... As I said in the other post, it is
> so heavy, there is no way I could get it anywhere. Not even out the door.

if you give it away free, it becomes the recipients responsibility to
move it.

any more excuses?



>
> My old couch that we got rid of on Staten Island, for as bad as it was did
> at least have one redeeming quality. It had a super comfortable double bed
> in it. This one has the Seinfeld type bar in the back Queen bed. Oh how
> that bed brought back bad memories. I had the double bed growing up. Not
> my choice. But when I decided to buy the white French Provencial canopy bed
> set from Sears (with my own money) when I was in the 3rd grade, my parents
> insisted that I get a double bed so that I could use their old mattress.
> Then because I had the bigger bed, every time we had company, they got to
> stay in my room and I got the back breaking bed. I would beg them. Please!
> Just let me sleep on the COUCH! Not the BED! But, no. The memories of
> that were so bad that when we moved back here and had to stay with them, we
> had sleeping bags shipped to their house. Angela and I slept on the floor.
>
> My husband said we were making a big deal out of it and he'd sleep on the
> bed. I was like... Fine! Whatever. You'll see! But I think what they
> wound up doing was taking the mattress from my dad's bed and putting it over
> that in an attempt to make it more comfortable.

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> On 7/30/2013 1:13 AM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Cheryl" > wrote
>
>>> I recently replaced my living room furniture that was about 12 years
>>> old. I was told very few places will remove your old stuff, but you
>>> can get delivery for a price.
>
>> Really? I find that odd, but I haven't bought furniture for about 5
>> years now. They have always delivered and hauled the old couches and
>> love seats away, from Breuners to our local stores. Did they change in
>> recent years?
>
> Wow, I have never encountered a furniture store that would take
> away your old stuff. The exception is mattresses. It would be
> very convenient if they would do so.
>
> My town has bulk pickup a couple of times a month so I just have
> to get it to the curb. Otherwise I would need to call some
> hunks with a truck type of service.

We do have bulk pickup but I don't know the particulars other than that it
must be arranged and we have to pay extra. It's getting it to the curb
that's the problem.

I have found someone who has manpower and will haul away stuff for us for a
fee. He's the neighbor of a person from the dance studio. That will have
to wait though. Still waiting on that money we are owed and I just ordered
a new computer desk so want to get that set up and this one out of here
first.