How Do You Get Rid of Mattress and Boxspring, and Other Old Furniture?

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If the mattress is not in usable condition, contact your garbage hauler and they will remove it for a fee I think it is around $35, but I have not checked in awhile. If you are buying a new mattress to replace it, you might be able to negotiate removal of the old one as part of the sale. Goodwill cannot take it for legal reasons and technically, it is not legal to sell it, although lots of people do.

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I donate stuff (like the lamp and coffee table) or have a yard sale; you could also try Craisgslist (just be sure to ask for CASH only!). If it is good enough, but not really worth anything, I put it at the end of our driveway with a big FREE sign on it. I don't think anyone takes used mattresses as donations; if you aren't getting a new bed with a free take away offer, the other option is the dump.

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If you live in S.F., I believe you get two free pickups a years for oversized junk via your local garbage company.. Call them and find out, I am pretty sure..

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When you go to buy a new mattress most mattress places will offer to haul away your old one for free. I've dropped couches and coffee tables off at the goodwill or St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Stores.

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Always try freecycle-- it is AMAZING what others can find use for!

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www.craigslist.com
List everything in the free section. Its a great way to get rid of unwanted items and a great way to get stuff that you need. Someone may be looking for exactly what you have.

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Craigs list has a section for "free" items and you could also sell your lamp on the site.

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Try a garage sale, goodwill or hope services (not sure if goodwill or hope services will take them, but worth checking into)

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Craigslist.com

You can ask for money or put it up for free. If you live next to a big city things like that tendt to go fast.

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Join your local Freecycle.org group and list items you no longer want, and people will respond and take it off your hands. It just has to be free. I've both found things and given things away, and it's a great way to help others out who have a want/need, and keep things out of the landfills!

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Dear K.,
Try Craig's List.
They have a free and barter section. You'd be surprised how many people will take an old rickety mattress until they can get another one because it's better than nothing. I would recommend putting a picture of it though, that way you won't have to deal with a bunch of people who won't want it after they see it in the end.
My sister organizes a huge annual yard sale and one thing she has learned over the years is that people will turn away from things marked "free". They got brand new furniture and wanted to get rid of a beautiful recliner...one that had the massage feature. Well, the massager didn't work anymore so she figured she would just give it away, and she literally couldn't GIVE the thing away. It was getting late in the day on the second day of the sale and we didn't want to cart it back into the garage so I told her to put a sign for $10 on it. Lo and behold, it took about 15 minutes for someone to think they got the greatest deal on the planet and happily paid $10. For some reason, if we have a box of odds and ends for "free" no one even looks at it. If we say things in the box are a dime or a quarter, people buy them.
If things truly are junk, you can see if your local dump or disposal company will come to pick them up for a fee.
Good luck!

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When I moved in with my boyfriend (now husband) I found someone to take my mattress for free on craigslist. You might also look into donating it to a homeless shelter or other charity that needs beds. If it's really past use, there is at least one place that does mattress recycling in the area, though I don't remember the name. Probably just google "Mattress recycling" or something. The coffee table could be donated to Goodwill. There are local consignment stores or higher end charities (remember, you can always itemize on next year's taxes) on Fillmore and elsewhere. I also know there's some kind of ebay-related storefront in the Castro on 18th (near the IGA). I've never checked it out, but maybe they do the packaging/shipping for you...? Just a few ideas.

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We are in the process of doing the same thing. You can take the smaller items to Goodwill, most have a drive up that you just pull into and they come out to your car and take the stuff out for you, it's really fast and simple. For the bed or any other large items that you can't deliver yourself, call Goodwill and they will make an appointment and come get the item from you. It's fast, easy and they will give you a receipt for your taxes if you want.

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I will join with the others who recommended Craigslist. You would not believe some of the things people are happy to make use of for you.

If you just want to get rid of it-list it for free, put your address out the site (I know it makes me nervous too, but you will delete the post as soon as the stuff is gone) and put it out on your front porch or driveway. Nobody else but the dump will take a mattress, and a lot of the charity shops won't take furniture with scratches on it.

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1-800-got-junk...They come to your house.

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