just put it out on the curb, and then post anonymously to the facebook groups for these type of things, and people will grab it in min, no complaints. My parents once got ride of 2 sofa's, was gone from the curb in under 30 min, saw some college kids hauling it away to what I assume would be their apartment

Yes people will use that whole "you made my kid cry" thing. I found a cat and arranged to take her to a girl I had met in a meeting and she seemed like a good home. I arranged to meet with her 2 separate times and the second time I drove across town to take her to her. When I got close she said she got busy and could I wait till she was done I said sure and ended up waiting like 2 hours! I had bought her all kinds of supplies like food, bowls, toys, litter stuff. And then she just stopped answering all together. I decided that I'm keeping kitty after that. I can make it work. Late that night she finally texted back and wanted to arrange to meet up for a 3d time. I said it's okay I've decided to keep her! And then she got mad and said I made her kid sad. Wtf I didn't even know she had a young daughter and actually I felt even better of my decision after that lol. Still have kitty and I'm so so happy. We made it work and she's right here next to me as I type :) her name is Slippers.

I held a moving sale years back, listed items included books. Book resellers came by just before it opened, helped me put out some boxes and bought the books they wanted. No fuss, no muss.

It is annoying giving s**t away. We did the curb thing with a facebook post and people would knock on our door asking if we could hold s**t for a few weeks. No people, that's why it's on the curb. Duh.

My daughter and SIL moved into their first apartment straight out of college near my SIL job. They gave birth to a baby as well. They didn't have nothing really. A air mattress and the baby's furniture. This couple who was marry for 1 year was finally moving in together. The wife was able to get transfer to a place closer to her husband place. So she was getting rid of her things. They had a couch for $100 it came with a blanket and throw pillows. It was the last day to get it all out. My daughter rented a all Uhaul. They went to picked it up they started talking the husband and my SIL hitted off. My SIL is a mechanical engineer his wife was loving my grand baby. They let the couple know that they just moved and really don't have nothing. The woman called everyone else who called about the free stuff nobody was able to come and get it. They had a dining room table that they was selling for $100 the person didn't want it since they couldn't deliver it. At that point the woman and her

Some of these bored panda stories are just plain boring. Is that why it's called bored panda?

The worst ones are the scammers. I tried to sell a twin bed frame (it was pretty nice and had a light) and mattress a few years ago. I get people being apprehensive about the mattresses, so I said that they could be sold separately. Anyway, the scam is that someone offered to buy it and gave me $600 more than what I asked on a check from Sacramento (address was for a 99 cent store). Then they said I had to pay the movers with that extra money. The check was from some concrete company. Now that's suspicious. I called the company and they said they didn't know about it. I also live in Phoenix and light up twin bed frame isn't worth that much. Like just buy a new one in Sacramento. The way this scam works is if I cashed the check, it would deposit but then eventually bounce, meaning that I would end up paying the scamming pieces of s!it "movers" $600 to haul away this bed. Tried to file a police report but they didn't seem that enthusiastic and neither did the police in Sacramento.

I've gone my research on the various local charitable organizations and found one that seems to be pretty much on the level, definitely better than Good Will, and I've donated a ton of stuff to them over the last few weeks in preparation for moving. Another good avenue is if you've got military bases in your local area. The AF has what they call the Airman's Attic which takes quite a few different donations for household items and clothes with the best aspect being that they only allow personnel who are E5 and below to shop for what they may need. Outside of something like Airman's Attic, bases may have other areas which receive donation such as outdoor and recreation items.

Yeah, I'm blind and obviously don't drive, but if I wanted something in this situation - I'm poor so I tend to - I'll either make sure the person is willing to deliver and offer to pay for it, or I won't try to claim the item. It's just rude to expect people to go out of their way to accommodate people - free/cheap items are more than enough! If I really need or want something and the person isn't willing or able to deliver, there are services in Copenhagen where I can pay for it. But it being Copenhagen that'd be so expensive it'd be better to get whatever it is delivered from IKEA.

Apparently people are kinder here in Sweden. I know most of the people who sell their stuff on our local Facebook group and they know I don't have a driving licence (epilepsy) and that my only transport is my wheelchair. So they offer to bring it to me and I pay for the fuel and a fee for delivery. I don't buy furniture though, it's always smaller items, like a vacuum cleaner or curtains etc. One seller has seen that I'd commented on someone else's post that I was interested in the item being sold but then the seller said they lived outside of our small town so I couldn't pick it up and they had no possibility to bring it to me so the other seller offered to pick it up for me and come with it at the same time when he was coming with the items I bought from him. The other seller was very close to where he lived so easy pickup and I gave him extra money for being so kind

Awhile ago we did a garage sale to get rid of stuff. We had super cheap prices because it was more about clearing things out than getting money. We had two working TVs for sale - 32 & 36 inch. Both worked, were really nice flat screens, absolutely nothing wrong with them. We were asking $10 for one and $15 for the other. People were offering $2 and $5, but wanted to see how it looked inside. I ended up keeping them for over a year before setting them outside on a rainy day for trash pickup. F@ck em all...

I have had ONE garage sale ever and this is why. Things that are actually worth some money, people want to offer $1 for. I was so pissed off at the end, I swore NEVER AGAIN. I donate everything to charity now.

Whenever I no longer need items, and still in good shape, I donate them to the local Vets organization and/or Salvation Army. Where I live, both have monthly pickups dates. I leave things on my driveway and they pick them up.

yeah but not everyone without a car CHOOSES to be carless. I wouldnt demand a delivery for free stuff, though. When i was moving in with my BF i got rid of a lot of stuff, put it on the curb because thriftshops didnt wanna have it. Passers by started to take stuff, so that was good. Two guys started picking out things and friendly asked me if i was going to add more stuff that i was going to get rid off. Turned out it was a father and son who had their first place of their own after difficult time. Told them i had a fridge upstairs that worked perfect but thriftshops refused it because it had a big dent in it. It was free as long as they would carry it downstairs so i wouldnt have to and take it to the dump. So they did. I asked them to see if there was anything else they could use, they picked out some things. Next day they came back just to say thank you.

When i moved a few years ago, I started by cleaning and downsizing. Anything of value I donated. But other stuff - old suitcases, boxes of books, misc kitchen stuff - I put out in a pile by the trash can at the end of the driveway for haul away. I came home the next day (not trash day) and the pile was considerably smaller. I didn't even have to place an ad.

My small town has a community garage sale day. Ther most brilliant thing thing I saw this year was the person who listed their address for it and announced they had tables of free stuff. No specific description. Just free.

See stuff like this messes it up for the real non lazy people. My son broke my 32" tv.. My mom let me borrow hers out the play room that night. The next day my mom's best friend who didn't know I needed a TV called my mom told her that his neighbor is putting out a little older 50" screen TV if she knew anyone who can use it he will make sure nobody takes it. I was with my mom she said yeah Rasheeda do her son just broke hers. She picked up my 18 year old nephew and drove over there and we picked it up. Me and my nephew took it into my apartment. It's a great model the volume is awesome the picture quality is great. I said thank you God I didn't have the money to replace it.

I think what you should do is figure out what reasonable delivery costs are, then triple that figure and put it into the ad. So if it'd be $50 to delivery a dryer you word the ad "Dryer free, $150 for delivery".

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