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01.17.06
Out With the Old |
When it's time to edit your worldly possessions, here are places where you can donate, and in a few cases sell, your stuff. Whether you get cash back or karma, you'll have room to welcome in the new.
Appliances Goodwill Partnership for the Homeless
Arts Materials Materials for the Arts
Batteries Rechargeable Battery Recycling
Bed Linens NYC Rescue Mission Animal shelters will also use your old linens for animal bedding.
Bicycles Recycle-a-Bicycle
Books Children for Children Housing Works
Cell Phones Call2Recycle Most local cell phone stores also accept phones for recycling. Do they really do the right thing with the phones? We can't vouch.
Clothing Career Gear Dress for Success Nike Reuse-A-Shoe NY Cares Coat Drive
Computers and Electronics Lower East Side Ecology Center National Cristina Non-Profit Computing Share the Technology Tools for Schools
Estate Cleanout Braswell Galleries Tepper Galleries
Eyeglasses Lions Clubs
Furniture Apartment Therapy Classifieds Craig's List Furnish a Future
General Donations Goodwill Housing Works Materials for the Arts Partnership for the Homeless Pencil
Kid's Clothing and Equipment Baby Buggy
Printer Cartridges Cure Recycling
Vinyl and CDs Academy Records Bleecker Street Records, 239 Bleecker [Leroy/Carmine] 212.255.7899 Rocks in Your Head
Waste Dropoff Sites Got some motor oil to unload? Car or household batteries? Take all that, plus your motor oil filters, transmission fluid, fluorescent tubes, latex paint, mercury thermometers, and car tires to the Department of Sanitation garage, 605 W. 30th [11th/12th] from 10-5 on the last Friday of each month or any Saturday except the last Saturday of the month. Details here. |
Why it's so hard to give things away… Many charities make money these days from running a used goods shop. Few have facilities to fix or repair things you donate, so your stuff has to be in "resalable condition." If you wouldn't buy it, you probably can't give it away. Owning a truck and employing drivers to pick up donated goods is an expense many charities can't take on. Those that own or rent trucks will want to be sure that what they're coming to get can be sold for more than the pickup costs. The organizations that provide donated goods to people setting up a new home need to tailor what they take from you to what they need for the apartments being furnished. Your perfectly good table may be turned down if they have a lot of tables and no dressers. Almost no one wants mattresses. In general, we've found people not especially agreeable on the phone when you want to donate your things. Go figure. |
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