I just had central heat and air installed in my house. Love it, but
now I have window units and deerborn heaters taking up room in my
garage. What should I do with them? I am thinking about giving the to
the Salvation Army and get a tax deduction for them. Any other ideas?

I doubt if the Salvation Army will take them. I know that Goodwill won't.
Timing is everything. Try to get rid of the heaters now, and the air
conditioners next spring. You can try the Freecycle organization to see if
they have a local chapter in your area. http://www.freecycle.org/
If they don't, put an ad in the paper now for the space heaters at $15 each,
and hope that some sucker (er person) buys them. Then next spring, do the
same thing for the air conditioners. Ask for a small amount of money,
otherwise people will think they are broken. If you get even one call on the
a/c units, tell them you just want to see them go to a good home, and if
they come to get them, they can have them. It will cost you more to have a
certified technician remove the Freon than they are worth.

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I just had central heat and air installed in my house. Love it, but
now I have window units and deerborn heaters taking up room in my
garage. What should I do with them? I am thinking about giving the to
the Salvation Army and get a tax deduction for them. Any other ideas?

Use them in the garage?


"Aaron" wrote in message
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I just had central heat and air installed in my house. Love it, but
now I have window units and deerborn heaters taking up room in my
garage. What should I do with them? I am thinking about giving the to
the Salvation Army and get a tax deduction for them. Any other ideas?

Is there any place nearby that will take the stuff and
either sell or auction it. We have such a place in central
Delaware. They call it a bazaar. It consists of a flea
market, produce sales and auction.

"Aaron" wrote in message
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I just had central heat and air installed in my house.
Love it, but
now I have window units and deerborn heaters taking up
room in my
garage. What should I do with them? I am thinking about
giving the to
the Salvation Army and get a tax deduction for them. Any
other ideas?

Aaron wrote:
I just had central heat and air installed in my house. Love it, but
now I have window units and deerborn heaters taking up room in my
garage. What should I do with them? I am thinking about giving the
to the Salvation Army and get a tax deduction for them. Any other
ideas?

I just went the other way. Put a window unit in the bedroom. Dropped my
electric bill by 2/3rds this past summer and I expect similar savings this
winter using a space heater instead of central heat.

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:49:40 -0500, "Frank K."
wrote:

Is there any place nearby that will take the stuff and
either sell or auction it. We have such a place in central
Delaware. They call it a bazaar. It consists of a flea
market, produce sales and auction.

I'm not sure if you mean this, but when I can't find a charitable
organization to take something, I'll give it to a profit-making place.

It's better than having it destroyed. Not only because the earth is
only on loan to us from God, and his things are not for us to waste.

But also because it lowers prices for everyone when things are reused
and raises them when they aren't.

Something wortth 50$ isn't going to lower prices for 300,000,000
Americans much, not even a measurable amount, but it will some.

So if a Hamfest of a ham radio club has a table where it sells things,
I'll give something to that table. If not, if it is small, I may give
it to a vendor of used stuff and tell him he can keep the money when
he sells it. Or, if it is big enough to be noticed, I leave it by the
entrrance with a post-it that says FREE on it, or by the oil-drum
garbage cans.

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I just had central heat and air installed in my house.
Love it, but
now I have window units and deerborn heaters taking up
room in my
garage. What should I do with them? I am thinking about
giving the to
the Salvation Army and get a tax deduction for them. Any
other ideas?




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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:24:18 -0500, mm
wrote:

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:49:40 -0500, "Frank K."
wrote:

Is there any place nearby that will take the stuff and
either sell or auction it. We have such a place in central
Delaware. They call it a bazaar. It consists of a flea
market, produce sales and auction.

I'm not sure if you mean this, but when I can't find a charitable
organization to take something, I'll give it to a profit-making place.

It's better than having it destroyed. Not only because the earth is
only on loan to us from God, and his things are not for us to waste.

But also because it lowers prices for everyone when things are reused
and raises them when they aren't.

Philosophy aside (and I do agree with it), you can try joining your
local Freecycle group and see if someone on the list wants those old
items. www.freecycle.org I just joined my local group and am amazed
at the activity and the variety of items there; it's a really great
way to relocate trash and treasures and keep them out of landfills.

In addition, there's another organization called cheapcycle that has a lot
of local groups. It's based on the freecycle concept.

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:24:18 -0500, mm
wrote:

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:49:40 -0500, "Frank K."
wrote:

Is there any place nearby that will take the stuff and
either sell or auction it. We have such a place in central
Delaware. They call it a bazaar. It consists of a flea
market, produce sales and auction.

I'm not sure if you mean this, but when I can't find a charitable
organization to take something, I'll give it to a profit-making place.

It's better than having it destroyed. Not only because the earth is
only on loan to us from God, and his things are not for us to waste.

But also because it lowers prices for everyone when things are reused
and raises them when they aren't.

Philosophy aside (and I do agree with it), you can try joining your
local Freecycle group and see if someone on the list wants those old
items. www.freecycle.org I just joined my local group and am amazed
at the activity and the variety of items there; it's a really great
way to relocate trash and treasures and keep them out of landfills.

I put it out by the road. Goes fast.

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:24:18 -0500, mm
wrote:


So if a Hamfest of a ham radio club has a table where it sells things,
I'll give something to that table. If not, if it is small, I may give
it to a vendor of used stuff and tell him he can keep the money when
he sells it. Or, if it is big enough to be noticed, I leave it by the
entrrance with a post-it that says FREE on it, or by the oil-drum
garbage cans.

To comment on my own post. Things left at hamfests are very often
taken by someone who thinks he can fix them or use them, but anything
not taken is collected and turned into trash at the end of the
afternoon, or the next day.

For AC unit and heaters, that woked, I would ask hardware stores if
they want them, to sell. I'd tell them they can keep the money, or do
something nice with part or all of it. (If I were in their shoes, the
harder I had to work to sell the stuff, the less good I would try to
do with the money, like if I had to put them out in the morning and
take them in, If some hardwares stores don't want them, I'd go to a
poorer neighborhood, or a thrift shop, and give them to them, whether
I got a tax receipt or not.

For other kinds of things, especially if one lives on a busy street
and not on a court, one can determine when his trash is connected, and
put the items out by the curb the *following* day, so that there are 3
days or 6 days when someone passing by can take them.

Signs that say FREE, and WORKS make it much more likely someone will
stop and take them.

On one occasion in Brooklyn, NY, I was coming back from the beach on
my bicycle, and I found a 9 inch tv on top of a garbage can just
inside someone's yard. In NY, that means it is there to be taken. So
while I was trying to figure out how to attach it to my little luggage
rack, the owner of the home came out with a lot of twine for me so
that I could tie it to the bike rack. She even told me, "I think it
is just one tube." In fact, it was just a fuse, and the tv still
works fine.

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