<p>The Salvation Army won’t take it! Any ideas, sages of CC? Thanks!</p>
<p>Sometimes a local womens shelter will steer you to a donation site as they provide supplies to women who need such things. Otherwise call your trash service and find out what the requirements are for scheduling pickup.</p>
<p>Is there a local Habitat for Humanity Home Store? If so, you might give them a call.</p>
<p>Craigslist</p>
<p>See if a food bank would be interested. One of our friends donated a fridge to our local one.</p>
<p>HarrietWelsch-
Place it on this website, in your local community [Freecycle™:</a> About Us - About Us](<a href=“http://www.freecycle.org/aboutus]Freecycle™:”>http://www.freecycle.org/aboutus)
it is a place where people give stuff away free. Alternatively, place an ad in the “free” section in your local Craigslist. [craigslist</a> classifieds: jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, events, forums](<a href=“craigslist | about | help”>craigslist > sites) Tell someone to come get it- free for nothing. It’ll be gone in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>You all are amazing. Thanks!</p>
<p>(Our local Habitat couldn’t take it, nor could our local Food Pantry or IFCA.)</p>
<p>When we bought our new one, they took our old one away free. Guess it’s too late to do that?</p>
<p>:) We were still using it when they delivered the new one - kitchen was still very much under construction. </p>
<p>I’ve had five people contact me about it since posting on Craigslist already, though.</p>
<p>Sometimes schools are interested in them. One time my D’s HS put out an appeal for one for use in a snack shack used for sporting events.</p>
<p>Otherwise, contact your electric utility and ask them if they have some kind of trade-in program for old fridges. They sometimes do since a 10 year/old or so fridge typically uses a lot more electricity than a newer, more efficient one. If nothing else, they might take it off your hands and recycle the refrigerant and send the metal off for recycling.</p>
<p>Thanks, everybody! Both were picked up today. You all are just amazing.</p>
<p>For future reference, which site got more responses – Freecycle or craigslist? Did you post on both?</p>
<p>I couldn’t get the freecycle finder to load, despite repeated attempts, so this was all through craigslist.</p>
<p>I have never heard of Freecycle. Just about everybody I know has heard of CraigsList…even my kids.</p>
<p>Churches sometimes want donated refrigerators because they store food between events. They also have custodians on trucks to come and pick things up, although you might have to wait some days until they work. Donations to nonprofits are tax-deductible so request written receipt from the office, “received on x date, one refrigerator valued at x.” and signed by them.</p>
<p>I’m glad you were able to place your refrigerator using Craigslist. Can anyone unlock the Freecycle for us. It sounds like a good way to barter or donate.</p>
<p>p3t, it’s a great suggestion. By the time I posted my query here, I’d tried the local food pantry, churches, synagogues, IFCA (interfaith counsel for action), big brothers/big sisters, family services of this county, 3 different women’s shelters, local habitat, and local word-of-mouth. I was flat out of ideas!</p>
<p>I have no trouble getting right into freecycle, but I already have a yahoo groups account, and thats what it takes to get in. You have to register with yahoo groups and then you should be all set.</p>
<p>** heres a link to yahoo groups [Yahoo</a>! Groups - Join or create groups, clubs, forums & communities](<a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>http://groups.yahoo.com/)</p>
<p>I cant recall if it required me to set up a yahoo email (probably, since I have one) but that was fine, However, if I recall, my hahoo group stuffis linked to a non yahoo account. Sorry to ramble, but it should be easy to sign up to be in the freecycle group through yahoo. Let use know!</p>
<p>I too, donated my old fridge last year to the high school, to be used in the snack bar for booster clubs and PTSA events. OK, I had an ulterior motive, I’m the Co-President of the Basketball Booster Club… and it made our lives so much easier… we run the snack bar at every home game, but it was a really good solution anyway, and other groups have benefitted from it as well.</p>