<p>We finally decided to replace our older 36" tube tv with a flat screen tv. The older tv works great so I would love to donate it to an organization that would enjoy using it. I have called a few homeless shelters and shelters for battered woman, but no one wants the tv. It weighs a ton, but I am willing to deliver it if I could find someone to take it; my husband and son had trouble lifting it due to the weight, yet I can pick up the new tv with one hand!!</p>
<p>While I can just have the Kidney Foundation or another organization that does home pick up come get the tv, I really would rather donate it where I know it will be use vs being sold at a store. Any suggestions on where I should look to find a home for this tv? I just assumed that some of these places would jump at the chance to have a large working tv, but I guess they either prefer the newer, lighter, tv or just don’t have a need.</p>
<p>What about a local church or senior center? VoTech HS for repair lab? Fire station?</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t see what’s so important about making sure the set is put to use. A charity can still benefit from your gift if all they do is sell it. It seems a little hypocritical to me. You don’t want to watch the set anymore, but as a condition of donation, you expect the recipient to watch it. If it’s such a great TV, why not keep it? </p>
<p>Perhaps a afterschool program might also want & be able to use it, like the YWCA/YMCA? Agree about the local churches & senior centers. If worse comest o worse, probably the local thrift shop could sell it and keep their programs going a bit longer–maybe they’d have a silent auction, as they tend to on larger ticket items.</p>
<p>FWIW, I’ve read that the old TVs last considerably longer than the new, lighter weight ones due to quality control & other issues. We’re dinasours & only have the old-fashioned TVs with the most basic cable.</p>
<p>Depends on where you are maybe but here in CA nobody will take the older TVs. In fact you have to pay to dispose of them. My company installs new tv and we always ask what they are doing with the old one. If they want us to take it we have to charge for that.</p>
<p>If you cannot find an organization that would like to actually use the TV, you might consider donating it to an organization like Goodwill or the Salvation Army. While such an organization will sell it, the process of selling it is helpful to others as those organizations help train the unemployed.</p>
<p>If you want your charitable impulse to be damped a little, try giving away a 36" tube tv.</p>
<p>They are very heavy, not “cool”, out of date in connectivity, and barely worth the trouble for people. </p>
<p>Our garbage men took ours after the Salvation Army pointed out that they don’t accept them. Our local church bizzare will not accept tube screen tvs. Oh, and the Salvation Army won’t accept furniture with scratches or dings. They’re in business to sell stuff and buy people food or whatever. </p>
<p>Either keep it or just find someone to take it out of the house. If you tried to sell it, it might be worth almost nothing. I mean, less than $50, and probably not that because of the obsolescence and the weight hassle.</p>
<p>What dad said but I was trying to say it a little nicer. We have an alley behind our shop. We put a tv out there with a sign that said gratis. Someone came and took it away. The next day they came knocking on our front door ****ed off because we didn’t have the remote! We generally pay the landfill to take them or house them until we have one of two annually free electronic waste at the dump days.</p>
<p>I also have a 36" “behemoth” JVC TV purhcased back in 2002 from now defunct brick and mortar Circuit City. Mine is sitting in a cut-out space in my MBR sitting area about 6 feet from the floor. I’ll never forget the sounds of two BIG delivery guys grunting and groaning when they lifted it up to install it! Thanks for reminding me of this situation also weighing heavily on MY mind. Is there a way to dis-assemble it and take it out in pieces? These TV sets must weigh a couple hundred pounds in round numbers.</p>
<p>It is very difficult to find anyone willing to take large items. Even the thrift stores have become very picky. My friend had a house of good condition expensive furniture and she had a hard time finding a charity to take it all. They only want what they can quickly sell. Also large items take up space that many charities don’t have.
Our best bet is it you could find a young person in your area who wants a free TV and is willing to come pick it up. That is how we got rid of our last set of couches. The thrift store was not taking anymore couches and we finally contacted a friend of my son’s who was moving into his first apartment. He took the couches and the old huge TV. We were happy to get rid of them.</p>
<p>Also, a lot of places are nervous about possible bed bugs, especially with large furniture. You could advertise at the local university to see if anyone wants it free or cheaply.</p>
<p>Search for “freecycle” - this is a national org that has local groups. Basically, after you join, you post a message for either something you have or something you want. Point of the group is to cut down on the amount of junk tossed into landfill. If you are giving away the item, you also get to choose who it goes to and give it to them. Over the years, I gave away used kitchen cabinets, a few old dressers, tables, tvs, vcrs… If there is a group in your area, it is great because they come and pick it up.</p>
<p>We have a recycling place that will take the tv for a $10 charge and I have though of taking it there; it is just the tv truly in great working condition and I do have the remote!! I have not checked with the Salvation Army or Kidney Foundation, but it is possible they do not want it either.</p>
<p>I did find a website called Donation Town that list charities in your area and what they will accept. I haven’t looked through the site yet, but I might fill out the information and see which charities will take the tv. I also have some other things to donate that I usually do the last week in December; last year we were dropping things off on the 31st and every year I say we will do our yearly donations earlier and it never happens!</p>
<p>I called a friend’s church and they took our old Sony for the Sunday school. It was a growing church and they had more kids than could fit in one room and, as we threw in the old VCR, they were very pleased to get it. Apparently, a lot of their old programming was on VHS. </p>
<p>I once got rid of an old dryer (we’d only needed a new washer but the matching drying was only another $75 bucks on sale) by calling a homeless shelter. The lady said she’d just been praying that morning for a new dryer as theirs had just coughed and died the day before. It felt very strange to be the answer to a prayer.</p>
<p>Another “hard to give away” story here. Monstrously heavy 36" tube TV. Worked perfectly. Offered it to family members … everyone said “No thanks.” I finally gave it to DD’s boyfriend. He picked it up in a total junk of a truck that wouldn’t start when he was ready to leave.</p>
<p>Bottom Line: Take it to a poorer part of town some sunny day. Put a “Free” sign on it … and leave it there. JMHO.</p>
<p>What is it with the huge 36" tv that no one wants? Must be the weight of them!! I would like to donate mine to some organization, so the search continues.</p>
<p>We have two older (2002) flatscreen TV’s, a 20 inch Sony and a 27 inch Toshiba and they both work great. Since I am getting new lightweight flatscreens to replace them, I offered both TV’s to my housekeeper and she is thrilled to get them. She is not sure if she will keep them both or give one away but she is a member of a large church (most of its congregants are from Brazil and speak Portugueze) and she frequently brings stuff from our house to share with the church. My husband will put both TV’s in her car for her.</p>
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