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cant even give it away

February 26th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

As we merged households 18 months ago, we ended up with many duplicate items, and some unneeded ones. This includes a 1970's wood consol TV set, that works, color, cable ready. However, it was made before remote controls caught on, so it has none. We tried to sell it for $5. No interest. We have even tried giving it away--no one wants it. We have put it on Craigslist, offered it to numerous schools and organizations and no one wants it.
What the heck am I to do with it????

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10 Responses to “cant even give it away”

  1. ceejay74 Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 10:56 pm 1204066592
    1204066592

    Hang onto it and pass it through a few generations till it becomes a treasured antique? LOL.

    Other than that, I doubt you'll garner any interest. I'd research environmental info to see if it's safe to just throw it away; otherwise you may want to find a recycler who disposes of these things.

  2. disneysteve Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 10:57 pm 1204066631
    1204066631

    Drag it out to the curb the afternoon before your trash pickup. I'm willing to bet it will disappear before the trashmen get there.

  3. mom-from-missouri Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm 1204067047
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    We have no curb and we have no trash pickup. We burn our trash as we live 8 miles from the smallest of towns. (We do take our plastic, paper, glass, tin and alum to recycle, leaving very little to burn.) Putting it by the road wouldn't do much good, as we are on a gravel road and traffic is limited to our farming neighbors, and thats only about 3 families.

    The recycling center will take it--for a $45 fee. Why should I pay to get rid of a working TV??? It is pretty, the cabinet is walnut.

    Hehe-DD1 graduates and moves to Chicago in May. Maybe we could sneak it into her moving trailer.......

  4. nance Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 11:12 pm 1204067569
    1204067569

    If your DH is handy with wood, he could always use the wood to make something. That is what my husband would do.
    I've seen cabinets made from old console tv's and stereos.
    I heard on tv that Goodwill will take old televisions. They part them out, if they can't sell them.

  5. jodi Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 02:15 am 1204078516
    1204078516

    Have you tried Freecyle.org? I'm constantly amazed at the things I can find a home for there. It's worth checking to see if there is one in your area.

  6. Thrifty Ray Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 05:22 am 1204089778
    1204089778

    Goodwill, boys and girls club, ARC?? surely there is an organization that would be greatful to have something like this?? how sad that a working tv is considered of no value without a remote...gads!!

  7. disneysteve Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm 1204116723
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    Thrifty Ray - I'm guessing that the problem isn't so much the remote as it is the behemoth nature of those 1970s wood console sets. I remember the one we had and it was massive and weighed a ton. If this one has a solid walnut case, we're not talking about something easily portable in a shelter or other facility.

  8. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 05:31 pm 1204133492
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    Turn it into a homeschool project? Let the kids look up how a television works. Then let them open up the one you've got and compare & confirm what they've got with what they learned on paper or via internet. Let them take it apart as far as they want to....Or maybe let them go head and ruin it with magnets before they take it apart. Turn on tv and let them see how as a magnet approaches it, the picture becomes distorted. The effect can be permanent, so be sure you are willing to sacrifice the TV. If they read up on how the TV works, they will have some idea why magnets do this. Just another way to gather up an understanding of electromagnetism in the everyday world. Wink

  9. My English Castle Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 11:06 pm 1204153587
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    I had a landlord who turned his big ole console TV into an aquarium. It was pretty darn ugly, but just right for a boho style apartment. Or a terrarium?

  10. pfodyssey Says:
    February 28th, 2008 at 01:09 am 1204160987
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    I like the idea about using it for a science project. However, seems I recall that a television might have some bad things in it like lead or mercury...be careful. Otherwise, make a charitable donation of it...somehow.

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