Anywhere to donate old cubicles?

[Blaze]

I got a bunch of old cubicles from my office at work. I sold half of them, traded a couple of them, and used a couple of pieces as workbenches in my garage.

I still have a ton of them left, like 4 with walls and 4 without walls and some other additional pieces.

My living room is filled up and my wife is now unhappy.

How can I get rid of these things? I had them listed on Craigslist for $500 for all of it (I sold 4 for $750 earlier) but no one has come to buy.

Habitat Restore says they don't take office furniture, and I don't think Goodwill will either.

I'd really like to donate them to get the tax writeoff if I can.

 

[BRUISER]

post on CL

 

[Blaze]

I did, the only people that seem to email me are people that think a 6.5'x6.5' cubicle is too big.

 

[Blaze]

Found one, Salvation Army

 

[RatLabGuy]

lol, when I saw the old post on this, I knew one like this would follow eventually!

 

[RatLabGuy]

Call up Wake Tech, I bet they'd love to take them.

 

[Blaze]

lol, when I saw the old post on this, I knew one like this would follow eventually!

Hey, I made $900 off of the ones I sold! And I got a nice sturdy workbench for the side wall of my shop.

 

[dmoore714]

Call Wake County Habitat for Humanity in Raleigh. (919) 833-1999. If they can't use them for their office, they can sell them to raise some money. Its a tax write off for you, and they might even be willing to come pick them up.

 

[Blaze]

Habitat said they don't take office furniture. I'm calling Salvation Army in a few minutes to schedule a pickup.

 

[Blaze]

Dammit, Salvation Army store told me they took cubes and then when I called to schedule a pickup they said they don't accept them.

 

[UncleWillie]

Cut the fabric off of them and take them to a scrap yard.

 

[Blaze]

Tempted to. What's the price of scrap now? There is about 2500 lbs of steel in these things.

 

[dmoore714]

I know the Habitat store in Statesville would take them. I've bought and donated office furniture there several times. Its a bit far for them to drive for a pickup though.

Try some of the other Habitat stores in that area. They usually dont pickup outside of their county... but if you have enough to make it worth their time, and if Wake County already said no, its worth a shot.

www.Habitat.org/local

 

[Fart]

Try calling the Durham Rescue Mission on Highway 70.
They had a ton of them the last time I was there which means they do take them. It may mean they don't need/want any more though, lol.
Make sure you get a tax writeoff form while you're there.

 

[technologyteacher]

I've seen office furniture at Goodwill in Winston Salem

 

[rodney eppes]

There are businesses in Charlotte that sell used office equipment, & they hit the auctions of businesses that go out of business. [damn that's a lot of "business/es"] Not sure how their listed in Yellow pages, bet you can find some in Raleigh.

 

[Blaze]

We called all of those places. They said they are all overstocked as it is.

I'll call some Habitat and GW stores tomorrow and see, along with the Durham Rescue Mission.

 

[RatLabGuy]

Seriously, I'd scrap it. If it's $$ you're thinking about, do the math on the real "goodwill" value (few hundred $$?), multiply it by your tax rate and that's all you'll get as a deduction. Doubt it's really that much.

It sounds like the sad truth is, nobody wants it. So you might as well do the earth a favor and see that it gets recycled instead of dumped....

 

[yodaman88]

you can give some to me for free

 

[bonecrusher]

scrap it

We just had an office supply company come and build us all new cubicles and remove the old ones.

They dropped off a 18 wheeler with an open back and stacked em in.

Dropped em off at a recycle plant without the fabric.

Dropped the fabric off at a fabric recycler.

Boom instant cash.


That is your best bet.