How do I get help finding free furniture?
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You can get free furniture if you live in a college town. The students who live off campus have to clear out their apartments when they leave. If there is a condo complex or apartment complex check their trash rooms at the end of each semester. And you can check Craigslist. Also, get in touch with landlords in your area. They often have furniture that has been left by tenants.
I found free furniture 0ver 40 years ago. My large family used it and the quality was great. @ end tables, 2 dressers and kitchen chairs. I was always tight on money and never felt ashamed about picking up free crubside items. Buy caring for the items one 45 year old dresser friend is being given to a family member.
Join Freecycle and put an ad in. They also have a lot of posts giving away free furniture.
Go to Freecycle.org and enter your town and state and it will connect you with the closest Freecycle website where you can register and get updates when someone posts free furniture and other durable goods. You can also post if you are in need of a specific item such as making a post "Wanted: Full size bed" and anyone having one that they can give you will respond. There is one thing you must remember.
Just to add another layer to the already great answers above, never underestimate the power of driving by the posh section of town a couple of days before garbage day. Or as someone already mentioned, driving by the curb of a college town at the end of each semester (december or may, depending).
I picked up some AMAZING pieces in the Buckhead area of Atlanta - things I was later on able to resell for $100 when we finally moved.
As for the college, when people are stressed out and needing to vacate in a hurry, they get rid of amazing things.
An ancillary response is dumpster diving, though I've never been much into this. It is dangerous and the dumpster people don't generally like you to do it.
Go to Craigslist.org and find your state, and city, or as close to it as you can. There is a section that lists free items.
freecycle, craislist and the facebook swap shops for your town.
If there is a college or university in your area. then the year ends you will find all sorts of frr furnitre out..
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Now where to find help:
1. Salvation Army: you can get a voucher once a year for a piece of furniture or sometimes more.
2. Local Churches help is sometimes available according to the actual need
3. Hope to dream by Ashley Furniture.
www.ashleyfurniturehomestore.com/
buynothingproject.org/
www.freecycle.org/
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