To be offended that no one wants my sofa

If you’re going to smash it up maybe someone would take just the leather? Better than it all going into landfill surely.

Pop it on as something good for upcycling projects.

We chopped an old leather sofa up because we couldn't get it back out if the house (we had to have the window removed to get it in). I'm cross now I didn't think to save the leather for sewing projects. If you can cut that off along the seams it might be desirable for someone who sews.

Transport and getting it into the room are usually an issue.

I feel your pain. I tried to get rid of a sofa when I moved from a house to a flat and didn't have room for it. It was a nice sofa, comfy, looked good. I couldn't give it away, no charity would pick it up. Apparently there is very little market for used sofas. Eventually I had to pay for someone to come and take it to the dump to me.

Freecycle. Someone will snap your hand off for it.

Are you on Facebook? If so, see if you have a local “C.R.A.P” page. It’s where people list stuff they want to give away for free. You just need to specify collection only.

Can you try some local charities that provide youth clubs or clubs for disabled kids?

Odds of finding a sofa you like, isn’t in bad condition and a Man with van isn’t going to charge an arm and a leg for is low.

Then add in the risk of bringing fleas or bed bugs or something home with you and yeah plus naked arses and sex on sofas and now I’ve got the ick.

I’ll just buy new even if I had to pay in instalments and wait longer throwing a throw over my current one.

Deleted as I realised it was a pointless msg repeating you and other pp

Could you get it some Botox or other treatments and try again? Even sofas are suffering in this ageist society.

This ^

I don't do Facebook but OH does. He reckons marketplace is full of crap that people are attempting to 'give away' because they don't want the hassle/expense of getting rid of it themselves.

If it's still got some life left in it, put it on an eBay auction with a low starting price @Chocolatemoosecups...or pay for the council bulky waste collection.

I absolutely know what you mean, OP - it’s hard to think of your faithful sofa not going to a loving home with people who will appreciate it.

But I come from a family of hoarders who were always trying to give me their worn out old shite that meant a lot to them and would just be a massive ugly stinky inconvenience to me, so I can see both sides of this situation!

The thing even if you’re young in your first house, you’re probably going to make do with dining chairs and your bed until you sort out a sofa of your own choosing from one of the big places, on credit
Then there’s cheap brand new sofas from places like Argos, Wilkos etc.

With Klarna and the other options most things are accessible to everyone, who wouldn’t necessarily be grateful for someone’s old wrinkly sofa. They want new, or something more in a current style.

Even if you’re on the bones of your arse, chances are you live in a furnished room in a house share.

You said the sofa was suitable for someone’s dog. If you’ve got room to put a sofa in a room just for your dog’s use then you’re probably not short of money.
I never think, ‘this isn’t good enough for me so it’s good enough for someone else’ hence my council suggestion. The council will come and dispose of my old junk every now and then, I just arrange it through their website.

This one isn't in beautiful condition.

I could understand being offended if nobody wanted you, or something you made, or something/someone you love. This is an old sofa. As pp said, get over yourself.

If you won't post a picture on an anonymous thread , I think deep down you know the answer as to why it is not being snapped up .
Be honest and admit you are trying get pass it on so you haven't got the hassle of getting rid .
If it was lovely you'd be keeping it , and you say because you have no space ? So where was it before when it was being used ?

You are suffering from waster's guilt, you don't want it, but you want someone else to want it because you know that it has life left in it and you don't really need a new sofa.

Get over yourself. Keep the sofa because it is still good enough to use, or throw it away.

Also, charity shops know what will sell and what won’t and they have limited space.

Suspect lots of people would like it. It they need to be able to transport it, which narrows your market by quite a lot.

I feel for the sofa, it seems so unfair that something becomes worthless after years of service but I might be weird with my affection for inanimate objects. I have a little chest of drawers called Ivor, no idea why its called that. I paid a fortune to ship it here not because it goes with anything in my modern villa in the middle east but because it didnt seem fair to leave it behind. There was a fire in a massive warehouse full of transformers a few years ago and the local news said they didnt manage to rescue them all. I felt really sad even though I googled what a transformer is and they are quite ugly.

The British Heart Foundation will come and take it away and sell it to a family in need. They then let you know how much was raised for their charity. I did this with an old sofa of mine that was in beautiful condition, it just didn’t fit when I moved house.

I think it's because there are quite a few available.I got rid of a bed sofa, but only because it went to a student who had used the sofa once and found it comfortable.Don't feel offended.

You can’t arrange delivery for a small fee if you car giving the website of a van company. How do you know it will be a small fee and you are asking them to arrange it so it is misleading.

I had this experience when I tried to give my telly to a charity helping ex-homeless people furnish new accommodation. Not wide enough.