How to deal with unwanted furniture?

[FruHagen]

I have sadly got to clear out my parents house and there is lots of good quality furniture in it that no-one in the family has room for.

The Sue Ryder charity shop say they won't take it.

We have very limited time to get out of the house as the new buyers are moving in. It seems a shame to take it to the tip.

What can we do? Anyone have any ideas.

In Preston area if anyone wants it. Will need a big van.

Try British Heart Foundation, and Debra. Both will collect.

Facebook marketplace or local Facebook group? If you list for free someone might come to get it

Any local auction houses that do full house clearances?

Try emmaus.org.uk/preston/

I would pay for a house clearance. If any of it is resaleable or worth donating usually they will do it. But second hand furniture isn't popular these days or worth much.

I find it so frustrating this sort of thing.

There must be so many people out there trying to set up home with little money and people like the OP have stuff to give away! But there is no joining up of the dots.

I am in a similar position. So much stuff to help people but even the charities are saying no to some stuff.

This happened on our local fb recycling page. A women said shed go through each room and put up what she had and if anyone had any links to charities that would take them. Think it took her about a month to sort it all in the end. Good luck

My council (in London) runs a place where do ated furniture can be passed on. The Salvation Army do the same thing.

I do know there have been complaints that they can't pick it up quickly enough, but the idea is good.

Emmaus take furniture. Have you posted on Freecycle?

england.shelter.org.uk/support_us/shops/preston?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZGYBhCEARIsAEUXITWOhehc__7FN5_0QdrThJGgzUPMMWxb3nqY-5aj41EAMcr6SbP5a3QaAkBiEALw_wcB

furnituredonationnetwork.org/

It usually goes in a couple of days on the freecycle or olio websites

Look for small local charities or women's aid.
When we emptied mum's house a local mental health charity took the lot.

My Mum just had her suite collected this week by the British Heart Foundation. They collected within a couple of days of her contacting them

Freecycle/Olio should all go within a week but it’s quite a bit of work if you have a lot of stuff, so realistically a house clearance person would be easiest - they will take it away sell what they can.

Gumtree is amazing just put it on as freebies people fight over my junk on it

British heart foundation collected most of my MIL’s furniture. That was about 5 years ago in Blackpool.

you can also try giving it away using freecycle or free on FB marketplace.

There are loads of free cycle pages on FB. Stuff gets snapped up round here. Or gumtree.

Or contact a house clearance company if you want to get some money for it.

I use the Olio app to advertise things for free, I find people on there more reliable than on Facebook! Anything made of metal I put out and text the local scrap man who collects it.

I used Emmaus Blackburn for this. There is an Emmaus Preston. They took everything (even items which didn't have the fire labels on).

I leave smaller stuff outside on a sunny day. By lunchtime it will be gone.

Facebook marketplace is great because local people come to you to collect it. So no delivery to worry about

In our are St Francis Hospice and the Air Ambulance clear it for a reasonable fee. I would not go down the free cycle route as they are unreliable at collecting. I guess you want it gone in one day

Depending on how much stuff there is, how much time you have etc then Freecycle or Olio will get rid of a lot of it. But you would need to list each item, be around to let in someone collecting it. Olio is better as people are rated which cuts down on the time wasters.

We just bought a house and the vendor had left loads of stuff behind. Didn't have time to do Freecycle or Olio so used a local house clearance company. They put suitable stuff into auction or charity shop, recycle what they can and the rest to the tip. We did have to pay tip costs for disposal of some ancient and revolting appliances!