Help! Need to get rid of double bed v soon, and Furniture Exchange don't want it...how??

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...its a king size bedbase (not great), a headboard (nice, rattan/wood), and a memoryflex mattress thats too small for the base.

No one wants it, but we have to move it out within a week or two for dd1's new bed to move in (us going up in the loft, bed doesn't fit).

Does anyone have any idea who we can pay/bribe/beg to move and remove it, in SW London??

You are my last chance: DH is sceptical, but I said maybe someone on MN could help....

Freecycle

Local council? - might have to pay them.
A charity that helps people furnish houses for cheap?
Take it to the dump?

what about freecycle?

Great, thanks, will try those - starting with Freecycle. Furniture Exchange wouldn't take it because the mattress isn't the exact size of the base, and they don't take kingsize.

Maybe offer it as two seperate items?

i stuck an old set of bunk beds on ebay, hoping that someone would come and take them off my hands so that we could change room into a nursery.

They cost £120 from argos. Metal frame, mattresses like digestive biscuits. At least 2 years old. They sold on ebay for £110. I was absolutely gob smacked. I was hoping to get £10!

wow! Not sure if I have time for ebay, but thats amazing...thanks, all, will get to work as soon as the LOs are settled.

You could try Emmaus. They collect in our area (Gloucestershire).

Contact your local womens aid refuge - ours would gladly take them!

If those don't work, when I lived in SE London, everyone seemed to drive over to Woolwich and dump unwanted furniture on common/pavement.

Emmaus don't have a local branch, and the womens' refuges around here, apparently, are fully furnished

Have registered with Freecycle, which I'd been meaning to do anyway, so thanks for the nudge.

Onwards..

Stick cards in local shop windows - I got rid of a huge, hideous old desk that way. I thought it was foul but some students came to get it and were thrilled with it.

Might do, though area sadly lacking in student types, and abundant in people who want mattresses that fit beds, I think...worth a try, though; I spoke to Council who will take it all away for £29 but landfill seems such a waste

The Salvation Army were happy to take a single wooden bed and mattress we had a few months ago. They charged us £5.00 to collect it but we were fine with that.

Gumtree might be worth it, particularly if you set the price low. Freecycle should shift it, easier and quicker, though.