Getting rid of old washer?

Set it on the curb. It will be gone before the day's over.

are you able to get it to the curb? if so, it will be picked up by scrappers pretty quick

slowsol beat me to it!

I bet if you put a notice on Craigslist or some similar site stating that there will be a washer free for the taking at the curb, someone would pick it up within minutes for the scrap metal and/or recoverable parts.

(This is assuming that you can get it from the house to the curb, so that you don't have to worry about letting a stranger into your home or anything like that.)

I type too slow!

We called the following couple, they pick up scrap metal, free.

419-304-9723 Jenny
419-806-9558 Todd

Yeah- Curb it. We had an old Refrigerator just taking space up in our garage and my brother told me to put it by the curb...I no more got it to the curb on trash night and walked to close the garage and someone had already stopped and was getting ready to load it up!

LOL @ Hoops comment.

Anything I do not want I put at the curb and attach a sign that says "FREE" in big bold letters (gotta use ALL CAPS on the sign). Inevitably the item will be gone within four hours.

I am amazed at what people will take when the "FREE" is attached to it. The metal items I understand, as the prices for recycled metals are high, but I have had people take all sorts of useless (to me) plastic junk, old wood, outdated electronics, and worthless household items when they see the "FREE" sign. It is almost as if some folks cannot resist themselves when they see a "FREE" sign.

Did I mention that the "FREE" sign is the key? <checks post> Yeppers: "FREE" gets 'em every time.

LOL! Thanks, everyone! We can certainly get it up to the curb. We've put all kinds of stuff up there and it always disappears, but for some reason I figured no one would want this washer.

A dish washer would just about fit into one of the city bins. But scrapping it would be better.

I just got a new dishwasher. But my problem is, i live in the suburbs. Im concerned old dishwasher could sit in front of house for days, weeks even

If you post a curb alert message about the dishwasher under the "free" section on Craigslist, someone will come out and pull it off your curb.

Someone in our neighborhood got rid of a non-functioning gas grill on the curb pretty quickly, and we live on a quiet, dead-end suburban street.

No. It's an old wive's tale.

It's a clothes washer, BTW.

If nobody takes it from your curb, Appliance Center in Maumee is a FREE recycling center for old Major Appliances. You can drop it off to us anytime. Hope this helps!

If he can load it up to take it to a free recycling place he can take it to one that will pay him for it, not mistaken you can just scrap it at Omnisource and get money for it.

We'd love to, acmanager and Linecrosser, but we don't have a truck available to us. Just a sedan and an SUV. Mr. Gamegrrl has put it up at the curb. We'll see what happens. Hope it vanishes. Soon.

That's good to know.

Just a little follow-up:

As reported, we put the washer up at the curb last night. Sometime after the rain started, an elderly gentleman knocked at our door asking about it. He was traveling on a bicycle. He asked if we would hold it for him until this morning. We said "No problemo".

I was at the office all day, and Mr. Gamegrrl was still at work when I got home, but the freakin' washer is STILL HERE.

Maybe it's just because I'm cranky about having to get a new washer... Perhaps it's because I'm ALWAYS cranky after a day at the corporate offices... But I am SO annoyed that we went out of our way to do accommodate this guy, and he left us hangin'.

If I had more energy, I'd go out there with a sledgehammer and turn it into little bits of metal, just for the heck of it.

Meh.

Items like old washing machines don't sit more than a couple hours at the curb where I live.

Elderly people who ride bikes in the rain are notoriously forgetful. Leave it out there and see if he comes back like it is the first time.

Reminds me of the time when I had some really high quality aluminum from a boat gas tank all cut up into chunks. A buddy and I set a chunk out by the curb and waited. We called it "scrapper fishing." We'd have a beer and a scrapper would come and pick up the chunk of aluminum. One by one they came by and either said nothing or were kinda rude. Finally, after resetting our bait for the fourth or fifth time, this barely running old S-10 pulls up. The guy gets out. He stops and says "Hi guys. Thanks for this aluminum. I can't believe that I was here first. This chunk probably made my night."
I said "Oh, you weren't here first. Do you want the rest of it?" We started hauling the rest of it out for him. He was astounded. He said that it was going to buy his family a week's worth of groceries. Nice man. It was a tiny victory for being nice, regardless of your circumstances. Had more fun and felt better than if I had hauled it to Edelman's.

That's a great story, justread. Thanks for posting it!

Well, I'm gonna have Mr. Gamegrrl roll the sucker to the curb again and see what happens.

That's an awesome story! :)

We had a lot more scrappers then. It was before the trash change.
It was a big tank with baffles in it that started out like 3 by 3 by 7 feet and was thick gauge. It really was a lot of aluminum. I have no idea what it would have been worth.

I was tired of mowing around it, so when the beer came up with that scrapper fishing idea I was in.

LOL! Well, I am happy to announce THE WASHER IS GONE! A family just picked it up at about 6 PM. I really liked their vehicle, and tried to tell what it was as they drove away. Looked like a truck version of a mullet: Fun (SUV) in the front, business (truck bed) in the back.

Oh yeah - the curb is THE best place to dispose of nearly anything. Over the 23 years we've lived in our home, I couldn't possibly remember everything we've set at the curb - and it is usually gone in minutes.

We've put out broken bricks, old glass blocks, a cracked fish aquarium, broken chairs - you name it. The old saying about "one man's junk being another's treasure" is indeed true. And, I am thankful for that. Saves me having to dispose of whatever the item is.