Setback on getting rid of the futon frame. The dogs chewed on one side. It's a cosmetic thing, but the Goodwill wants stuff in perfect shape, so even more than the chews, they want it with the mattress. (If they saw the mattress they'd groan under the weight of it.)
I have a couple of options. Now that it is out of the garage, I don't want to put it back. I could take it to the recycle center and they'd put it in a stack to go in the landfill. They don't recycle other stuff than glass, plastic, the usual bin stuff. The rest of sorted solid waste.
Or, I could put it at the curb ahead of the regular trash pickup. Put it out on Saturday afternoon, trash picked up at crack of dawn Monday. If it isn't picked up by someone (who with a little effort can unscrew and replace the chewed planks and can decide if they want to put cushions or a mattress on it) I'll put it back in the truck and take it to the center. I don't think the weekly trash guys will take it. Only during our bulky waste pickup time. It's in the back of the truck until the weekend then.
Oh, well.
Pretty soon I'm going to be getting rid of several small televisions. They're not worth spending the money for the converters for HD TV in Febrary 2009. They're scattered around the house now, mostly for keeping up with weather radar in bad weather. I don't need them all, but have found a use for each of them. It hardly seems fair to give them to Goodwill--they're swamped, but at the recycle center they have a trailer where I can take the old stuff. They test it and decide if they want to use it or not. The rest they have a program for reycling electronic components (at least, I think they do. Job training.)
The room I haven't tackled much at all but really needs decluttering is the closet in my office. Where all of my old college papers and research stuff lives. Big job, and one I need to do soon. I'm trying to put this job behind me in April so I can do other stuff from here on out.