What to do with a King Mattress

[danbrotherston]

I have a king sized mattress, boxspring, sheets, and bed, that I will not be taking with me when I move. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get rid of it.

The mattress is clean and bug free, 8 years old, and in good condition, but even so it seems the local charities do not want it (and I can kinda understand why). Does anyone have any suggestions for donating it. I don't really care where it goes, I'd just rather it not end up in the landfill. (And it would be awesome if someone could transport it for me, but I can manage it if I have to).

(Alternatively, if anyone is interested in a king bed, or desk, or futon, please let me know in the DMs

Mattresses are a hard item to get rid of, unless it's the landfill. You could try posting it for free on Kijiji or something like that. Are you moving out of DTK?

Yeah, that's what I'm coming to realize.  Given it's not at the end of it's life, i'd be good not to go in the landfill, but if that's my only option, that's where it'll go.

I will post on Kijiji, but usually I like to ask 10-50 dollars depending on the item, to discourage both the flakey people you get with free items but more importantly, I've given a few items away for free and gotten people show up who appear to have a hoarding problem, and I don't really want to feed that. Unfortunately that does kinda make it harder to get rid of things.

I suspect there are sharing/exchange groups somewhere, but I'm not familiar with local ones (nor am I on Facebook).

Yes, we are moving, not just out of DTK, not even just out of Kitchener, for the moment we are staying in Picton, ON, but in the long term we'll be moving to the Netherlands, near Amsterdam. It's something we've been trying to do for a while now, and it seems the pieces are finally in place...well...except the COVID piece which will just not go away.