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Postby nuggety goodness » Thu May 19, 2011 4:47 pm

Hello friends, I'm looking to get a hold of some old haggard couches/recliners that I can use for a temporary building that our church has a lease in. I don't care how dirty they are because i can clean them up and/or use coverings...

Do you have any or know of anywhere I can get a hold of some? Appreciate it! Ta...
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby Rams52 » Thu May 19, 2011 5:11 pm

nuggety goodness wrote:Hello friends, I'm looking to get a hold of some old haggard couches/recliners that I can use for a temporary building that our church has a lease in. I don't care how dirty they are because i can clean them up and/or use coverings...

Do you have any or know of anywhere I can get a hold of some? Appreciate it! Ta...

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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Thu May 19, 2011 5:27 pm

auctions

pickles

they had a gem of a couch about 2 months ago for $40

i was tempted myself to pick it up
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby JAS » Thu May 19, 2011 6:11 pm

Depending how long 'temporary' is and if it's for some church charitable works you could even try asking a local furniture store to see if they would donate some in exchange for some good publicity.

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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby gadj1976 » Thu May 19, 2011 6:26 pm

One of those recliner shops give trade ins - but I don't know what they do with the old ones.

Ummm, dunno if this is the one I'm thinking of or not.

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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby Dog_ger » Thu May 19, 2011 7:21 pm

Is there a time limit to this?

Working in a nursing home I have to throw away a few at times.... :D

And old hospital beds. :D

The manual wind up kind. :D

Could supply a mattress with them maybe...? ;)

Old TV's....

The occasional piano/organ.

Sometimes fridges :roll:

Cane furniture.
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby Dirko » Thu May 19, 2011 11:09 pm

A couple of years ago I had a 3 year old couch (fold out bed) that I didn't need. I accidentally put a 5 cm tear in the back of it as I was moving it outside for the Salvo's to collect. Apart from that it was good as gold. We had it sitting in our sun room and never used it.

They didn't take it because of the tear, and told us that "the people who may need it wouldn't like torn furniture".....

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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby CENTURION » Thu May 19, 2011 11:18 pm

nuggety goodness wrote:Hello friends, I'm looking to get a hold of some old haggard couches/recliners that I can use for a temporary building that our church has a lease in. I don't care how dirty they are because i can clean them up and/or use coverings...

Do you have any or know of anywhere I can get a hold of some? Appreciate it! Ta...

I have 1 you can have, a large 2 seater, in pretty good nick too. you can't sell them these days, so you can have it.
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby JK » Thu May 19, 2011 11:39 pm

I inquired about one for you mate but apparently the owners disposed of it just yesterday.

Saw one tonight on the footpath in Royal Park, and if you did a few laps of the blocks you could probably take your pick lol.
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby zipzap » Fri May 20, 2011 8:32 am

Mate I've got two big arm chairs that are the comfiest seats ever, just too big for our house. They're a bit dirty from having them outside for a month or so now (but would clean up OK) and we tried the footpath with no luck, so I'd love someone to take them before they go to hard rubbish.

PM me, I can send you a pic if you want :)
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby Phantom Gossiper » Sat May 21, 2011 11:05 am

SJABC wrote:They didn't take it because of the tear, and told us that "the people who may need it wouldn't like torn furniture"..... :roll:

:? right because they are in a position to be picky
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Tue May 24, 2011 4:49 pm

nuggety goodness wrote:Hello friends, I'm looking to get a hold of some old haggard couches/recliners that I can use for a temporary building that our church has a lease in. I don't care how dirty they are because i can clean them up and/or use coverings...

Do you have any or know of anywhere I can get a hold of some? Appreciate it! Ta...


any updates on finding one?
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby Aerie » Tue May 24, 2011 8:46 pm

SJABC wrote:A couple of years ago I had a 3 year old couch (fold out bed) that I didn't need. I accidentally put a 5 cm tear in the back of it as I was moving it outside for the Salvo's to collect. Apart from that it was good as gold. We had it sitting in our sun room and never used it.

They didn't take it because of the tear, and told us that "the people who may need it wouldn't like torn furniture".....

:roll:


We had two older 2-seater lounges in reasonable condition which they didn't want and I also took about 6 boxes of clothes which they declined (said they would throw in the bin as they had so many clothes). Ended up taking them across the road to another charity who gladly took them. Also have had a perfectly good condition baby change table which they wouldn't take.
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby bulldogproud2 » Wed May 25, 2011 12:04 pm

Am confident that St. Vinnies will take most things that are usable. The only problem we have is when people dump items that are definitely no longer usable - they use the collection bins as 'rubish' bins.
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Re: Old couches/recliners

Postby Dirko » Wed May 25, 2011 1:59 pm

Phantom Gossiper wrote:
SJABC wrote:They didn't take it because of the tear, and told us that "the people who may need it wouldn't like torn furniture"..... :roll:

:? right because they are in a position to be picky


That's what I couldn't work out.

My next door neighbour saw me with them, and then grabbed it for his daughter as she moved out of home, and they use it as their everyday couch. She even sewed up the tear :)
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