OK so here is the deal - I got a queen size bed to get rid of.. The matress is extra thick. My nornal trash service won't take it - the local trash place wants 40.00 for it. I have a trash cart that is normally 1/2 empty when it goes to the curb so..
Whats the best way to cut up the matress? The boxspring is already pretty much chopped up.
That's strange. We have bulk trash pickup once a month and they will pick up almost anything. Trash drop-off at the dump is free for city residents. Where do you live? Burning it a bad idea?
Mattresses are an extra fee at my local landfill too and I don't have large item pick up either.
I imagine tearing up a queen mattress is a huge mess. But for $40 and a trip to the dump, I would attempt to shred it too.
When I first moved in, I got fined 15.00 for having a 2x4 in my trash. It was an old wheel choock - maybe 10 inches long so i tossed it in the trash barrel...
Now I double bag everything.. PITA.. Burning is currently not allowed - Northern Indiana is where I am - out in the country so I don't get the benefits that the people in the city limites get (Tried - they actually check ID for adress)
Cut it open and insert a few pounds of raw meat in the mattress, then sew up the incision. Drag it out in the yard and ask all your neighbors to bring their dogs over. Problem solved!
GrantMLS wrote: When I first moved in, I got fined 15.00 for having a 2x4 in my trash. It was an old wheel choock - maybe 10 inches long so i tossed it in the trash barrel... Now I double bag everything.. PITA.. Burning is currently not allowed - Northern Indiana is where I am - out in the country so I don't get the benefits that the people in the city limites get (Tried - they actually check ID for adress)
Good grief! When I hear stuff like this, I'm glad to be a Virginia resident. The public use areas at our county landfills are excellent at accepting almost anything. They'll take up to 4 tires at a time, free. Mattress, no charge. Used motor oil, batteries, paints, flammable liquids--all accepted at no charge. Freon-bearing appliances such as A/C's and refrigerators carry a nominal disposal fee.
Maybe I will bring it with me to VIR... 
GrantMLS wrote: Maybe I will bring it with me to VIR...
Sure! If you don't do too good a job tying it on your roof, you might even get rid of it before you get here!
I just spent $20 to take a full minivan load to my local county dump. We get poor services in this county and ever resident has to contract their own garbage carrier from a list of approved carriers. At my old place (which was a condo) I paid $8 per month but they took anything and everything - unlimited, every week.
Kick it out of your truck in the red light district. Someone will find a good use for it.
Around here, people usually seem to get rid of their mattresses by propping them up on the donation boxes in the Target parking lot.
Do you have a local river or lake you can throw it into?
(I'm not serious)
GrantMLS wrote: When I first moved in, I got fined 15.00 for having a 2x4 in my trash. It was an old wheel choock - maybe 10 inches long so i tossed it in the trash barrel... Now I double bag everything.. PITA.. Burning is currently not allowed - Northern Indiana is where I am - out in the country so I don't get the benefits that the people in the city limites get (Tried - they actually check ID for adress)
This is the sort of thing that encourages people to just drop their stuff off at a local lot.
Reminds me of when they started doing motor oil recycling in California. I did my duty (don't remember what I used to do with it, but I remember my dad using it to kill weeds) and I went to the local shop that took oil. There I was informed by a rather embarrassed worker who stated he was supposed to collect a fee when taking oil!!
My comment (which he totally understood) was that "well, that's great, maybe I should just pour it in the ground". It's a bad idea to charge people to do the right thing when doing the wrong thing is free.
aircooled wrote: It's a bad idea to charge people to do the right thing when doing the wrong thing is free.
Wow! That's a "quotable quote" right there!
Step 1: Buy old van. Step 2: Insert old matress. Step 3: Profit.
I have in the past put mattresses in big dumpsters for a apartment complex or business. Now don't have to, the city has a weekly service that picks up that kind of stuff along with recycleables. Often leaving that stuff like old water heaters, fridges, washers and other big stuff never lasts long enough for the city to pick it up around here. Someone will drive by and pick it up for use. We joke that if you put something at the curb with a "make offer" sign on it it will disappear quickly.
thinking of painting it silver and putting it on the curb.. the metal scrappers are quick around here..
Buy a new one and the sellers usually take the old one away.
no need for a new one - it is being replaced by 2 cribs.
slowride wrote: Do you have a local river or lake you can throw it into? (I'm not serious)
That is one of my standard jokes I tell the tire store guys - "$2 for recycling a tire? just give me the tires and I will toss them into a creek by my house"
Kinda funny for car batteries too.
I thought you were supposed to burn tires?
Craigslist free?
I pitched a king sized mattress three weeks ago with no problems. For $40 I wouldn't have cut it up. I did cut up a boat one time because the trash guy said he couldn't haul a boat. A pile of fiberglass wasn't a problem though. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umr-COAUWs4
craigslist is where I get rid of stuff like that usually... free section "curb alert"
i'm glad our trash is kewl... toss it in the bin... the truck drives by and the mechanical arm grabs it and flips the trash into the top... and then 2x a month they have trucks come around to get the bigger things... the'll take old furniture and stuff but mostly they get the yard rubbish.
1988RedT2 wrote: Cut it open and insert a few pounds of raw meat in the mattress, then sew up the incision. Drag it out in the yard and ask all your neighbors to bring their dogs over. Problem solved!
Don't forget to post the video on You Tube.
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