Where to donate non-sellable house clearance items

wwl

Clearing my late Mother's house - a few boot-fuls of better quality re-sellable stuff has gone to the charity shop, but I still have a ton of things like crockery, cutlery, kitchen & cookware etc. which would be perfectly useable after a quick trip through the dishwasher, and I'm sure there must be someone that could make use of it - e.g. people setting up home on a very tight budget.
However I'm struggling to find anywhere (NE London). I'd be happy to drop it off locally to avoid it going to the dump.
Any suggestions ?

Owain_Moneysaver

Salvation Army
Local homelessness support group
Women's aid group

Savvy_Sue

Freecycle.

I don't know how much you've got left, but I consider the money we paid to the house clearance service after we'd taken what we wanted from Mum's house to be stupendous VFM, even though it wasn't cheap. I don't know if they all operate the same way, but this company were sorting and taking to charity shops, then the local recycling service, so very little was going to landfill. Mum would have been proud.

Mind you, we had a large house full of not very good furniture to get rid of too, and the thought of trying to get that out of the house ourselves was exhausting.

wwl

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Freecycle.

I don't know how much you've got left, but I consider the money we paid to the house clearance service after we'd taken what we wanted from Mum's house to be stupendous VFM, even though it wasn't cheap. I don't know if they all operate the same way, but this company were sorting and taking to charity shops, then the local recycling service, so very little was going to landfill. Mum would have been proud.

Mind you, we had a large house full of not very good furniture to get rid of too, and the thought of trying to get that out of the house ourselves was exhausting.

I've had limited luck with our local Freegle, even with easily sellable stuff - I think it's too affluant an area!
How much was your house clearance?

Savvy_Sue

Just over £2K ...

Big house. Full of stuff. Some of it went to auction, not sure whether we've made a profit there as the auction house charged a valuation fee then came and took away what they wanted. The item of greatest value was the bedroom full of wool, but that's when we discovered that they were not prepared to auction everything to which they'd assigned a value, but they would auction some things to which they had not assigned a value. ???

However, it gave us peace of mind. None of us had time / inclination to Ebay stuff. This way we knew that anything which was actually valuable should realise something.

We actually cleared the wool ourselves, to various good causes and knitting projects (teacosy for the cafe anyone? see July 17th entry, and one of my siblings organised a Knitivity group) because the house clearance lady wasn't sure where she'd take it to make sure it was used.

If we were doing it ourselves, I'm sure we'd still be at it. As it is, after a couple of months of us dipping in and out and seeing things we wanted, we had a clear but minimally furnished house to market, and it all just went once we had a completion date.

asajj

Homeless shelters. refugee shelters would like them I believe.
Also for London, have a look at this

http://www.londonreuse.org/donate/donate-household-goods/

PlutoinCapricorn

There is a big Oxfam shop in the Kingsland Road near Dalston that sells lots of old household items. I have just taken loads of glasses, plates, cooking pots there myself, after helping clear a flat after the tenant left.

wwl

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

There is a big Oxfam shop in the Kingsland Road near Dalston that sells lots of old household items. I have just taken loads of glasses, plates, cooking pots there myself, after helping clear a flat after the tenant left.

Their website says "Please only bring items that are in saleable condition to the shop A useful rule of thumb is that if you wouldn’t buy it from a shop, don’t bring it in!"

I think I'm basically down to stuff that people would be glad to have for free, but probably wouldn't ( or can't) pay for.

GazHatesBanks

If you're near an Emmaus they usually take anything in as they will give it to the people they are helping if they can't sell it.