10 Tips for Disposing of Your Appliances and Home Items

Disposing of your old appliances, electronics, and home furnishings can seem like an intimidating task. What should you keep? What can you give to charity or friends? What items can be dropped off at a recycling center? Where do you take the rest of your old stuff when it needs to go away forever? We don’t think about getting rid of household items until they break, get replaced by something new, or become so outdated that we no longer want to see them every day. When this happens, we know it’s time to get rid of some things. But where do you begin? Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to dispose of old appliances and home goods so they don’t end up in a landfill somewhere. Here are 10 tips for disposing of your appliances and home goods responsibly.