Helpful Tips to Make Spring Cleaning Easier for You By E. Muller
It’s that time of year again – time to give your house a good once-over. Read on for some tips to help make it easier to clear your home of things you no longer want or need. Electronics, batteries, etc. are so difficult to get rid of. If you have an old TV, refrigerator or cellphone you’d like to dispose of, you may want to try one or more of the following places:
Home Depot and Lowe’s will take aerosols, non-leaking car batteries, nickel metal hydride, lithium, nickel zinc and nickel cadmium and rechargeable batteries, cellphones, CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs), fertilizer, plastic garden pots and trays, latex paint, varnishes and lacquers, thinners and strippers and oilbased paint. If you buy a new appliance from Lowe’s, they will take away your old appliances for free. For Home Depot in Honesdale, call 570 253 3148; the number for Lowe’s in Scranton is 570 344 9200.
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AT&T, Best Buy, Dell, LG, Samsung, Sprint, Staples, T-Mobile and Walmart have various options like in-store drop-off sites, mail-in recycling programs, trade-ins, etc. to help you dispose of your old cellphones and mobile devices. Another place you may want to try is smartphonerecycling. com. They will erase your data, refurbish your device and send it to our troops. Visit their website for details!
Best Buy, Dell, HP, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Staples and Toshiba are places you may want to check out if you are getting rid of an old PC. In addition, Lexmark, Office Depot/OfficeMax, Sharp, and Staples will take printers and toner cartridges. Call to find out if they offer mail-in recycling, have drop-off sites or free haulaway options. Has your refrigerator conked out? PPL will take your old refrigerator for free and give you up to $35.00 for it. Easypeasy! Just call 800-342-5775.
If you have an old TV you want to replace, check out Best Buy, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Staples for either drop-off site recycling, recycling events or haul-aways.
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Habitat for Humanity accepts gently used appliances, building materials and home accessories for their Restore program. Now that you’ve reduced your Habitat for Humanity is located You may also want to consider stash of old electronics, why in Nanticoke PA and their phone not reduce the amount of mail switching magazines and bills to number is 570-258-0998. electronic delivery. you receive? (If you’re like And lastly, in Tanglwood Lakes, me, you get catalogs and other What about purging unwanted we have a trash compactor and junk mail that automatically emails from your inbox? recycling bins on Ruffed Grouse ends up in the garbage. Fortunately, there are a couple Drive. The compactor is for Wouldn’t it be nice to cut down of step-by-step online guides household garbage only (no on unwanted mail?) Luckily, to help you reduce the amount building materials, please); the you have several choices: of spam you receive. Check out recycling bins are for bottles, norton.com/internet-securityTo eliminate credit card cans, and paper. how-to-spam-spam-go-away offers, call 1-888-OPT-OUT and hellotech.com/blog/howPlease rinse out your food (1-888-567-8688.) to-stop-spam-emails. containers before placing them To opt in or opt out of in the bins and refrain from Cleaning out your closet (and insurance and credit card putting greasy pizza boxes the rest of your house)? The in the recycling bins. Most of offers, you may want to try Salvation Army in Honesdale is all, please do not place any optoutprescreen.com. This site once again accepting donations. Styrofoam or plastic bags in may ask you for your SSN, but They are located at 206 Willow the recycling bins. (I like to it is not mandatory. This site Avenue; their phone number is use a paper bag, fill it up with is authorized by TransUnion, 570-253-1101. They will accept recyclables, and place the whole Equifax and Experian. furniture, small appliances, thing in the bin). A national ‘do not mail’ list is clothing and shoes. They will directmail.com. Once you have not accept any baby items To stop receiving mail from certain mailing lists, go to dmachoice.org.
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