Hi mamas! 
: I come here and lurk at times but this is my first post in your lovely forum. TIA for any ideas you may have to offer up! 
Well here's the thing. DH and I have a 20 inch TV that we've had for about 6 years that was given to me by a friend of mine who had it for about 5 years before that and on Christmas Eve '05 it finally went kaput. Or at least the picture did. We think that it's a bulb or something that blew but the volume and all works fine. We went and got a new one for what we believe would be about the same price for attempting to fix the old one but now we don't know what to do with the old TV.
We don't want to just toss it in the dumpster as there might be someone who could fix it that would like a TV and we would feel horribly about putting a major appliance in the trash and just acting like well OK, now it's gone, out of sight out of mind and all that b/c we all know that that's certainly not the case.
We live smack dab in the middle of Atlanta, have no car, nor do we want one at this particular juncture, and are not sure what we should do about this. We thought about trying to donate it somewhere as maybe someone could fix it or something to that effect, however, we are not sure if there is any charity or such out there that takes appliances, fixes them, and gives them to people who could use said items. Also, transporting the TV is a problem for us with the whole no car issue and all (that freaking thing is HEAVY!). If we could find someplace that's not too far, we're on a paper thin budget here, we could take a cab to get it there.
Anyway, sorry for the long post
. It's just that we have hardly any recycling facilities here in the ATL and of the ones we do have DH and I can't get to them in a practical manner. I already feel absolutely aweful about the trash that we have to throw away everyday, the majority of it recyclable. 
I really wish that recycling was the law here. Both DH and I work in restaurants and have done so at a few over the years and the amount of waste is mindblowing . 
Without getting on too much of a 
and derailing my own thread 
, all in all we strive everyday to try and do better with our own impact on this issue.
So I ask,do any of you mamas have any ideas about how to handle this whole TV business? Many thanks to anyone who took the time to read my longwinded but humble post!
Much love,
: I come here and lurk at times but this is my first post in your lovely forum. TIA for any ideas you may have to offer up! Well here's the thing. DH and I have a 20 inch TV that we've had for about 6 years that was given to me by a friend of mine who had it for about 5 years before that and on Christmas Eve '05 it finally went kaput. Or at least the picture did. We think that it's a bulb or something that blew but the volume and all works fine. We went and got a new one for what we believe would be about the same price for attempting to fix the old one but now we don't know what to do with the old TV.
We don't want to just toss it in the dumpster as there might be someone who could fix it that would like a TV and we would feel horribly about putting a major appliance in the trash and just acting like well OK, now it's gone, out of sight out of mind and all that b/c we all know that that's certainly not the case.
We live smack dab in the middle of Atlanta, have no car, nor do we want one at this particular juncture, and are not sure what we should do about this. We thought about trying to donate it somewhere as maybe someone could fix it or something to that effect, however, we are not sure if there is any charity or such out there that takes appliances, fixes them, and gives them to people who could use said items. Also, transporting the TV is a problem for us with the whole no car issue and all (that freaking thing is HEAVY!). If we could find someplace that's not too far, we're on a paper thin budget here, we could take a cab to get it there.
Anyway, sorry for the long post
. It's just that we have hardly any recycling facilities here in the ATL and of the ones we do have DH and I can't get to them in a practical manner. I already feel absolutely aweful about the trash that we have to throw away everyday, the majority of it recyclable. I really wish that recycling was the law here. Both DH and I work in restaurants and have done so at a few over the years and the amount of waste is mindblowing . Without getting on too much of a and derailing my own thread , all in all we strive everyday to try and do better with our own impact on this issue.So I ask,do any of you mamas have any ideas about how to handle this whole TV business? Many thanks to anyone who took the time to read my longwinded but humble post!
Much love,
Failing that- I'm a horrible person- I'd dump it.
DH and I have been getting more and more into crafts over the last year or so and this sounds so neat. I'm gonna run this by him.
Glad we didn't wait any longer! This brother and sister who drove up to the store in a cab, that we mistakenly thought was ours, offered to give us a ride if no cab had showed up by the time they were done shopping. That was so awesome. 
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