Where to donate working CRT monitors |
Loading ...Our office transition from CRT to LCD monitors is almost complete. We have been starting to stockpile some unused CRT monitors:
We tried to take them to Goodwill and they didn’t want them. And here I thought Goodwill took everything? These monitors are all in good working condition and could probably be sold locally for $25+ each, but we wanted to donate them instead. My wife came up with the idea to see if the local school computer lab needed them. Great idea. We donated a digital camera to the school paper last week.
Our son checked and the high school would love to take them off our hands. Time to load them into the car and say goodbye to CRT (forever?). We’re keeping one behind as a backup just in case something goes down, but I’d imagine by this time next year we’ll have an extra LCD monitor or two. Then they’ll go the way of floppy disks.
Any other good places to donate working CRT monitors, keyboards, mice, etc?
My Father-in-Law took some from his office to a womens’ shelter operated by a local Church about a month ago. Guaranteed that some group like that would want them.
Comment by Kevin Ansley — October 25, 2007 @ 12:08 pm PST
Yep, schools, churches, shelters and non-profit orgs.
Comment by ^Lestat — October 25, 2007 @ 3:41 pm PST
If you’ll be up in Seattle before the end of November, Interconnection.org (just north of Gasworks in Wallingford) is accepting monitors made after January 2000 for free when you mention FreeCycle Seattle. I’ll forward you the email.
Comment by Andrew Ferguson — October 25, 2007 @ 10:17 pm PST
Thank you Kevin, Lestat and Andrew (got the mail) for the additional suggestions.
Comment by TDavid — October 26, 2007 @ 6:35 am PST
Great idea from your wife, TD! I’ve got an old CRT that I was thinking of giving to a hardware support guy I know, but if the local school can use it instead, that would be better. I’ll check it out.
Comment by Sterling Camden — October 27, 2007 @ 3:28 pm PST