Heartbreak, Cheating Leads to Great Deal on Used Mattress7/31/13 8:30pm Have you ever unknowingly slept next to a lying-ass cheating piece of shit? Then this Craigslist ad is your cathartic-ass therapy. There's a delightfully angry person in San Francisco, and they need to get this fucking mattress out of their life. Come get this Plush-ass queen Simmons Beautyrest out of my life - $150 The pain of my broken heart now means less back pain for you! This is basic law of transference type shit. I'm pretty sure the physics work out, but then again - I paid my college roommate who was a scholarship student to do all my take home exams so I can't be entirely sure. So here's the deal: $150 and it's yours. Get this fucking mattress out of my life. It's a plush queen-sized Simmons Beautyrest. It's three years old, and feels like you're sleeping on a fucking cloud - even when you're unknowingly sleeping next to a lying cheater. In a bad relationship and have to lie next to the constant reminder that you didn't go to grad school so that you could move and get engaged?
Then this is the bed for you, it will get you to fucking REM and for 6-8 hours every night you'll forget that you're sleeping next to a sociopath. There are no stains, and this thing hasn't seen action in a while. I thought about giving it away for free, but then I figured, what the hell - sell the bed, and go buy a Fleshjack and a handle of whiskey. And that's how I settled on $150. This thing is priced to move. It's worth much more than the price, and I figure that even someone who is looking at Craigslist on a Tuesday morning could easily afford it. So don't email me with your lowball offers. And don't agree to $150 and get to my house and offer $100. Because that would make you a lying cheater, and I would rather set the mattress on fire and throw it out of the window rather than sell it to you. Seriously, I will lose it. Priority will go to those who can come get this literal bed of lies today, as I've got the entire Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette discographies to get through. And no, I won't help you get it out to your car.
There are only eleven steps up to my apartment. You figure it out. I was going to sell the mattress for $200 but I figured it was worth the $50 to watch someone else have to struggle over this oppressive burden. Not a deal-breaker, but it would help immensely if you looked like my ex as I would love to see an entitled, Ivy-League educated asshole struggle with this thing. But totally not necessary.Can anyone take this person's fucking mattress please? Then, ask them to write more Craigslist ads. [Craigslist via Ellen Cushing]“We ended up buying a Tuft & Needle mattress for way less than retail and it was delivered within an hour of our visit.” “Being a sceptic, I didn't hold any of that back when I met Pete and purchased a latex mattress with organic cover.” “In the end I got a great mattress, box spring and bed frame delivered to me the same day.” "Ok, so I will give this review in two stages. First, I just moved into a 2BR and wanted something daybed-ish in my office area (second bedroom)..
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Funded by an $11 fee that customers pay every time they buy a new mattress or box spring, the program — called Bye Bye Mattress — also mandates that retailers dispose of old mattresses when delivering a new one. The Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act facilitates the turning of old bed furnishings into a variety of consumer goods. The outer fabric and inner foam become carpet padding and building insulation. The springs get converted into steel products. The wood scaffolding is ground up and turned into mulch. “It’s just amazing,” said state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, who sponsored the legislation, which passed in 2013. She helped create the program after hearing complaints from West Oakland merchants fed up with mattresses being discarded in their neighborhoods. A similar Bye Bye Mattress program started last year in Connecticut, and one is expected to begin this spring in Rhode Island. The idea, Hancock said, is to cut down on the amount of bulky garbage that piles up on sidewalks.
“It’s a health hazard,” she said. “If it rains, you get mold, insects and rats.” Mattresses have long been a source of blight in many Bay Area cities. More than 6,000 were left out in Oakland last year, mostly in the poor flatland neighborhoods. Between 4,000 and 8,000 were abandoned in nearby San Francisco. Public works employees in Berkeley cleared 1,100 mattresses off the sidewalk between June 2014 and June 2015. Because of their size and consistency — wood and metal encased in polyurethane foam — mattresses can sit moldering on the street for years. Moving them is a headache for city workers, and a strain on the public purse. In Oakland, taxpayers spent $5.5 million last year clearing mattresses and other oversize junk off the streets. The problem is particularly egregious in neighborhoods such as West Oakland, which struggles to attract business. “If you’re in an area that already has economic problems, mattresses can be a tipping-point issue,” Hancock said.
“They make the neighborhood look blighted and feel unsafe.” Yet getting rid of them was never easy, said Arthur Boone, a veteran of the recycling business who ran a mattress dismantling factory in East Oakland in the 1990s. “The garbage people hate mattresses because they tear up bulldozers,” Boone said. “You have to separate them by hand.” But that process can’t happen in a landfill, so mattresses have to be hauled to special plants like the one Boone ran, where workers strip apart their materials. One such place, the DR3 Recycling center in Oakland, has been collecting used mattresses since 2000. It’s now one of the state’s free drop-off spots. When a mattress arrives at the DR3 warehouse, it gets stripped, skinned, eviscerated and fed through a shearing machine. Its springs are crushed into bales and sent off to steel factories. Its cotton is bundled, its wood split apart. Employees Nery Garcia works on separating materials from a mattress at Oakland's DR3 Mattress Recycling Center in Oakland, California, on Friday, January 15, 2016.
A new state law allows residents to recycle mattresses for free. A new state law allows residents to recycle ... more Facility manager Robert Jack gives a tour of Oakland's DR3 Mattress Recycling Center in Oakland, California, on Friday, January 15, 2016. Behind him at right is a company choosing select mattresses to reuse materials for new mattresses. Since the statewide recycling program began Jan. 1, DR3 Recycling has seen a huge spike in business, said General Manager Robert Jaco. Now it pulls in hundreds more mattresses per day than it did before the law kicked in. The Bay Area has five other free recycling sites in San Leandro, Hayward, San Jose, Sunnyvale and American Canyon, but Hancock hopes that more will sprout up, now that the Bye Bye Mattress program is in place. “We’ve created a market,” she said. Mike O’Donnell, head of the Mattress Recycling Council — which runs the California program, as well as its counterparts in Connecticut and Rhode Island — is similarly optimistic.