lost everything in sandy where to get nice cheap furniture and other stuff to help????

ikea

A few hours north of you in the mtns of PA and NY you will find help...

I'll be throwing out most of my furniture when I move. It's not worth it to move that stuff, even though it's in good condition. And Craigslist is getting to risky.

This is what people do where I live.

They cruise through several neighborhoods after 9 p.m. the evening before the trash pickup is scheduled in the neighborhoods the next morning.

This is how they find all sorts of still useable presentable furniture and other household goods (lamps, shelves, wastebaskets, etc.) sitting at the curb waiting for the garbage men to pick it up.

Whatever furniture they find that they like they get to take home for free.

There is nothing wrong about doing this, you'll know if the furniture you find is worth taking with you.

Many times all the furniture you find needs is a new "foot" on a sofa, slipcovers for couch cushions, resurfacing of a table, gluing of a desk drawer, or painting of legs and/or adding of chair pads for a set of kitchen chairs.

The real trick is to cruise middle class and upper class neighborhoods in suburban areas that are far from where Hurricane Sandy caused so much damage and hardship.

The next best thing is to hit the "moving sales" early on Sunday morning. get the local newspaper and look up garage sales/moving sales in the classified ads.

People tend to let go of any extra furniture they have when they are moving out of town. They cannot take everything they would like to take with them and that is your good luck.

Lastly, when hotels remodel you can often get really good deals on the older furniture that they are replacing.

I wish you good luck and happy hunting.

I know Hurricane Sandy was truly an especially devastating storm. I am sorry that you and your family have had to go through what must be a very challenging and extended (exhausting) period of time.

God bless you.

I live on the other side of the country from you, but I have heard mention of a website called "freecycle". Apparently you can get tools, furniture, bicycles, and all sorts of stuff for free or very little money. A few days ago right on this Forum a poster said that he had been a window washer and basically supplied his entire business from Freecycle, even the ladders and squeegees! (It was on a thread about how to make money during this crappy Economy without working for someone else.)

I'm not sure if Freecycle is locked in to a certain area, or if people from all over the U.S. use it, but it's worth a shot to check it out!

If you are really without furniture, you might try going to Goodwill or one of the other similar organizations and after you explain your predicament they will give you a voucher for a certain amount to enable you to shop in their store at no charge. And don't forget that, in addition to furniture, they have clothing, kitchen appliances, plates/cups/silverware, bedding, books, etc.

You might even contact friends who haven't been affected by the storm and ask them if they have any furniture that they could "loan" you until you get back on your feet. Chances are they will, and they'll just GIVE it to you just to clear out their garage. I know I have a whole GARAGE full of furniture, but as I said, I'm on the other side of the country.

I am SO sorry for what you guys are going through, it must be overwhelming to try to deal with it, and from what I hear the government isn't coming through in the least for you. But the best plan is to just take little steps, one at a time, and eventually life will return to a somewhat "normal" flow. Good luck, and may God be with you.

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First Presbyterian Church of Manasquan NJ. They are wonderful.
Also try any of the other churches in Manasquan. They are really trying to help and I don't think it will make a difference that you are from out of state.
If it does please let me know. I am from the area and NY'ers come every summer to the beach. Second home to all of you.

Get a garbage bag and fill it full of those styrofoam chips they ship stuff with and you have an instant beanbag chair.

craigslist...you can get some stuff for free as well...Good luck to you

You might also try contacting churches, particularly the Latter Day Saints (Mormons). They have thrift stores called Deseret, and lots of OTHER organizations send people to THEM for help.

Card table about $40. fold out chairs about 20 a piece.

and 5 stars. This thread may provide some ideas for others who are affected by the storm too. I know it can be hard to think straight when you are in the middle of a disaster.

Craigslist, thrift stores have proven useful for me (free TV, fridge, tables from CL). Won't be the nicest quality but it'll do. Else you can improvise on some stuff (like tables).

You'd be amazed what you can get away with if you have the guts to do it. Rent a cube van and drive around to office buildings. Go to the reception desk and give some phony delivery slip you mocked up on your printer to the girl at the desk. Tell her you're picking up the old couch and delivering the new one for the lobby. Take the old couch and throw it into the truck and fuck off. By the time she figured out you wern't coming back you'd be long gone.

You could get some top quality beautiful leather stuff for your pad.

you're giving advice on how to steal to someone who lost everything in Sandy? Shame on you, you asshole

Thank u guys for the help. I bookmarked all the sites right now before I get furniture I have to first come up wit the down payments for the contractors to rebuild that'd the hard part as I been out of work for 6 months due to health issues

Fema I'm still waiting on. So as of now living in parents house again sleeping on couch 3 ppl 1 couch 5 year old son not a Cool situation but I gotta do sum tin bout it. My ebay business go it nwiped out also I'm almost at full recovery with my health issue so I'll be gong back to work soon

Any other ideas would be nice.

If anybody wises to donate even a dollar u b really cool to do so I got PayPal

If anybody wants I'll sell my pictures of the aftermath of the tsunami we had my fema pics of house and the neighborhood.

Just send me an email you'll be helping a family get back on their feet its been hardest on my son.

All these charities people are donating to don't do shit for the victims where's my help to rebuild where's my help to pay for supplies to rebuild in can do the work myself just can't afford the supplies and new tools since there covered in salt water rust

My email is. [email protected]. I made a new email expecting tons of spam

If I'm not supposed to post an email I'm sorry u can delete if no violated don't ban me please this site is my second home we'll my first as my apart,emt got wiped of the map

ps where are you posting from

You need to look at which tips seem like a "blue light"or out of the blue spontaneous idea to you. If you make a list and visualize a list and placei ton your refrigerator with magnets around it, I found great furniture and exactly what you list shows up for you.Habitat for Humanity has furniture some time.

Put a furniture list on local craigs list saying wanted such and such devastated but recovering Sandy experiencer needing furniture. There is someone moving out of the area giving up you can just take the whole furniture off their hands so they don't have to pay people to help them move it out to get rid of it. Say "need some furniture off your hands? Well I decided to stay but my furniture already took a hike or needs to..."

Thanks again guys u guys are awesome even at 3am

I am posting from midland beach Staten island

More ideas or people places free stuff

Thanks keep it goin

Any other salvation army type places?

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You need to see the "Special Man"...
He'll let you have it with no problem!

Salvation army stores, thrift shops, consignment stores, Bob's Furniture (we have these in MA don't know about NY but I think so).

Omg bobs furniture is horrible my bed was from bobs and the memory foam stopped remembering after a year

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It is 100% free.....nothing is allowed to be sold or bought....only free....

You wouldn't beleive some of the treasures some people are willing to give away for free.

Also, you can post whatever it is that you are wanting to get for free, ie., furniture, bedding, clothes, etc. Just be very specific. Include sizes, et.

A friend of mine who is having a lot of financial difficulty was even able to get SEVERAL pounds of frozen meat on freecycle, (which is risky, I know - but sometimes being poor means being willing to take risks. Plus, it was in a very nice township and you have to go to a person's house to get their stuff - so there is a level of accountability there).

Good luck, OP.

Just think of all the thousands of homes abandoned - full of new furniture that were all cleared out and sent to the trash during the foreclosure frenzy.

That ought to make you sick about now.

3.5 hrs. south of you approximately. Have a decent couch and 2 chairs in good condition, if you have/can use a pick up to come get.

I put furniture out by the trash cans with a FREE sign. It is never there by the time the trash truck comes

Craigslist NYC free section. It does seem to be a disaster area, given the slim pickings. But keep an eye on it, there's good stuff out there-

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