Offer your own items for or for sale online: Craig's List - the ad's FREE! Buy Local Scarborough is a new not-for-profit created to help the public understand why buying from local merchants is important and critical to keeping your community vibrant and viable: Buy Local Scarborough Waste Land: Opening 10/29/2010 in NYC, an uplifting and inspirational film, “...the SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE of documentaries, an inspiring, deeply moving crowd-pleaser!” or see the trailer here

Sell it or give it away online:
Craigslist.org See Maine listings at www.maine.craigslist.org and click ‘POST’ to enter your listing.

Freecycle Yahoo groups like freecycle exist to facilitate direct giving only – not selling.
Requires joining the Yahoo group, creating a listing, and corresponding with those who reply.

Charities:
Catholic Charities Maine Refugee and Immigration Services
Tarlan Ahmadov, Lead Case Manager
207-523-2729
tahmadov@ccmaine.org

Furniture Bank
207-221-8168 (leave a message)
Offers assistance to the mentally disabled; a volunteer will return your call to arrange meeting you at the furniture bank (a church basement in downtown Portland) and provide assistance with unloading.
Occasionally a truck can be available for picking up from your location, but expect to drop your furniture off after making arrangements with the volunteer.

Goodwill 207-761-8452

Salvation Army 207-878-8555

Consignment:
Several consignment shops exist in the greater Portland area - each operates a bit differently.

Last resort:
Dump Guy
Garrett
Will haul all furniture to the dump in Cumberland and York Counties
207-450-5858

BE MINDFUL OF THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO YOUR PICKUP LOCATION, OFFER DELIVERY, OR CONSIDER PLACING THE ITEM WHERE IT CAN BE VIEWED WITHOUT SHOWING PEOPLE INTO YOUR HOME.

Thanks for recycling, donating, and facilitating re-use of your furniture.

Endicott Home Furnishings LLC has no connection, affiliation, or direct experience with any of the parties above, and offers this list free of charge as a resource to promote re-use, charitable or other donations & reduce landfill waste. We assume no responsibility for how the above information is used, omissions or errors, or any resulting outcome.