How do I get rid of my bed/bed frame?

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1. 粗大ゴミ回収 look this up on google and plug in your city. Should be be able to get some quotes. Call around for the cheapest one.

2. If it’s still usable, jmty.jp
   I just gave away a sofa for free, need to write in Japanese though.

3. Don’t know where you live but breaking it apart with a saw/wrench, tying it all up and putting it in the garbage area could be an option.

4. Municipal bulky waste collection is the cheapest option, but because time is limited, you may need to rely on private companies to pick it up. It costs some money, but they usually come and get it done quickly.

   [https://gominavi.com/area.php?c=1](https://gominavi.com/area.php?c=1)

5. Call your municipal waste department on Monday, tell them you have a single bed you want to dispose of as 粗大ゴミ, buy the sticker that you are supposed to place on the piece to cover the disposal cost at your local konbini (normally less than 1,500 yen for a single bed), disassemble the bed and tie the poles together with a string or duct tape, put it out in the street in front of where you live, and place the sticker where it can be easily seen. They’ll tell you to put it out the morning of the day of the pickup, but you’re just going to have to ignore that.

   If you are leaving before Monday (because the waste department won’t be open on Sundays), then you will have to ask someone else to do it for you. I’d try the landlord.

   If you can’t get anybody to help you, I guess you will have to go to a hardware store to get some tools to cut your bed into small enough pieces to fit in the usual garbage bags.

   Or, you can leave the bed tied up and ready to dispose of, tape on an envelope containing a letter of apology and money for disposing of the bed plus extra as a thank you to the cleaning crew.

6. Post it on Tokyo Sayonara group on FB

7. A friend’s experience: he went to a local recycle store and asked the guy to come over. Instead of selling the stuff to the recycle store, my friend had to pay the recycle store to take the stuff away.

8. If there’s a recycle shop nearby, you could ask them to come look at it and either pay you for it if they want it, or just charge you to throw it away for you. That’s what I did with my furniture/misc items when I moved out of Japan the first time.

9. Private companies is your best bet. I was replacing an old single bed with a couch and I called 粗大ゴミ回収　services in my municipality but they said their earliest availability is in 3 weeks. The sofa was scheduled to arrive in a couple of weeks so I called a private company: More expensive but faster. They did the dismantling on site and left a clean space for the sofa.

10. Have you tried the Mottainai fb group? If not 粗大ゴミ

11. Too many people ghost you on free give away groups on Facebook, I have experienced this too, sadly. If you want to make sure you get rid of it in time without any further issues, I agree with everyone else who said get a private company to take it away.