Connor now has a bed for his mattress and the box spring was superfluous. We listed it on freecycle, but got no bites. It looked like the box spring was headed for the trash dump (we haul our trash to the city drop-off because the drop is about a mile from Finn's school, and it costs about $10-15 less per month than contracting to have it hauled. more on that another day), and because the trash drop-off charges $0.13 per pound, I was a little grumbly at the thought of paying $4 to dispose of our box spring (I'm wild-assed guessing that the box spring weighs ~30lbs).
But then I realized, hey, most of the weight in here is untreated wood and metal! The metal can be dumped for free at the city drop-off in the scrap metal bin, and the untreated wood can be dumped for free at the McNeil generating plant (and I'll be driving by McNeil in order to dump off yard waste at the city compost project soon, anyways). Woo-hee! Well... it took almost 20 minutes to disassemble it, which means I "paid myself" roughly $12/hour to do the job. Not exactly my going rate, but sometimes you just gotta do the "right thing".Here it is in its component parts. The random stuff that I had to pay to dump appeared to be <2lbs at the city drop-off:
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