Citizens braved a heat index of 112 degrees and high humidity Friday afternoon in City Park to take advantage of the best bargain in furniture shopping: free.
Furniture Amnesty Day has for six years provided people a chance to get rid of unwanted furniture all in one place and allow anyone else to pick up any of it for free. Usually, picking up large sofas for the family can be a terribly stressful experience, especially if not done online from a reliable source. However, Furniture Amnesty Day is a joyful, relaxing experience for many families looking for some free stuff. If you happen to miss Furniture Amnesty Day, then don’t panic you can easily check out something like this liquidated furniture sales to help you get the furniture that you want.
Linda Bachelor has helped with the event since the beginning and said there was plenty of furniture for the public to take advantage of — even though there was plenty of opportunity for would-be scientists to see if an egg could really be boiled on hot pavement that afternoon.
“It has been really hot, but even after our storm we had early this morning, we had a lot of furniture,” she said Friday. “We have more furniture this year than we’ve had the past few years.”
Bachelor said the event is a community collaboration between the City of Manhattan, the Riley County Police Department, the Manhattan Fire Department and the Konza United Way.
Bachelor called Furniture Amnesty Day the “biggest community-wide service event” the city does and that it helps keep the Little Apple less cluttered as the end of July is a big moving month as students get ready for the fall semester.
“Maybe people can use that instead of throwing it away,” she said. “And it really helps keep furniture off the sides of streets and alley ways.
“It’s a service to everyone.”
Bachelor also said furniture that is beyond repair is taken care of by the city and sent to its transfer station to be recycled.
