These 15 Items Will NOT Be Accepted at Goodwill Stores in Indiana

If you’ve ever hosted a yard sale, you know the drill: you start with big dreams of making a little extra cash and clearing out the clutter, and then the day ends with a surprising amount of random stuff still sitting on your driveway. What do you do then?

One great option is to load up everything and head to Goodwill, because they always accept anything and everything you want to drop off. Right? I mean, that’s the beauty of a Goodwill store – every trip feels like a treasure hunt. One day you leave with a perfectly good coffee table, the next day it’s a vintage jacket, a stack of vinyl records, or a fondue pot you didn’t know you needed. The constant rotation makes it fun.

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BUT, before you back your SUV up to the donation door and dump a mystery box of life’s leftovers, it’s good to know that not everything is welcome. Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana has a list of items they can’t accept, even if they’re in decent shape.

Items Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana Will Not Accept

• Anything with personal info (bank statements, passports, checkbooks, medical records)
• Used tires
• Hot water heaters or furnaces
• Carpet or padding
• Mattresses, bed springs, sofa beds, hospital beds
• Cribs, car seats
• Household garbage
• Scrap lumber, concrete, bricks, stones
• Air conditioners
• Firearms
• Paint, chemicals, insecticides
• Food
• Large commercial desks or office cubicles
• Entertainment centers
• Televisions