What's the best way to get rid of an old mattress? Wrong answers only. Worst idea I'll actually do.

I will confirm that I did it by posting “I did it” here. This will negate any need for any type of photographic or other tangible evidence because I’m an honest person and you’re horrible for suggesting otherwise.

Edit: Bunch of damn pyros in this thread.

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Tanoh@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 136d (4 replies)

Eat it.

kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 136d (2 replies)

...and we're done here

Kraiden@piefed.social · 15 pts · 135d (1 reply)

g'luck op. Remember, one bite at a time

FaceDeer@fedia.io · 5 pts · 135d

That'll take too long. Eat it five bites at a time.

db2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 136d (5 replies)

Tie it to the roof of your car, preferably a 25-30 year old subcompact with bald tires and head for the freeway. Make sure to use string, not rope, and don't waste money on too much string.

Enjoy the drive and the problem just goes away.

kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 135d (4 replies)

fuck I actually did this once. I didn't tie it on, but I was driving the car and suddenly there was no mattress

otacon239@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 135d (2 replies)

It generally helps if you tie it on

kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d

fuck it, I'm leaving it

elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d

Tie one on? I don't think that mixes with driving...

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 135d

See. It works.

Asafum@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 136d (1 reply)

Light it on fire while it's still in your room. No need to move anything!

gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 135d

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 29 pts · 136d (1 reply)

Just stack the new mattress on top of the old one. Problem solved.

FaceDeer@fedia.io · 8 pts · 135d

The bed just keeps getting comfier and comfier over time.

smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 136d (2 replies)

Take it to the country, find a 10-12" culvert under a driveway or access, pull a winch line through the culvert, attach it firmly to the mattress, winch until the mattress is all the way in the culvert, cut the winch line, and you're done.

Optional: call one of those YouTube drain clearing guys.

gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 136d (1 reply)

You’ve given this a suspiciously impressive amount of thought.

smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 135d

I plead the 5th.

And I'll be disappointed if you don't do it.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 136d (1 reply)

Mail it to the Whitehouse collect.

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d

Collect?

Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 136d (1 reply)

I was at a party once where they burned a mattress, actually it wasn't really a party, just a meth heads house at night time. So you could do that.

toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org · 5 pts · 135d

Actually it wasn't really night time either, was it?

db2@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 135d (2 replies)

Everything is a dildo if you're brave enough.

Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 135d (1 reply)

Dildos are supposed to be reusable, you know, not just dissappear. Sounds like someone needs to have a big clear-out.

db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d

That's on Thursdays at the community center.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 135d

Fire cleanses all.

Best if done in the living room so your house gets all the smokey goodness.

ikidd@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 135d

Poke a hole in it and grease it up. Put it at the end of your driveway with a sign that says "Free Fuckable Mattress, first come, first serve!"

Thoven@lemdro.id · 12 pts · 135d

Tear some holes in it, sprinkle in nuts, and leave in your backyard. Congratulations: you now have a rodent hotel!

doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 11 pts · 135d (6 replies)

Attach a rope to it, tie it to the back of some kind of lifted 4x4 or truck, and have a buddy drag it around through the fields while you ride on top of it.

billwashere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d (4 replies)

Dammit… had to delete my comment because I said almost the exact same thing. I’m glad I’m not the only insane one.

doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 134d (3 replies)

Have you seen the video to HARDY's "Rednecker"?

billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d (2 replies)

No I have not. I’ll go look for it.

Edit: Well shit…. I guess I’m more redneck than I thought. Not surprised since I grew up in WV.

doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 134d (1 reply)

I grew up in Portland, San Francisco and Duesseldorf but I live in Redneck parts of southern Ohio now. Cheers!

billwashere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Yeah I live in very rural NC now. I’ve always been this weird mix of redneck and computer nerd. Like I’d totally do the mattress surfing thing but probably rig up LEDs and a web cam to it.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 135d

This is a man of culture.

Pirtatogna@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 135d

Hang it on a wall as a statement piece or art with all the suspicious looking yellow stains.

--Edit--

This method has additional merit in that you don't actually even get rid of it.

MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 136d

Shred it to bits and smoke it through a bong on public transit

mech@feddit.org · 9 pts · 136d

Put it in a room with my cat for 30 minutes

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 135d

Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 136d (1 reply)

bonfire time

gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 136d

This reminds me when I was a grad student at CU Boulder, one of the frat houses decided to get rid of an old couch by dragging it out into the street and setting on fire. Became a running joke in town for years afterward.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 135d

Break into a neighbor's house and put it under their mattress.

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 135d

Use it as a surfboard.

Denjin@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 135d (2 replies)

Cut a hole in it and fuck it. Keep doing that with new holes until it with falls apart or rots from the inside out.

BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d (1 reply)

That's fine for foam mattresses, but the inner spring type give me lacerations.

Denjin@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 135d

Win/win

Hello_there@fedia.io · 6 pts · 135d

Throw it in front of your house and leave it there. When asked by your neighbors, say "it showed up there yesterday"

YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 135d

The West Virginia method: take it outside, lean it against your trailer, and forget about it.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 136d

Donate it to your local indoor climbing wall

depletedDefenses@fedinsfw.app · 5 pts · 135d

Throwing it into the power lines?

wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 5 pts · 135d

Nativity scene, where all of the characters are Barbie’s. Preferably the life sized ones. Dressed in furry costumes. Some of which should be missing limbs, heads, etc. Apply makeup liberally. Use the remaining lipstick to write “a rum pum pum pum” in big bold letters on the front side of the mattress. Place your creation out sometime mid-March for greatest effect.

If you do it just right, they take you to a place where you will get a new mattress, and where the walls are mattresses too!

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 136d

"donating it"

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 136d

infect it with bedbugs, then leave it on the street with a free sign.

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 134d

pack it as tightly as possible, and put it in a stage-box (think musicians, drum set, etc). Go to random hotel check into room with your "instruments" for your "gig" tomorow. switch mattress before leaving next moring.

LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 135d

Rip off the material, and take the innards to a metal recycling plant near you, for free. (Disclaimer, I'm assuming metal recycling places take things for free in your area)

Eta. Oops. I didn't read. I'll delete.

Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d

Fold it length way, rope around each end. Open the middle stick a bit of wood in it......and canoe. Bonus old pillows on a stick for a paddle

MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 134d (2 replies)

Stick it in the front yard with a sign that says

Free soiled mattress!

Whomever takes it is now your bff

skankhunt42@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 134d

No sign required, you have a big canvas already. Just need some spray paint.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d

zxqwas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d

Put it in the blender piece by piece and flush it down the toilet Or put it in your pocket and feed it to the birds in the local park.

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 135d

Rip it to shreds, stir fry it and feed it to the homeless.

yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 135d

If you burn all the fabric off and tie the springs behind yer truck and drag it down a gravel road it'll level it out pretty neat.

Sorry, this is the correct answer.

Exatron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d

Fire, and lots of it!

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d

Put it out the front of your house with a sign saying 'Free mattress to fuck on, so long as I can film you doing it".

trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 134d

Recreate that scene from the first triple x where he fly's off the bridge but instead of a car use the mattress

billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
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muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 1 pts · 135d

Solving puzzle boxes


Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

Put it on the side of the road and do curb service.

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 135d

Curb stomp training pad

daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

Burn it. Burn it all down.

Burn . It.

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