ebay, there might be someone out there with the tv, but no remote!

give it to the kids to play with. i have a friend with a toddler who loves cell phones and remotes, so she gets all the old ones.

universal remotes can be used somewhere else. if you’ve lost the “key page” just google the name of the remote.

my cats love licking remotes… we don’t know why. give a cat an old remote.

take the batteries out, and use the compartment to store money etc in.

paint them in pretty colors and use for a paperweight if you’re a tv junkie

Excellent ideas there ^^^^^

Other ideas….stick it in your purse…go to a party and drop it on the coffee table…great gag gift!

PS…cats like the salt that gets on remotes from our hands…but the plastic isn’t good for them.

If you have a bunch of old remotes attach them to strings and turn them into a wind chime. Or, if you have a TV room, glue a bunch of remotes to an old picture frame (otherwise known as pop art).

If you are a tech junkie like my self, I use old remotes for the infra red LED to make homemade night vision goggles and various other cool little gadgets.

Hi, jimmysmits. I have a box full of old remotes, some now obsolete and would love to know haw to recycle them ‘electrinically’. Could you tell us?

I will pay cash for new or used original (not universal) remotes. I prefer to buy several at a time. I am a supporter of recycling!
swetenman@cox.net

Hi Corey, I am responding to your blurb about buying remote controls. I have a Philips Magnavox N0246UD, a TRUTECH DVD player remote and a Fisher RVR-4911 that does say Universal Remote on it so that one may not be what your looking for. Anyway, if you are still collecting them, I have them.

I pay top dollar for new or used original remote controls. (excluding universal remotes!) I can buy from a few to hundreds at a time.
dlm3089@yahoo.com

as a fixer of dumped old electronics
why not offer the faulty item with the remote on you local freecycle group
that how i get some of mine
nothing worse than finding a tv dumped
with no remote !! or worse still droped and case damaged beyond repair
better these days to recycle
i fix about 30 tv’s a year plus lot of other bit i am sure there are others local to you
thanks
vince