I just gave away a free desk on craigslist!
All you had to do to give a desk away for free is to put it on the curb man. The magical truck comes by and picks that ***up.
Sometimes I don't understand this.. We can put absolutely anything outside on the curb and someone will stop by and pick it up.. Not garbage men or anything, they won't take old furniture and ***, and we have one designated 'heavy trash pick-up day' a year.. Some of the ***I've put out there, I don't see why ANYONE would want it. I get like old ACs or appliances or whatever, because of the metal and there's plenty of people who drive around town and pretty much make their living off looking for scrap metal..
But I can put a box spring that's been completely broken, plus had a particularly bad (small) dog dig holes all through the sides of it, to where it has more holes than fabric covering it.. And someone will still take it!