My sister told me about this amazing site
http://www.freecycle.org/
its were people in the city give I mean GIVE no money exchange stuff they don't need anymore except the fact that you have to pick it up, but whatever! lol, when I looked on there there's coffee tables lets me more better IKEA! coffee tables and much of everything like books and so on that people think other people can use, just go to the website it tells you more about it. and fine the city your in group! (you need and yahoo account for the group, i have also seen fishtanks that people are giving away or fish)
Matt