Hello from IL

Hello all. First off, thank you to all the veteran scrappers who make this forum so valuable. I was always intending to join when I needed to post a question but I've been scrapping for a few months now and every time I have a question it's already been answered. So I finally decided to just join anyways.
I just got out of the Navy a few months ago and I'm in between jobs while my wife and I renovate our new house in northern Illinois. I've been scrapping mostly as a relaxing hobby that pays, hell of a lot better then forking over piles of cash to get frustrated going golfing or something. Mostly TVs, a bunch of scraps from our electrical contractor, some random other stuff and now I've got a dehumidifier that I recently discovered from this forum is going to be sitting in my garage taking up space for God knows how long since I can't handle freon.
Anyways, thanks for all the shared knowledge and experience, happy hunting everyone.

I am new here myself. I hope to find out if there is a way a person can recover the freon in things like your dehumidifier themselves.

Welcome to the forum from south of Chicago.

Call the yards in your area, I know of 1 that takes items containing refrigerant. They use to recover the gas, now they just pallet them up and send them out

Thanks for the tip greytruck, will do.