Selling/donating Cribs

you might check with a good handy man, and maybe they could attach your headboard/footboard to a generic bed frame. should only take a drill and a few screws. you could use a bed skirt to cover where the rails would be. My Dad made my convertible crib, and for the most part the conversion is pretty simple, any handy man should be able to help you make them into a full size bed. personally I prefer not to have a foot board so attaching a standard bed frame to the headboard would be very simple. feel free to PM me if you have any questions, I hate to see good furniture go to waist

I found this online.

New crib safety regulations

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the government agency charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death related to specific products, has adopted new federal regulations for crib safety that apply to both center-based and home-based child care programs. Review the new regulations so that you have time to replace out-of-compliance cribs.

Here are the most important things you need to know:
bullet All cribs must meet these new safety requirements, which include a ban on drop-side cribs.
bullet No cribs made before July 2010 will meet the new safety standards, so they must be replaced. If you bought a crib after July 2010, check to make sure that it complies with the new safety requirements by reviewing the certificate of compliance. The certificate must indicate that it complies with 16 CFR 1219 (the new standard for full-size cribs) or 16 CFR 1220 (the new standard for non-full-size cribs).
bullet Beginning Dec. 28, 2012, the federal law requires that your program must have only cribs that meet the new safety standards. When you buy new cribs, make sure the paperwork states that the crib complies with 16 CFR 1219 or 16 CFR 1220.
bullet No one may sell or give away an old crib that does not meet the new safety requirements after June 28, 2011. When you get rid of cribs that do not meet the new requirements, you may not sell them or give them away. They must be destroyed or thrown away.

If the cribs do not meet the specifications then it is illegal to sell them and most places that take donations like that won't even touch them.

Sorry

@AriaMom- Thank you for posting the regs. I wonder if those rules are being enforced, because when I searched cribs on CL, there were 100s of listings came up.

I wonder if you could sell them on craigslist for arts/crafts stuff. Maybe only sell pieces to a person, and not the whole crib?

Check pinterest, or there's a ton of ideas here -
http://consignmentmommies.com/_blog/Consignment_Sale_Advi...