We took a feather bed to a dry cleaner. I asked to have the fathers cleaned and put into pillows. I only got two pillows but was told they would be very, very expensive if we bought them.

LOL So true and we are bad :) I'm still laughing out loud ( I'm glad my neighbors can't hear me or they might just call the looney bin on me LOL) Why not make some throw pillows, cat / dog beds ????

take it to Washington d.c. there would be plenty of uses for it there ooooh bad me

If you do not want to deal with it, place it on FREE CYCLE, For sure someone would appreciate :) Sometimes we all get tired of something and just do not want, but there is one to take it just around the corner :)

cushion filling but don't forget to use feather proof ticking , you could also make some surplus pillows, both SO much better than these ghastly man made fillers.

I took apart a down eiderdown and did the above and "hoovered" them out in a "Henry" cylinder which was new.
you may like to wash or stove the feathers first.

Minnesota? Ohhhhhhh, I'm biting my tongue...

how in the heck do you wash feather pillows??? these are the only pillows I use and always wind up either taking them to the cleaners or buying new ones....

Make pillows. thats what I did with mine.