How to reuse or recycle this...  

Do the beaters not attach to the new mixer? It sounds like you had a kitchen aid. I'm not sure if they will fit in any other blender or not, but I would still keep them for mixing cake batter or something like that. The thing about scrapped stuff is you never know when it comes convenient!

Maybe it would be good just to keep them as one day you might come across someone that has a good mixer but the beaters are no good, that sort of thing has happened to me in the past after I have gotten rid of the parts they could have used of course...or maybe put them aside with other stuff you don't need and take them to an op shop or something, someone might find use for them...

Go to Freecycle.org, find a Freecycle group near you, and post your beaters on the site. If you can't think of something to use them for, you never know what someone else might like them for. I can't exactly think of anything, but whenever I have something half way decent that I don't want anymore, even if it's broken I offer it up, because you never know.

Do you have a freecycle or a craigslist in your area? Maybe someone has a mixer like your old one that works but no beaters.

Sometimes you can find someone who has beaters just like yours and they could use them.

The round egg part could be cut off from the extra metal shaft and you could decorate or hide the metal parts with yarn, glue (that sticks to metal) and glitter, something and put a bird or something in it and it looks like a bird in a cage. Since it's like a bird in a cage, you could probably just leave the metal the way it is for that matter. The metal shaft that's extra cold probably be cut into small metal pieces and then not sure if the could be bored out to create metal beads or what. Maybe blue the metal onto the wood of something and put a small replica of a bird or something. It could look like a bird perching on something in water if you put blue paper at the bottom and pieces of broken glass on top of the paper.

Maybe the entire thing could be turned into a bell. Cut the wires near the end and bend them back, then weave some silver material in and out all around and the shaft could be left on this time for a handle for the bell, but inside the bell, maybe cut a little shorter and a clapper put in.

Not sure how or if any of this would work. I'm just using my imagination. Some things I imagine can't be done. Sometimes they can. But your husband probably could tell you which ones could be used and which can not.

Ask around to see if there is an appliance recycler or a metal recycler in your area. We have one of each and call them to see what they can do for you.

Take care and I hope you find something reall cool to do with them and tell us what you do with them.

I'm glad that you got a new mixer but the frugal gene in me would probably rear its head so if the old mixer was working then I would keep it. But I am not imaginative to think of anything that you could do with the beaters. So just bin it! Blessings

Put them into an electric drill and use them as a mixer,

paint, or anything really, do the potatoes with them if you wanted to.)
mix the dog food, chicken mix.

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I am so happy that you got a new mixer...Much needed as it seems!

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i say .. donate them to a second hand store. if someone can use them, they will find them there. If you keep them they will just be one more thing to take up space and you will never get rid of them lol. If things dont have a use i toss them. saves on clutter. mostly!

I would save the beaters. You could use them to stir up eggs for scrambled eggs or for mixing other things also that does not require the mixer.