This paper presents a survey study on the consumption pattern of five main types of electronic home appliances (Color TV, refrigerator, washing machine, air conditioner and personal computer) and the attitudes of householders to obsolete them after utilization in Beijing, the capital of China. There is still space for consumption growth of air conditioner and personal computer while other three kinds have reached saturation. The average life spans of the appliances are found shorter than the anticipated life time. Half of the householders are willing to sell their used appliances to the private collectors due to the convenience and competitive price. Few of them (7%) would like to store the used appliances because of limit living space. 47% of the surveyed people thought the producer should pay for the possible recycling cost. About 85% of them are reluctant to pay more than 50 RMB for per unit of the appliance if required. This study is helpful for the waste electronic appliances generation amount estimation and flow analysis in Beijing and also can be used for the assessment of management frameworks there.