Factory reset and a hammer, or just a hammer, usually does the trick. Unless you work for NSA, in which case you know the options.
Electronics recycling are typically looking for the raw metals/materials, so they don’t care.
Rough article in the NYTimes about electronics recycling in SE Asia today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/e-waste-thailand-southeast-asia.html
I really hope whoever gets our donated microwave could use it. It’s in perfectly working order but took up so much space that our kitchen was impaired. I picked up a new tiny one and have the older one in back of my car for Goodwill run in the morning.
Microwave is gone, so is a small tote bag with screwdrivers, a little cooking pot, clip-on shop lamp. Hope it all makes someone happy.
I recently bought a new car and traded in my old car. I wonder if it was just junked or if someone will continue to drive it. It was 20 years old but the engine was fine. The body, not so much. It makes me sad to think it might just have been junked.
Replacements.com isn’t buying the crystal I want to sell. Off to the local consignment shops.
Maybe this should go in the “Say it here” thread, but I am getting annoyed at places that advertise they want “stuff”, but call to confirm first…and then the restrictions on stuff are so tight! Or how about the humane society who always wants sheets and blankets and towels? DS (finally) opened his bins of bedding from his undergraduate days (twin bed now he has a queen). Bedding was put away clean-ish, but was stained beyond what i wanted to salvage. Great to give to pets! Web site says donation hours x to y, but I call to be sure. OH NO, we ONLY accept donations from 2 to 4 on days blah blah blah… (Not the day I planned to go and the hours now put me in rush hour traffic, grr) AND oh, by the way when I got there, they ONLY accept flat sheets, I can haul all the fitted sheets back with me after pulling them out of the sets.
But hey, they are out and done and gone now. And the games which were nearly new (but not new enough for the foster care society) are off to HOPE.
So progress with a side of aggravation I guess I’ll focus on DS’s room clear floor! YAY
@esobay Some of the time restrictions for drop offs may have to do with volunteer availability and logistics, storage issues. Sometimes the drop offs need to be managed , and frankly, some people drop off a bunch of junk they just want to get rid of, and that still needs to be sorted through by the organization, even if some of it is unuseable.
@VeryHappy I think a lot of used cars in your situation go to the auto auctions, probably especially when scrap prices are low.
@sryrstress : So you think it might still be on the road somewhere? Your saying that scrap prices are low suggests it’s worth more as a drivable car than as scrap. That would make me happy.
Donated a floor lamp and two very bulky, seldom used, warm and excellent-condition sleeping bags.
Hauling out a car full of stuff this week. Clothes, linens, and hopefully some excess quilting fabric.
I have a bag of lightbulbs that don’t work anywhere in the house to drop off at Goodwill. Some were “inherited” from a friend who moved out of town, and some were purchased to use in the house we moved out of seven years ago.
This bag is the result of my new resolution of bringing up one useless item from the basement everytime I go down there.
DH and I worked out of a basement office in our house from 1999 until 2008, when we built our addition. It’s kind of like a time capsule - many, many old reference books, vendor manuals, and other crap. Sometimes for various reasons we NEED old books, so it’s been hard to start jettisoning any of them. I’m tired of looking at them when I exercise on the treadmill that’s in that room, so I told DH that every time I go down there, I’m going to grab a couple of books off the shelves and toss them
^^^ Or just bring them up and put them in your new, current office, if they’re still relevant.
^We would if there was enough room! We’re pretty maxed out. It’s not a huge office and the cockatiels take up a lot of room, ha.
I am more or less done with Christmas shopping, and I’m hoping that typing this will encourage me to use the “extra” time to clean some things up. I do have to make my dining room table usable…
Anyone jumping in with new vigor now that the new year is upon us?
We downsized a couple of years ago, and live in less than 1,000 square feet, but it’s amazing to me how “stuff” can still accumulate. I found a 30-day task sheet that is pretty simple and straightforward. Mostly covers clothing, bathrooms, and kitchen with a few other areas of the home (linen closet, books, etc). I’m going to work through that. I found 20 things hanging in my closet yesterday that I could easily part with.
I told my H to watch out this weekend cause I’m in a mood to turn the house upside down…!
Mr. is planning a run to the city dump with stumps that no one seems to want to take for recycling. It is a bummer that the local bark and topsoil yard closes last year. I have quite a few things to add to his load… like the old rug he has stashed in the garage shhh… 