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2/17 I'm cleaning up my place and I found the following items. I'm wondering
what are some positive things I can do to get rid of these items.
For example, paperweight, ebay, etc. Anything's better than filling
up earth with more landfill:
-expensive $200 mini-Aiwa walkman I bought in 1995. It has a RECORD
feature which is rare with walkman of that time. It's POS now,
I guess, and if I want to record I'd probably buy an iPod with
the attachment or something.
-noisy ATX power supply. Too noisy, don't want it.
-fancy digital answering machine with multi-channel redirect (it says
press X to leave voice mail for X). I don't use it because I mainly
use the cellphone's answering machine.
-CD-ROM. No DVD, no CD-RW. Plain CD-ROM.
-100Mb D-Link 604 router. I use wireless now. This seems to be useless
-2G hard drive from my 386/486 era. Not sure what to do with this.
Landfill?
\_ http://www.accrc.org
-expensive $200 mini-Aiwa walkman I bought in 1995. It has a RECORD
feature which is rare with walkman of that time. It's POS now,
I guess, and if I want to record I'd probably buy an iPod with
the attachment or something.
-noisy ATX power supply. Too noisy, don't want it.
-fancy digital answering machine with multi-channel redirect (it says
press X to leave voice mail for X). I don't use it because I mainly
use the cellphone's answering machine.
-CD-ROM. No DVD, no CD-RW. Plain CD-ROM.
-100Mb D-Link 604 router. I use wireless now. This seems to be useless
-2G hard drive from my 386/486 era. Not sure what to do with this.
Landfill?
\_ If you live in the SF/BA, then maybe try
http://greencitizen.com -mice
\_ If it's really about to go to landfill, take it apart and salvage
the magnets. They're fun to play with.
\_ I can use nearly all of those items! But freecycle and craigslist
are good, too, if you want to give them away piecemeal.
\_ You almost have enough stuff to build a firewall/router you could
toss in the closet. |
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