Accumulated Junk

About $3 for the entire lot.

My wife and I have been watching that "hoarders" show on Netflix recently, we are nothing like those places, BUT nonetheless we have been inspired to get on a cleaning spree, garage sale last weekend, where we only got $40, BUT got rid of a lot of stuff, cherry picking a few surveying magazines, BUT mostly complete sets of ALL of the publications from the early 1980's have met the recycle bin, a bit sad, but I only ever look at the old issues to see how far we have come in the last 30 years with technology. My office is cleaner than it has been in a couple of years, yep this is the year to clean out, organize and get rid of the "stuff" I might need tomorrow if I throw it out today, LOL.

SHG

What's wrong with the HP's? They may be worth rescuing -- depending on what's wrong with them. I have that same Casio. lol!

I am guessing the lowest stratum of that collection represents the last time you had this much free time on your hands (read this much work available)?

Just donate the entire stack to your next professional organization fund raising event! Maybe as a "Mystery Box" or a "Box of Fun"!?

Going through some of that, myself. If they are still functional but you just don't have any use, try donating. Failing that, try recycling, so at least it doesn't end up in the landfill. I'm finding that some places will take in that stuff to recycle - Best Buy will take wires, old remotes and controllers, they will also take old computers, VCRs, monitors and so on, though for some of those bigger things they want to charge $10 (though they give a $10 credit in return), which is at least better than the electronics recycling places that want you to pay a nominal fee with nothing in return.

If you'd like to get rid of those 48's, let me know...

Give it all to TDD. He'll build a supercomputer that is capable of proving that the true value of pi is actually 22/7ths instead of some stupid nonending number.

TDD doesn't need a supercomputer...he still has his brain.

Seriously, if those hp48's are working, they can bring money on ebay.

Is that blue thing in the lower right corner an external 100MB zip disk drive? I remember those things, with 70X the storage of the floppy ... who could ever ask for more???

I saw one listed on Ebay as non-working for parts!

"Hoarders" That's the name for it right there. I called it living in a giant junk drawer.

Yeah, and now I have a little "geek stick" sitting here with about 4 times that capacity.
I miss my old teletype beast. I gave $50 for it back around 80 or so. I had the original manuals which could be worth an easy 50 now. That thing would shake the house when I fired it up.
The old 300 baud Racal-Vadic acoustic modem was kept around as a novelty. I remember getting upgraded to 1200 baud and thought I was in hog heaven. Shortly after we got a direct connect leased line and I really was in hog heaven. I think it cost about $2k a month + equipment.

Ever since I moved in to my new house/office, I have had many boxes of stuff piled up. It was hard, but I finally convinced myself to throw away the 1000's of magazines I had accumalated over the years. Not just surveying, but aviation and other hobbies. Also National Geographic. All to the local paper recycle bin. Still lots of stuff to throw away, I am going to attack it little by little. I still can't bring myself to throw away books (I have at least a thousand) except if it is obsolete computer stuff.

I realized where I am headed when we decided to take my mother out of her house and put her in an assisted living facility nearer to us. There was an unbelievable amount of stuff there. I took a number of pieces of furniture, and some books. Then we had an estate sale. They said they had never seen so much stuff. The auction netted $15K. That was after I took a bunch of good stuff out. Now I know why it is difficult for me to throw things out-hereditary.

> I finally convinced myself to throw away the 1000's of magazines I had accumalated over the years. Not just surveying, but aviation and other hobbies. Also National Geographic. All to the local paper recycle bin. Still lots of stuff to throw away, I am going to attack it little by little. I still can't bring myself to throw away books (I have at least a thousand) except if it is obsolete computer stuff.

In my experience, Half-Price Books will give you cash for practically anything book or magazine related as well as records, CDs, software, jigsaw puzzles, etc. Not much cash, mind you, but cash nonetheless.

I suppose it depends on how far you live from a store. I'm only about 5 minutes away. I usually visit a couple of times a month to check the clearance items and I always have a handful of something to take along to sell. Just last week, I sold a year's worth (2007) of GPS World magazines for $1.00. As a co-worker used to say, "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."

> As a co-worker used to say, "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."

That's what my dad used to say!

Thanks for the link, there's one in Tacoma, I just might go check them out.

Dugger

Mr. Chain,

thanks for the mention of Best Buy. i have all kinds of wore out and broke electronics to get rid of but didn't know where to take them.

i just called Best Buy and it's just like you said.

thanks again,

Frank

I have a junk laptop, two desktops and a monitor sitting in the chariot to drop off at Best Buy as we speak.

Having had a sharp stick in the eye...I can confirm that almost anything beats that!