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BladesP9 asks: "I'm in the process of moving. As such, I have stumbled upon no less than five boxes of wires and various parts. Everything from PS2, SCSI, FireWire, USB and God knows what. Having forgotten all about this stuff I know I will never be needing any of this again as long as I live. Not to mention the roughly 100 boxes of 10 pack 5.25 inch floppy discs. I could just throw all this stuff away, but I am feeling somewhat guilty about that. Is there anywhere I should look to donating this stuff? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing 'Goodwill' would really get use of, but I hate to throw away perfectly good hardware and media if someone could make use of it. I'm looking for suggestions. My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump."
A bulk-buy on eBay. Charge shipping + $1.00. Sort by cable type.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump.
While you're at it, why don't you take your testicles, too? You don't seem to be using them. You should be ashamed of yourself for admitting such a thing in public. You don't bring home money? You don't run your own house? I bet she made you give up all your cool rock band tee-shirts after she moved in, too?
What a tool.
eBay isn't sensible for stuff that costs more to ship than it's worth.
Post on Craigslist and get some local geeks to come pick it up.
This may be obvious, but ... eBay?
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Tell them you saw The Virgin Mary or whatever in it and Golden Palace will pay you thousands.
Free Geek has a list of links to organizations, which (like Free Geek itself) promote computer reuse and recycling. The stuff you've got really doesn't belong in a dump, even if it's reached the point of being of no use to anyone.
If you're not near any of the places listed, please consider shipping your stuff to one of them. Most are nonprofits, which means you can compensate for some of your cost with a tax deduction, and you can feel good about knowing that your old crap is either being given to people who wouldn't otherwise have access to it, or is being taken apart and disposed of properly, rather than taking up space in a landfill and potentially leaching nasty chemicals (mmm, heavy metals).
is always a good bet.
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Hide them beneath the floor boards
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
DIY Parts
Craig's List
FreeCycle
eBay
So is donating it to his local linux users group. At one point, I got roughly 100 network cards (mostly 3com isa) in among other things I got in trade.
Only having use for about 10 (older machines +a few spares), I gave the rest to the local LUG. They were greatly appriciated because they had several older machinces still in need of parts.
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Why not weave them into a nice artsy basket. I'm sure your wife would love that. Look here for inspiration.
Not sure about the dump in your locality, but where I live, just before you enter the dump per se, there is a steel building. There you will usually find hundreds of items that people think are too valuable to throw away, but they have no need for... I dropped off a few old computer chasis and an older printer, monitor and some cables one Friday afternoon. Found something else Saturday morning, and by the time I got back there, the stuff I had dropped off Friday was gone to a good home. See if there is something simialr in your area. If not, talk to someone about starting something like it
I reject your reality
Join freecycle and offer to give it away.
Or my other option is to smuggle it into work and put it in / on an empty desk, especially right after someone leaves the company. Problem solved.
Check in local papers (including the cheap traders), and any local usenet ".forsale" groups.
I advertised twice on austin.general with large lots of "junk", and within hours had several people wanting to come haul it off. One guy traded me a SCSI card and some install help for one of the lots, because he wanted to do something for it.
For all of you posting about how he shouldn't take that attitude from his wife...
Consider that maybe, just maybe, she is right.
My wife has been after me for 12 years and three homes to throw out some old boxes of "important stuff." I put my foot down and refused to do it.
12 years later I finally got around to opening those dusty museums of a ME I'd rather forget!
Bell bottoms? Check.
Sleevless velour "muscle shirt", size extra-small? Check.
300+ floppy disks of Apple II games that I swapped for at fairs, but never actually played. Not once. Check.
Mouldy hammock. Check.
100+ pounds of wires, integrated circuits, resistors and capacitors scavenged from an ancient mainframe being throw out by my university that I was sure to use someday for some project. Check.
One precious copy of Playboy with the one and only Nancy Drew, Pamela Sue Martin? Check.
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