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True Tales of Tech Hoarding
Recently some member of my household forced me to watch several episodes of A&E's Hoarders. This led to several *ahem* discussions about hoarding tendencies and the closet of cables, wires, boxes and parts in my basement. But I'm not doing bad compared to some of these tech hoarders. My favorite is the guy using a stack of 9 VA rack machines as an end table.
You think that's bad, you should check out some of the collections at AtariAge. People who have a dozen spare 800XLs "just in case". I've got to say this shit is impressive. This too.
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You can take your old computers to Best Buy and they will recycle them for you. No need to put them in a landfill. That is where I take all my old tech.
Here are some links:
news article
recycle information
Also note that if it has a screen they will charge you $10 to recycle it; however they give you a $10 gift card to use in the store as well - so it is a wash.
and the conversation will magically change direction, though you'll be even deeper in the doghouse
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No it's not valid because they forget the greater majority of time that the stuff is in the way and of no use. Saving a large pile of junk just to hope to have a use for it isn't very useful. That's how these hoarders get started. As the piles grow, they can't find anything so they get new stuff, even if it's the same. I helped a friend try to end hoarding. In the end we found they owned several of the same thing just because the others were at the bottom of a pile.
be sure to salvage the strong magnets out of there as well. they're very useful. i took the two magnets from an old harddrive and used them to make a super strong money clip. it can securely hold 25 bills folded in half (50 layers!)
http://www.accountkiller.com/removal-requested
That's Tolkien Ring.
Redundancy is good And also good.