08-16-2013, 03:40 PM
Thanks folks! Always a variety of perceptions and responses here. I have occasionally posted free stuff but it's been rare. Either the weather further "ruins it" or the HOA gives a little stink-eye if it becomes a habit.
For the last several years we've been shuffling unwanted stuff from room to room, garage to basement to back porch to front porch. With two new garage doors coming and a long-standing desire to store cars in the garage again, I just wanted to purge.
All of it has some minor value but the effort to get that value is often more than it's worth. I can take a whole van-load of scrap stuff or even trash to a county transfer station and for $7 they'll do the recycling for me. And it's out of my life hassle-free and quickly.
For metal, I go to a nearby scrap dealer. Getting a check for $16 for a busted garage door opener and a few other things, or $19 for a box of SCSI cables and old shock struts I'll never use is a bargain I'll take.
Not buying so much in the first place would be the best bargain of all.
For the last several years we've been shuffling unwanted stuff from room to room, garage to basement to back porch to front porch. With two new garage doors coming and a long-standing desire to store cars in the garage again, I just wanted to purge.
All of it has some minor value but the effort to get that value is often more than it's worth. I can take a whole van-load of scrap stuff or even trash to a county transfer station and for $7 they'll do the recycling for me. And it's out of my life hassle-free and quickly.
For metal, I go to a nearby scrap dealer. Getting a check for $16 for a busted garage door opener and a few other things, or $19 for a box of SCSI cables and old shock struts I'll never use is a bargain I'll take.
Not buying so much in the first place would be the best bargain of all.