Moving, Recycling, etc.

It is official, I’m moving. The house is sold in all ways but the papers signed. Now the task of getting my stuff out of the house. Also, need to get everyone Else's stuff out too. The garage is a particularly big task, luckily it is almost finished. Nearly eight years of ”Where should I put this, oh lets put it in the garage.” has made the garage our storage area for everything. Especially my cache of obsolete computer parts.

I’ve found that Best Buy does have a use, they recycle monitors. Which I have too many old broken CRTs that I never knew what to do with. They charge $10.00 an item but then they give you a $10.00 gift card. Ironically, if you give them say 2 items, they give you 2 $10.00 cards as opposed to single $20.00 card. So, for recycling they give you 2 pieces of plastic as opposed to one.

I’ve also been recycling old computer cases, or trying to. Most of the plastic is a 6, which no one in this town accepts for recycling. The front of a case comes off quite easily once you don’t care how many pieces it comes off in. Also a good hit with a hammer will permanently keep the side of a case on without screws.

So at the dump I’m trying to toss a 6U server case made thick enough to hold the 30” case up while being held into place by only the two ears on the front when the guy tells me just to throw it with the trash, they don’t want those in the recycling with the washers and the lawn mowers. So, I do what he says. Feeling like I wasted my time pulling the plastic off, except it was a great stress reliever. Guess I should just recycle the whole computer at Best Buy next time.

Oh well, back to packing.