Throwing away stuff

[Bryan]

People who live in cities are so funny.  Imagine a 900 square foot house!  It's a fairy tale cottage.



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My house in small-town Ontario is about 900 sq. ft. I'm always astounded when I read in newspapers and magazines about smaller houses - and when I read on I see that they're talking about 3000 sq. ft. homes!

Man, the junk I'd have if I lived in a house that big!

Also: what's wrong with Goodwill?

[dave from knoxville]

I love to do this in the spring and summer (maybe it's a no-longer-freezer thing in New York).

If anyone lives in the city, I'd suggest trying to give to Housing Works or a similar less-totally tubular institution than Goodwill.

Has anyone figured out what the heck to do with CDs? I've got a TON and need to get rid of these. Any of those scam "send us your CDs and we'll send you an iPod with your music" things work? I'm lazy.

Anytime you need to get rid of CDs, I have an address for you. The first line is "dave from knoxville".

[Emerson]

I used to work for a guy who ran a side-business on eBay selling "lots" of about 300 used CDs per box. I'm not sure how badly music retail has dried up since then, but if you can make any money getting rid of them, I'd go ahead and jump on it.

I love to do this in the spring and summer (maybe it's a no-longer-freezer thing in New York).

If anyone lives in the city, I'd suggest trying to give to Housing Works or a similar less-totally tubular institution than Goodwill.

Has anyone figured out what the heck to do with CDs? I've got a TON and need to get rid of these. Any of those scam "send us your CDs and we'll send you an iPod with your music" things work? I'm lazy.

[yesno]

I ripped and sold several thousand CDs years ago to the local shop. Probably the illegal-est thing i've ever done, but i was moving and needed space and cash. I wish I ripped them at a higher bitrate.

[Martin]

Has anyone figured out what the heck to do with CDs? I've got a TON and need to get rid of these.

Yeah, that's an increasing concern for me aswell. I suppose I could always stow them in the attic, but meh. Once I've made mp3s of them (at least the ones I want to keep listening to) I have no use for them at all. Although a part of me wants to hold on to them for sentimental reasons...

Living area: my apartment is roughly 650 square feet.

[erika]

I think Goodwill is ok. I worked with them for a while. Salvation Army too... Has anyone heard anything to the contrary?

If you're willing to pay domestic shipping rates (which really aren't that much money in the whole scheme of things) you can donate used CDs to the troops:

http://soldiersangels.org

[dave from knoxville]

Did I mention that I could take them?

[joanna]

i'd love to sell my cds except that we don't have the jewel cases because they've been in books for years. can you sell just the cd itself? i mean, even if we only got $.50-.75 for each one, that would be a LOT of money.

and dave, if we end up deciding to do this, i'm happy to send you the burnt ones, if you're interested.

[yesno]

I sold a bunch of classical CDs on ebay, as a lot, that had no jewel cases.  Not a lot of money, but it feels better than not selling them.

[Gilly]

Keep on selling your cds and records guys! My collection gets bigger on the cheap!

[AllisonLeGnome]

I'm leaving for college soon, and I'm NOT looking forward to going through all my stuff. So far I've started by deleting my old Firefox bookmarks. Hey, it's a first step.

[Fido]

People who live in cities are so funny.  Imagine a 900 square foot house!  It's a fairy tale cottage.



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Haha.  I almost choked when I saw the square footage on that house -- almost 8,500!  To me, that sounds gigantic, and yet it's quite common.

I actually grew up in a house that was about 1,060 square feet, and while I knew that it was on the small side, it had a full basement which was not counted in the square footage but was partly finished and habitable.  It never seemed like we had too much stuff for the space we had.  My parents still live in it, but built an addition that made it about 50% larger than the original house.  Now, it dwarfs the size of the apartment that I live in.  In fact, I almost blew a gasket today looking for a place to put a bunch of books that I'd like to keep but for which I don't seem to have the storage space. I think it's a classic case of the stuff you own owning you, but I still dream of having a larger home where I don't feel so cramped all the time. 

[Andy]

yyou should randomly put shit you don't want in boxes and then let us pay shiping and send the stuff to FOT that want a woot style box o crap.

[Fido]

I would use orange crates.

[Jason]

Somebody start a swap-meet thread.