electronics
Cassette goodbye
Monday, August 17, 2009
Gotta love freecycling. This was one of the fastest removals ever. We put this cassette player (a terrific Yamaha deck in its time) out on the lawn with the standard “free” sign and not ten minutes later it was gone. Didn’t see who nabbed it. We still have a stack of Yamaha components, but it’s a shorter stack now. Can’t remember the last time I played a cassette. I still have a blaster somewhere if I really can’t live without hearing Hang Out Your Poetry by Ceremony again. I’ll throw in a random baby today because the cassette player is not very attractive. The little girl is years older now, part of my extended family.
The headsets are multiplying
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Where do they come from? Found another two pairs of headsets that aren’t as good as the ear buds I’m using now. I don’t even want them as backup pairs. I still have a fairly comfortable set in the drawer that I try to remember to take when I travel by plane. That can be my spare pair.
I’m going to add random flower shots to this blog. The garden is starting to enter its most beautiful time of year. The tulips are from my cutting garden. The bulbs were planted last fall, so this is the first spring I get to see what they really look like. They are lasting for days and days as cut flowers.
I’m going to add random flower shots to this blog. The garden is starting to enter its most beautiful time of year. The tulips are from my cutting garden. The bulbs were planted last fall, so this is the first spring I get to see what they really look like. They are lasting for days and days as cut flowers.
Out on its ear, bud
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I wandered around for a long time today looking for something to get rid of. Uh oh. I wonder if I’m stumbling a bit. I picked up and looked at quite a few things, but in the end decided I still had a use, or a potential use, for them. This pair of ear buds is one of a couple of backup pairs. Not nearly as comfortable as the ones I use now, so really, if I need a new backup pair one day, I should go get nice soft ones. These Sony ones might have come with the walkman I got rid of in January.
Timer for a change
Friday, February 20, 2009
I bought this for $2 at a yard sale because I wanted to set up a living room light on a timer for when we were out after dark. Never happened. Still seems like a good idea to me. (Confession: this isn’t the only one I have. I bought two of them at that yard sale. So if I ever do decide to figure it out, I still have the equipment.) (Even the cat is laughing at me for having this for so long.)
Re-cycle?
Monday, February 02, 2009
A bike light. Have moved on to a bigger, better, LED version. I’m conflicted about whether to give old things like this to the Sally Ann — it’s hard on batteries — if I’m no longer willing to use an inefficient object, why would I want to pass the problem on to someone else? What if they don’t use rechargeable batteries? Perhaps it’s better to take this to the depot and let them recycle what they can from it. It will cost me $2 to turn it in.
Rewind and eject
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
This should have been out of here ages ago. At one point I could have used the excuse that I was saving it just in case it was needed as a prop in a play. At least now I can recycle all of the plastic bits, which wouldn’t have been possible if I’d thrown it out a decade ago. I still have some cassettes and a ghetto blaster that can play them, but now I use an ipod for portable music. This Walkman was a gift from my first husband. I remember being pleased and touched to receive it. I walked many a mile listening to Janis Ian sing to me.
Cutting the cordless
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
I hate to discard electronics. But this phone no longer holds a charge for more than 20 minutes away from its base, rendering it pretty much useless as a cordless phone. It’s also 10 years old. New batteries are almost as much as a new phone. I just bought a replacement for under $50 – with answering machine and 2 extra handsets. For a small fee, Pacific Mobile Depots – the BEST recycling service ever – takes old electronics. Thanks to PMD I’ve become even more of a recycling fanatic than ever. They take every kind of plastic that the blue box program doesn’t. They accept milk cartons, juice boxes, soup boxes, styrofoam, cleaning brushes, toothbrushes, flower pots, medical tubing and traffic cones, just to mention a few. Ya know I did have a traffic cone at one point, could be it’s buried at the back of the shed somewhere.
