"Cyli" wrote


Why are you throwing it away? Doesn't anyone else want it? You don't
have to eBay it, but a garage sale would be good. Or finding a local
teacher with students who could use it. My local Goodwill has very
little sports equipment. Your local charity store might want some.


"throw away" was my way of lumping a wide variety of actions into one
heading

We've had several garage sales, I've given many boxes of stuff to several
different charities.

Actually MY stuff is only a drop in the bucket, I am
one of the people that got stuck with a full house and full barn full of
other people's things and most of what I've been getting rid of is from
that, not really my fishing stuff, I just mentioned it to try and stay 'on
topic'. I took a full kitchen worth of dishes, pots, pans, etc. to a
retired folks home for THEIR garage sale ( they asked for donations in the
local paper ) and before I got it unloaded they were complaining I had
brought too much g .... it was all quality items AFTER my wife and
sister-in-law threw out anything damaged or whatever, quality brands from a
upper class kitchen.

I have a trailer full of sports stuff ranging from cross country skis to
glass fly rods that I will try to give away, maybe E-Bay .... most of the
sporting goods 'throw away' so far is really putting it into that trailer
more than a garbage can. In all cases I've asked someone if they wanted it
before putting it in the trailer.

I think that sporting goods is
actually one of the harder things to recycle .. Why? Because buying neat new
**** is a big part of the sport's fun..right? Think back on all the "gotta
a new
Model Perfect Self Casting Super Rod and I'm now an emotionally balanced
guy, ah, ... the joy of purchase ! " posts around here g

I appreciate and share your position. But I will admit to some laziness,
too. I had two complete computers of fairly high specs ... only the
harddrives had been removed .... I had to make a couple dozen phone calls
and then drive 80 miles to GIVE them away .... I started trying to give
them to schools, then to kids ( the kid, not the class ) in computer science
class, then .... ah, you get the idea. Such things get old and the garbage
can starts to look good.

MY point is not self defence, it is that it is harder to get rid of 'stuff'
than most people realize. Harder than I would have ever thought, at least.