Fly Boxes -- Advice?

"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.

"Larry L" wrote

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.



Oh, and I send a Loomis 3wt rod to a ROFFian I've never met, as a gift ....
he seemed like a 'nice guy' ( haven't seen him here in many moons )

Clearly my desire to limit such gifts to 'good people' limits the number on
ROFF G

"Larry L" wrote

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.


At one point, back in my 'nerd year,' I wrote and tested locally( to my
ability, I'm not too good at nerd ), most of the PHP scripts for a website
I was going to call Free-Bay. It was to be an automated way for people with
stuff to give and people that could use same to get together for the $$$Free
exchange.

At that same time, my 'nerd year,' I had several domains I built and
maintained. Most were dog oriented and allowed large amounts of user input,
one was pretty large and got a lot of visits. But, I soon discovered just
how tacky 'average' Internet users are and spent far too much time removing
garbage from sites I intended to be helpful to families and dog sports
participants. The result of that headache is that ALL those domains went
bye-bye, including the proposed Free-Bay.

I still think the Free-Bay idea was a good one, maybe there is one out
there?

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:38:29 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:


"Larry L" wrote

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.

Okay. I jumped too hard on the 'give away.' Yes, I know. That
beautiful kid bed almost made it to the trash twice while we tried to
find a family for it.

I still think the Free-Bay idea was a good one, maybe there is one out
there?

In MN we have some sort of newsgroup that offers free stuff. I think
it's mostly used by folks in the Twin Cities, Duluth, and Rochester.
If you're not in a big town, you sometimes find that A: people don't
believe it's worth the gas to come and take a look or B: not enough
believe anyone would simply give away stuff to make it worth putting
in the group. If your state has a .general group, you could try
mentioning some of it in there.

And I still have a 1985 truck and would still have a 1987 car, but I
inherited a 1999 car. Old one went to a charity, who were reluctant
to take it until I mentioned the mileage was under 40K. It had been
my mother's and then I used the bus a lot to get to work. The truck
will have to wind up in the junkyard when its time comes. It gets 17
mpg on the highway. Sigh.


Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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"Larry L" wrote


I still think the Free-Bay idea was a good one, maybe there is one out
there?



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"Larry L" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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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.


Indeed! One also discovers that things which cost a great deal of money, or
had other intrinsic or sentimental value, are more or less worthless to
others.

TL
MC