Anthony J. Gundrum wrote: > Ed, > > I just discovered FreeCycle a few weeks ago. It's a pretty good place to > find and give stuff away that is no longer needed. Highly recommended.
Hi Anthony, I find it like day trading. You have to have a really fast connection and be paying attention all the time to score anything good. Giving away stuff is iffy for another reason. People will say they are going to take something and then not show up to get it. > http://twitpic.com/52b2dd > > I just parted with a big chunk of my past: books that I haven't > needed for several years now. Of course, the majority were Fox books, and it > was tough to let them go (especially my copy of Hackers 3). > > I had offered the books here several times, and only got one taker > for one book. I was faced with tossing them in the recycling bin as my only > option, but remembered an alternative: freecycling > (http://www.freecycle.org/). > > If you have stuff that you no longer want/need, but which someone > else might want, you can post it to freecycle. I've done this also with old > computer hardware (am I really going to use that DAT drive from 1994?), and > now with these books. You should check out their site to see if there is a > freecycle group in your area. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
