The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club
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The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club
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#2Finally, a way to get rid of my old, hazardous, household chemicals and get paid at the same time!
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#3Finally, a way to get rid of my old, hazardous, household chemicals and get paid at the same time!
Haha, no one said it would be risk-free :))
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#4I'd do it, not sure how many months I'd be able to do it, as I often get rid of crap regularly.
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#5I do this all the time with Amazon's Trade-In Program. A couple of times a year, I look at my book shelf and video games. If I haven't read/played them within the last 6 months, and have no compelling reason to hold onto them for the foreseeable 6 months, into the box they go.
Amazon then gives me a pre-paid shipping label.
I find the whole process enjoyable. "How much will Amazon give me for this?" is an exciting game. Then things go in the box, and you can visibly see the consumer weight you're lifting off your shoulders. Then you get to see the fruits of your labors with a newly empty bookshelf.
The money they give me for it is only a small part of the benefits I feel from doing it. I try to do the same with Goodwill donations of old clothes, but I have to admit some laziness in actually getting down to the Goodwill (which is essentially zero difference from driving the box to the UPS Store. Procrastination is a weird and wonderful thing.)
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#6I do this all the time with Amazon's Trade-In Program. A couple of times a year, I look at my book shelf and video games. If I haven't read/played them within the last 6 months, and have no compelling reason to hold onto them for the foreseeable 6 months, into the box they go. Amazon then gives me a pre-paid shipping label. I find the whole process enjoyable. "How much will Amazon give me for this?" is an exciting ga…
Well, something good came out of this silly idea: I had no idea Amazon does this!! Thanks!
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#7I use Goodwill for this. I take things there when I don't need them anymore, and I go there looking for things I do need. Sometimes it feels like I'm just renting from them, when I donate something there, buy it later, then donate it again when I no longer need it.
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#8I really like this idea. I agree there's a big activation energy to getting rid of stuff. Often I have things that are for specific tasks or activities, where it wouldn't make sense to donate them to Goodwill. Having something like this would help, because you would know it would get used, but you don't have to figure out where to send it. At the receiving point, you could even coordinate with different charities - like the ones that want eyeglasses or old cell phones. So, some could get sold and some could get donated.
I didn't know about the Amazon trade-in program. That sounds great for books and games.
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#9I think that this is a great idea and it kind of reminds me of http://usesold.com/ with an expanded scope. I'm constantly packing up things into bags for AMVETS, but having a box sent to me that automatically gets picked up would be awesome.
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#10The average value of a box of stuff is below the cost of shipping it somewhere, unfortunately.