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Junque... My wife and I are considering downsizing to move into a rented apartment close to my job and rent out my house to offset the expenses. the problem is, I have too many unused 'things'. You know... things that women call JUNK. Office equipment, tools, old computer parts, software, gadgets, etc. Technology changes and some of these things are obsolete. Actually, some aren't and that's the problem. Obsolescence is often a marketing tool or a state of mind. Many people have simple needs and don't require the very latest technology to run a business or make their lifestyle complete. That's like the decision of buying a $2,000 quad-core computer simply because you need it for e-mail. If the salesman at the computer store told you it was necessary, he should be executed by a firing squad in the morning. Years ago, I bought an all-in-one laser fax that scans legal paper. Right after the warranty period, the paper feed broke and it's $200 to repair. I no longer need the scanner or the fax (as I have replaced them with other equipment) but I wouldn't mind having the laser printer working. Checking for online deals, I can buy factory refurbished laser printers for $50. That's about the same price as the toner cartridge. Basically, they are giving away the laser printers. Do I absolutely need this? No, but I often print documents 10-15 pages on an inkjet that seems like an eternity. So a $50 laser printer isn't a far-fetched idea. Consider this: Trashing the bulky (unused) laser fax for a compact laser printer removes a box 2' x 2' x 2' from my storage shed. Good, more room for some other junque! When you run a business, you have to keep records. This I have. OK, so maybe I don't need 20 years of records sitting in my storage shed in my back yard, but I don't want to spend a day sorting through boxes of old things deciding what to throw out. I do have years and years of my old hand drawings for furniture... some of my life is on those drawings and I would like to select the nicest drawings and scan them for my portfolio. I've been looking for 2 other things somewhere in storage that I did while in High-School. One got me an award when submitted to the county art show for all the schools in the area. It was a pencil sketch of Eric Clapton, guitarist of the Cream. The other was an ink & watercolor psychedelic rendering of a man with a big puffy (Afro) hairstyle... something you would find on logo for the Broadway show HAIR. I was proud of some of my art work, these were my favorites. I know they are somewhere in a box of junque waiting for me to reclaim them. Sometimes friends offer to help me eliminate some of my junque, however, they don't know the difference between junk and junque. So I cannot trust them for they might mistakenly slip some junque in a garbage bag with junk and I'll never see it again. Labor day weekend weekend will be coming next month and maybe I'll move (in an attempt to throw out) some junque... Somewhere in the back of the shed (inaccessible) is a box with an 18" high-wattage bass guitar subwoofer speaker I've been planning to build a cabinet for. That project has to wait as I don't have the time to space for it. . . |
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I'm still trying to unload some junque...
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