kiz
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Post by kiz on Jul 1, 2009 22:56:44 GMT -5
Hi,
In my mega pre-move clean out, I have tossed, over 2 days, 13 or so small bags of garbage, an old wicker hamper, donated 3 or 4 large shopping bags of books and a couple of clothes. So I'm not doing too bad. I think I have packed a whole lot of crap and will have to do a serious (not surface as I am now) sort/toss/repair/clean of everything again.
Ok... question... I managed to cull enough videos to fill one of those large, striped garmet/travellers bags. That's 100s of videos, I'm sure! I doubt I will watch them again. Most of them are "taped off TV" a friend gave me but there are some store-bought ones in there.
I could go through them all and sort them and take the good ones to charity... I don't have time now, and I don't have a car, lugging them with me on the house move just in case I get around to going through them is a very bad idea, isn't it? I kind of feel guilty having tossed them (garbage collection hasn't got them yet, though), I mean, someone might want them, right? Right?
That's not too much stuff to do the amensty thing on, is it? I am struggling just to move house right now, let alone go through stuff like that to sort the chaff from the fodder. I felt so proud to chuck it - suddenly, that's turned to feeling guilty for the waste.
There's some good videos in there, after all!
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Blackswan
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Post by Blackswan on Jul 1, 2009 23:17:33 GMT -5
Toss em! Goodwill and Salvation Army, etc. have so many darn videos on their shelves, and nobody is ever going to buy any of them. Amnesty, amnesty, amnesty! Videotapes have gone the way of 8-track (is that even how you write it?  , I was born in the era of cassette tapes) I just got rid of some of my own very, very special videotapes. I knew I was never going to watch them, and they would just sit around for ever. They were one of a kind collections of music videos taped off of Mtv, when they still played music, and I had them all catalogued and everything. Now, that seems pretty silly to have been holding on to them, huh? So, toss, toss, toss! |
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Post by Meme on Jul 2, 2009 0:48:09 GMT -5
I would toss them too as they are just not good selling items anymore due to all the CDs. it is ok- I too tossed some and need to toss more- and we will not tell .............................. |
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Post by paperpiler on Jul 2, 2009 5:17:03 GMT -5
Freecycle is your friend. :-) If you truly want them to go to someone, and don't want to deal with taking them somewhere, put them on freecycle (MUST TAKE ALL AND FREECYCLE THE REST...not one or two that they sort through). You don't even have to let them in your home. Meet them at the door. "Here ya go...thanks for taking them." Place the ad on Freecycle, set the other guidelines (must pick up by end of tomorrow, etc.) They go to someone who truly wants them. |
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kiz
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Post by kiz on Jul 2, 2009 5:38:54 GMT -5
Unfortunately I only have a couple more days before I move. We don't have Freecycle as such - I'm sure there would be a similar service though.
But thank you for everyone's help.
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Post by slothzilla on Jul 2, 2009 9:54:32 GMT -5
Ask yourself "am I really going to miss this? " Chances are you won't.
And don't feel bad about about not donating them to charity...Blackswan's right, most thrift stores have way too many vhs tapes already, and almost no one buys the home-recorded ones anyway.
I have way too many vhs tapes...I recently got rid of the ones which I've also got on dvd. I'm planning on moving all my remaining vhs tapes to my upstairs hallway shelves soon, to get them more out of the way.
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Blackswan
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Post by Blackswan on Jul 2, 2009 11:05:28 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and if there are any special videos that you want to keep, they have services that convert vhs to dvd for a fee. You can google it, if interested.
But other than maybe doing that with a few special ones, you have completely amnesty to throw them away.
Do it now, I dare you! Then come back and post about how good it felt.
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Post by puppybox on Jul 2, 2009 14:49:17 GMT -5
wow this is good timeing. On montreal, 60% of everyone moves on the same day, july 1. so july 2 is a good day to find stuff onthe curb for free! as i was leaveing for work today , I found about 200 or more videos in open boxes in someone's trash pile, I took about 50 home. I will watch them and put themback out marked "free". they will dissappear in 24hrs, I have done it before.
leave them visible to the street,and if you like post a curb alrt on craigstlist in the "free stuff" section. Or not. I dont' bother.
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kiz
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Post by kiz on Jul 2, 2009 15:25:19 GMT -5
I will do that, puppybox, thanks.
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Post by kiz on Jul 3, 2009 23:37:06 GMT -5
Happy ending.  Someone asked how the move went... I said good, chucked a lot of junk out, though. They asked..... "chucking out any videos?"  They've gone to a Housing Commission community entertainment hut, that has a TV, a video but no video library! So happiness all round. |
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Jul 4, 2009 0:21:12 GMT -5
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Post by limegreen on Jul 4, 2009 19:46:31 GMT -5
I'm thinking I should donate/freecycle the videos I have. After all, the VCR remote fell down the couch years ago and neither of us has bothered to fish it out of the dark recesses.
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Post by flower on Jul 6, 2009 0:37:07 GMT -5
! I took a huge bag of videos to Goodwill a couple of days ago. I hate to admit that I also *bought* most of them at Goodwill sometime in the last year or so and never even watched them..... embarrassing!! |
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