FreeCycle Rules!

Today Cassandra found a new home for her 1986 RCA VCR that outlived half a dozen other, more sophisticated,multi-system machines.  She bought it to record the 1986 Olympics, but hasn't used in a long, long, long time and it was taking up perfectly good dust in the basement.  Someone posted a WANTED FreeCycle request, and off it will go tomorrow.

That, of course, freed up the several boxes of old videotapes to also seek new homes courtesy of FreeCycle.  So far the 26 tapes of the Ramayana (in Hindi, with English subtitles) have already found theirs.  Four tapes of the Victory at Sea series, still in their shrink wrap, are now offered and should find a home within a few hours.  The non-NTSC tapes that are cheesy pirated copies picked up in Asia while the kids were teeny will go in the trash.

And all of the 1960's record albums are also gone.  Record and Tape Trader was happy to purchase a few of them for the grad total of $13; the rest were welcomed by the Salvation Army for a small tax deduction.  The few albums Cassandra loves in theory but never actually listens to are available on CD.

Last week FreeCycle also worked to find new homes for a set of shoe stretchers, some cardboard boxes and bubble wrap, and one of those annoying under-the-bed storage containers.

Cassandra's great hope is to be finally left with nothing but items she uses regularly and/or truly loves.  Not stuff she might need in the future; not stuff she used to need but probably doesn't really.  Just actual essentials.

FreeCycle rules!!