first celaring of an IT "junk room" of a business...

I saw a posting on cl's "free list" about 4:45 PM on Thursday of a business wanting to clean out their IT "junk" room (that's what I called it) that was located in my bedroom town. Looks like it had been posted sometime after 3pm that afternoon. It was one of those "MUST TAKE ALL" things and they had more printers than computers but I decided to call in the morning if the ad was still up.

I called a little after 8 AM and they wanted to know how soon I could be over. I said 15 minutes because I was still planning to be in the office on Friday. What they didn't tell me was that everything would have to go down a flight of stairs and they had a nice but get-in-the-way yellow lab to work around but OK, I was ready to go to work when I got there (I had switched out to the 2nd kid's pickup after he had gone to school). My hand cart wasn't really effective in taking stuff down the stairs without decent straps (a lesson for next time) but at least it helped in moving stuff down the hall to the top of the stairs.

I'm glad they had enough stuff for 2 pick up loads because my middle-aged tubby self was sucking wind a bit after getting the printers down. The second load was easier doing mostly the desk tops. The ram bandits weren't as bad as I tought after tearing through the pcs last night and this morning and printers are stacked and under a tarp in my work area of my side of the garage for slower breakdown over some time. I ended up with about 20 printers of all different sizes, 13 desktops, 4 flat screen monitors, a couple of laptops, and 3-4 boxes of mostly cords and misc. crap. I got a good pyhsical workout without the back barking (legs a little sore this morning), and the sanctification of the "early bird getting the worm" as I heard the gal answer 3-4 calls inquiring about the stuff as I was hauling it out. And I found a section of bedroom town that I had never been to before and the rain mostly held off until I was done. So it goes...

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Nice haul. Be sure and give them your number, that way they don't have to post a CL ad next time.

great pick. printers are a pain but gota take the bad with the good, all with a smile on our faces :) CL adds have been good to me too.

ps. don't be afraid to stack it high and wide. that may have been a single load if stacked just right.

jimicrk- Good advice but the way these guys horded printers, I maybe dead before they need to clear out that room again...

Faceball- Yeah, maybe I could have stacked all the stuff better but I needed the break between the two loads to recharge. Less than 4 miles back to my house, a couple glasses of water, stacked the printers nicely so the wife won't see them for a while, and back to get the desk tops. It worked out fine.

Rog,

I've been taking printers and any unwanted E-scrap to Goodwill. They have a contract with Dell and will take anything except TVs. I think it's a universal undertaking for them.

That's a pretty nice load. I would have to agree though, break or not, possible to be a single load. Time is money. Break down those printers as time comes, get those low and mid grade boards out of them, also, sometimes you come across some memory and a flash card or HD as a bonus. The rest goes to shred, not a free drop-off. Again, time is money.