As a few years travel by, I tend to collect a lot of old gear and positions that I no longer need. Let it be outdated PC parts, instrument accessories, recording gear, clothing, camera gear and so forth. I usually end up giving it away to friends, family and finally Goodwill for whatever is left.
I decided to tally up everything (Goodwill-wise) so far that I have let go this year to see what my writeoffs look like thus far. I have given away 42 items to goodwill already. I never knew I had so much stuff I didn’t need. Given, I think I have gone though just about everything looking for such items…so I’m pretty much at a dead end now. An old wired phone, a not so old digital 5ghz wired phone set (I don’t have a hard-phone line)….an old digital camera, a printer…some old clothes that were never worn (yatta yatta). It all adds up quickly collecting space.
I handed off a good number of things to friends as well. I just mailed out a small pocket-size digital kodak camera to a friend. I noticed I haven’t used it in over 2 years. It was a nice camera, but my phone takes just as good images (if not better) so why not pass it on to someone who could use it. Two old 21″ TV’s, some Xbox games that I some how acquired but would never play. *poof*….gone. Freed up a lot of space.
Something interesting, I recently acquired a signed original art piece by one of the artists from “Adventure Time” (via a local comic/art convention) for someone. I paid $15 for it, it was very well sketched out and had no idea what I was going to do with it, as sadly I could no longer give it to them. I don’t watch the show myself. I tried giving it away but I didn’t know anyone who followed the show (no one wanted to claim it). I wound up bringing it up to someone who bought it off of me for $50. As to why they wanted it so badly (especially since the signature was personalized), couldn’t say. o_O….I may need to acquire some more of those art pieces the next time I run into that artist. It was an image of the dog from the show, dressed as batman in a nice action scene. Unique….
If everyone took the time to randomly go through one room a day and collect everything that had no need for….old PC gear, tech you haven’t used for years and have no need for now, clothing that no longer fits or never worn…an old bowling bowl……..imagine treasure smorgasbord that would be donated to Goodwill or anyone else who wanted it. Imagine the space you will suddenly find in your homes. Take those old drives you use as doorstops and offer them to friends. You never know…they may need that 80GB hard drive for an odd project. Old cellphones…your neighbor may be looking to give their kid a phone they don’t worry so much about getting trashed.
I have a family member I have been slowly helping out. They are quite the pack rat, so Goodwill has been gaining a lot of weight thanks to them. About 4 car loads so far. I’d say that’s quite the dent in decades of…..pack ratting. They have found areas in their house they forgot were even there.
…..just a random blabber post/point since I had no idea what to write about. I had a review drafted from a few weeks ago about some gaming apparel/stuff but I decided against publishing it. Just didn’t have the energy to finish it. More things to come though…eventually. As soon as I find my muse.
Until then….enjoy picking apart this…horribly….formatted….blog post…….after watching one of Weird Al’s new videos (quite possibly one of his best):
….and….this is where I realize I should have gone to bed as I need to get up in four and a half hours.
When he said the thing about using numbers as letters, I thought of home
stuck….. Anyone else?
#This *so much* #THIS #grammar #punctuation #written #english
#This *so much* #THIS #grammar #punctuation #written #english
Not sure is it Fun, Listening & watching or Grammar. Most probably it
leash.
Join the anti “like” force
We try not to use the word like and correct people when they say it.
Love this video… LOL HUMPDAY!
It’s time for another edition of #webcomicwednesday flood!!!
…but first let’s start today’s shenanigans with with some musical
shenanigans.
Enjoy
Thought you’d enjoy this lyrical content.
#YOU’DBETTERSLOWDOWNANDUSETHERIGHTPRONOUNSHOWTHEWORLDYOURNOCLOWN
I’m sorry but “Every dog has it’s day” IS Correct.
You don’t just change the rules for a contraction, a word that is
essentially slang. “It’s” IS a possessive. “It’s” the contraction, is NOT a
word. Just like “can’t”, “won’t” or “isn’t”. Just because you replace
letters and spaces with a comma to fit peoples’ accents doesn’t make it
correct.
Saying that this new grammer rule exists is as stupid as saying “gay” is
actually now a word meaning “stupid”.
Yayyyy! Weird Al has done it again!
Gooooooooddddddddd MMMMMMooooooooonddayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!
Roleplayers, please listen to this song.
You know what, not just Roleplayers. Anyone on the internet (with English
as a first language), please listen to this song.
I actually learned something from this. I can’t believe I used to watch
Bart Baker’s parodies.
You actually do use apostrophes for possessive words… Right? RIGHT? for
both contractions and possessives
I think +Wallace West would really like this.
So many people claiming to be super OCD perfectionist English speakers, yet
I still haven’t seen a single one of these “grammar nazi” folks correcting
people in day to day real life. Because trying to force perfection on
people is as dickish as forcing religion. For some reason, having a screen
between us apparently makes it okay to be dickish. Am I the only one who
sees that? :/
Running through my head now because of +Justin Mann
dis song iz stoopid i can grammr god all ready
i think i learned more about grammer in this video than i do in school
this song is for the uttp
I like the “fancy” one
lol
Everyone, it’s very funny.
A “Blurred Lines” parody that is so true!
Did the singer say “Never use words as numbers unless you’re 7 or your name
is Prius”?
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes: http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
I learned more in this one video then I did of five years of school.
Because when you’re Prince…
grammar is irrelevant.
Isn’t the “Oxford Comma” necessary? I mean, if you’re listing things and
there’s no comma but you put in “and” you would be listing two things in
one part. For example: “I got shirts with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman,
and Green Lantern on them.” would be four shirts, but if you said “I got
shirts with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern on them.”
would be three shirts with one being both Wonder Woman and Green Lantern on
the same shirt.
I am sending this to everyone who spells like this just to give them a hint
that there dumb asses
That is hilarious. Speaking of that, I have a password that has words
written using numbers. No joke.
ikr, grammer is incorect so oftin in social medea and stuff
Time for a revisit…shut up and listen…”Weird Al” Yankovic – Word
Crimes: http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
I’m so happy I was able to see him live last week, it was one hell of a
show. He changed into a costume almost every song, wore a fat suit for I’m
Fat, drove in on a Segway for White and Nerdy, dressed as a Jedi for Jedi
and Yoda, etc. It was awesome.
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes: https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
September. Laughlin, NV. Who’s going to be there with me? 🙂
+Anlia Bolinger Rogers +Sierra Bolinger +Nathan Rogers +Daniel Rogers +David
Rogers +Hannah Rogers +John Rogers
Funny thing is that most of the people I know that have perfect grammar are
complete morons at everything else.
“Every dog has it’s day” is correct. It is the day belonging to “it” (ie
possessive). Please someone tell me how I am wrong in this.
Grammar: The difference in helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping
your uncle jack off a horse.
Cause you just know some folks out there who just can’t proper English. XD
u rite laeik a spzzzstik
When Weird Al starts to rap, it sounds eerily similar to Eminem.
+Selina Kyle heheehe
I love this.
I have a huge dislike of grammar ppl so I couldn’t really watch the whole
thing.
I love this so much more than Blurred Lines. Weird Al > Robin Thicke
Funny, because “cause” can’t be used as a shortened form of “because”
without an apostrophe.
I found a new theme song for NML-
Because it’s, well, World Emoji Day. 🙂
+Gina Miller Mom this is totally you! xD
+Alize Flowers +Sugar Plum (ESPECIALLY YOU ARABIA!!!)