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 Let it be outdated PC parts, instrument accessories, recording gear, clothing, camera gear and so forth.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.
Dis was literally da be5t s0ng I ever herd
Lol. #cunninglinguist #thingsthatsoundalike
Oh my gosh.
This is brilliant.
This perfectly describes me..
Oh my gosh.
Weird Al most certainly still “has it.” 🙂
happy Monday folks, here’s another one, again,you know who you are,
EdUcAtIoN!!
[[ Every single person in my circles needs to hear this, save for a few
exceptions. Hail Weird Al. ]]
To all the roleplayers here committing word crimes.
Not giving anyone hate. Just poking fun.
to all the people who can’t spell
Theme Song for this Community:
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes
Several of my friends need to see this.
+Avi Rehill sorry man but you need to see this
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes – http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
evo lekcija na engleskoj…
Oh my god, this song is awesome. I HATE when people have bad grammar!
Seriously! Thank you.
It’s the US I don’t think anyone is going to learn proper grammar
educational
Hey! I got A song about me!
[[ If you want to RP with me on my posts, please watch this first. ]]
+M17UN4 C4P7OR/ Cronus Ampora +Roxy Lalonde +Chovey Fleetwood
I find the word spastic hilarious. I laugh every time I hear it.
#utbildning
Easter egg: if you pause just after 0:04, under the definition for
“accordion,” the picture that goes with it is Weird Al playing an
accordian.
The one that always makes me cringe is when my American friend says
“supposably.”
I don’t know how to spell that because it isn’t a word lol
I really love this, because, being French, my English is really school-like
(although I might still typo and occasionally make some conjugation
errors…), but when I read comments on the internet, I somewhat feel like
my English is way better that some’s. It’s almost scary to see people
confounding words that have totally different meanings, if not different
functions !
But well, it’s a plague that touches every languages I guess…
“If you’re doing good OR DOING WELL!!” You can tell who actually is
educated by when they reply “I’m well.” Listen to it in retail places. One
of those workers will say it, you’ll know they have been taught well.
And if that offends you, then you’re most likely an uneducated slimeball
raised in a shithole fucking trailer park, or close to it, with disgusting,
fat, unhealthy and abusive parents that have done meth with you once or
twice, live in a small city like Muscatine, Iowa, and assume after you turn
18 they don’t have to do a damn thing for you.
Seriously though, Muscatine, Iowa is full of wannabe white gangbangers that
have “Gangs” that are full of white trash poor fucking faggot ass
motherfuckers, yet they’ll still try to shoot you. Shitty. Fuck Muscatine,
fuck it up its stupid fucking ass, and all of the redneck faggot “gang”
douches jump off the bridge or walk into a fucking knife. Muscatine is a
faggot town full of trash. It needs to be dehumanized from all of the scum
walking around there.
go back to preschool
you guys need to watch this #wordcrimes
I have never said “whom” in my life
I used to confuse between desert and dessert when I was younger.
I just noticed that you used the word cause in place of the word because
which is grammatically incorrect.
Im to scared to comment because I always think someone is going to correct
me on what I did wrong.
This is important.
Hey weird al I have an idea for a good cover for you , take jayz and
Beyonce’s drunk in love , call it drunks in love , about being too drunk to
get a boner or something , pisses woman off , get in argument , she ends up
calling cops , instead of waking up in the kitchen you wake up in the drunk
tank saying how’d dis shit happen
If you don’t want to look like a complete twat whilst commenting on this
video, then i recommend you proof read EVERYTHING! ^_^ not spot the mistake
This is great and so true! People say “I could care less” all the time xD
+MermaidhorseGaming He’s calling you a 7 year old. O3O
I never got why so many people can’t tell when to use “effect” or “affect”.
All you need to remember is that “effect” is a noun, and “affect” is a
verb. (I. E. “Eating too much can have an effect on your health.”/”Eating
too much can affect your health.”)
Was it just me, or were there some Freudian slips purposely put in there?
E.g. cunninglinguist, big dictionary, etc.
XD Some youtubers need to hear this.
К вопросу о изучении языков
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes: http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
*this is leik vincent’s song to me*
*BECZ IM SWEDISH AND Y GRAMR IS BEUJANKDK fuk its betr den ur mom*
– I could care less
– People think irony is a coincidence.
My BIGGEST pet peeves. It makes me cringe
How teachers will teach kids in the future.
Hey! You got something against mouth breathers?!?!
For the record the possessive of it, is its’.
This song describes my entire life. I literally go around the comments
section of some videos, and if the person spells too many things wrong,
uses the wrong homophone, or are missing punctuation, then I will correct
them. Sometimes, if they annoy me enough, I will go to the point of
rewriting their whole comment, correcting all of the mistakes. (I often
proofread my comments before posting them. Nothing can be wrong! I know I’m
a nerd, you don’t have to tell me.)
+Angel Deville for you…LMAO!!!
i hav some frends that ned 2 c this
Actually it is no longer a word crime for less or fewer, as using less
instead of fewer is now general use so is grammatically correct. Sorry Al.
There are actually 2 ways of looking at the English language. Even C. S.
Lewis who taught Eng. Lit. at Oxford noted this when one young reader of
his books wrote him. Apparently she was corrected by her English teacher.
Lewis wrote “…your teacher and I are not ‘English teachers’ in the same
sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English Language ought to
be: I’m concerned entirely with what it is and how it came to be what it
is. In fact she is a gardener distinguishing ‘flowers’ from ‘weeds’: I am a
botanist and am interested in both as vegetable organisms.”(letter of 23
April 1963). This video distinguishes between flowers an weeds.
OK, I propose a question to the group at large: if you are so tired that
you can’t move, would it be fitting to say that you *literally* couldn’t
get out of bed?
“Literally couldn’t get out of bed” could also be a hyperbole, so it
doesn’t have to be literal.