On being virtuous...

It's long gone time that I divested myself of some of the stuff that I seem to accumulate effortlessly. There are unopened boxes in this house that were sealed two house moves ago, and the spare room is a boneyard of unused consumer electronics, replaced by more functional devices or rendered redundant because technology had moved on, but which I could never bring myself to take to the tip...

So yesterday evening I posted a set of offers on the local Freecycle group, and ten minutes ago the last of this batch of items went out of the door: 2 VCRs, a small TV, a mini hi-fi with a broken CD player, a very old slow black & white laser printer, and a fully-functioning scanner that isn't supported under Windows 7. It is satisfying to know they've gone to be re-used, and I can get far enough into the spare room now to start on the next batch of stuff.