Semi-productive Tuesday

This morning, I took a chair over to the donation center, then picked up empty boxes at the ABC store, and then hit the grocery store for bare essentials like sunflower seeds and cereal.

"That's a nice chair," he said. "It's sturdy," I replied.

Then I came home and researched how to wipe a hard drive on a computer for donation. I wasn't satisfied with the answers, so I then researched how to remove the hard drives from our old computers. Then I did so, and put the drives on the scanner and taped the copies to the respective computers so folks would know what part they needed to buy to have a functioning computer. I don't feel as bad about tossing a couple of hard drives. Note that in many counties it is flat-out against the law to put a computer in the trash.

Pretty dummy-proof, right?

Then I took a load of computers, peripherals, and office supplies over to The Scrap Exchange... including the second batch of wrapping paper I'd found.

It doesn't look like much, but it filled another shopping cart.

My friend, AB, commented that it was inspiring or somesuch that I was donating so much stuff. This way, I don't have to sit around all day and wait for flaky Craigslist people not to show up, and I can get rid of stuff in the order I want to get rid of it.

Of course, donation receipts may come in handy at tax time.

For instance, now that the old computers are gone, I was able to tackle a corner of the bedroom this afternoon. I think I might have a friend coming to town this weekend who wants one or both of these desks...

I don't know why my camera sometimes puts bubbles in the photo.

Well-used but with plenty of life left in it.

But if it turns out she doesn't want them, they're emptied and ready to take to the donation center.

The Babaloo, meanwhile, is working hard to pare down the pantry and freezer. He's much better at looking at ingredients on hand and figuring out what to do with them. Tonight, for instance, we used a bag of meatballs from the freezer, a jar of marinara from the pantry, a bag of shredded cheese from the freezer, and finished up some hoagie rolls from the weekend to make meatball subs. They were pretty good. Now, if I can just summon the post-dinner energy to go bag up and box up stuff to donate tomorrow...