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Often you throw something away that is of no value to you, but there could be a collector of it somewhere in the world.
Putting your ballpoint, lighter, shampoo bottle, cd-cover et cetera on eBay is too much hassle. The financial gain is not your motivation in this case, just to please some nerd
or artist and to not throw something away is enough.
Searching the database of collectors will also be fun if it also hosts pictures and indexes of the collections.
Freecycle
http://www.freecycle.org/
Recycling for free [8th of 7, Aug 27 2008]
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Why limit yourself to collectors? People want free stuff for all kinds of reasons. |
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If you're within reach of a craigslist site, that's another moneyless way of finding local recipients for free stuff. |
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Collectors should put their collections online if they want to, and some of them may be interesting to look at, but the benefits of centralizing that seem minimal at best. |
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When you give your stuff to a collector the chance that it will remain on the planet is higher, just because it is part of a collection. Then it gets value because of the rest of the collection, it can become part of our cultural heritage. |
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When you just give it away the thing is more likely to get used and then discarded anyway, probably in a less responsible manner than you would have done yourself. But indeed, when you just want to get rid of something to be used by someone else, some local craigslist or freecycle network is the way to go. |
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Collecting is a mental disease and should be discouraged, not encouraged. If anything, collecting would benefit from a version of aversion therapy, not further reinforcement and validation. |
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Ah, that's completely different - that's not collecting, that's altogether a more laudable direction of 'fixing things'. I myself, like many others like me, find it hard to throw things away "in case they come in useful", not only to myself but for pretty much anyone else out there that for want of whatever it is that I'm about to chuck out, might bring back into service their spluttering wheezing old Bromford Whistler pig-nudging machine, or be able to restore to non-embarrassing state their denuded and misfortunately scraped Arkwright-Fortesque "Pentonville Tart" steam-modulated cine-Daguerrotype parts-of-speech facsimile machine. |
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//Collecting is a mental disease//
Pah! Tosh! I've been enthusiastically collecting blubber around my waist for years and it's an eminently practical occupation. Without it, the shirts that I bought at the weekend would be much too big for me to wear. |
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