Got a bunch of old computers lying around the house? I sure do. My closet looks like a frickin’ vintage Mac museum. I always think that I’ll find some use for them someday, but I never do.<\/p>\n
The problem is that it’s illegal to just throw them away in the regular trash (all that mercury and stuff in there) and dumps will charge you $15 to recycle it. I even tried taking it to WeirdStuff<\/A>, but IIsi and LCII were too old for even them.<\/p>\n So this weekend I brought 2 of my old Macs (you didn’t think I’d get rid of all of them, did you?) down to Office Depot<\/A> for their free computer recycling program<\/A> running through Sept. 6. That’s OfficeDepot, not OfficeMax or Staples. I can never get those straight.<\/p>\n Supposedly you can’t drop off more than one computer, so I came with one and they directed me to put it in the corner on a dolly. That was it. Later in the day, we came back and dropped off another. I probably could have brought in a truckload and they wouldn’t have noticed. By this time there was a dolly and two shopping carts full of old computers there.<\/p>\n It’s probably a good ploy to get me to go to Office Depot since I can’t remember the last time I set foot in one of those stores. I didn’t even know there was one nearby. Too bad I didn’t have any time to gadget gawk this weekend.<\/p>\n Now that I’ve got some closet space back, the only thing left to do is buy more computers. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got a bunch of old computers lying around the house? I sure do. My closet looks like a frickin’ vintage Mac museum. I always think that I’ll find some use for them someday, but I never do. The problem is that it’s illegal to just throw them away in the regular trash (all that mercury …<\/p>\n