{"id":224,"date":"2007-05-28T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T01:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/28\/holiday-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2007-05-28T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T01:59:50","slug":"holiday-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/28\/holiday-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/129\/329601218_84914d0c39_m.jpg\" alt=\"Old Tech\" height=\"162\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 162px\" title=\"Old Tech\" \/>With the day off we decided to do some spring cleaning.\u00a0 My office tends to pile up over the school year.\u00a0 Under my desk I found two seventeen inch CRTs and a color laser printer with no toner.\u00a0 Some time during the last year I went to LCD monitors.\u00a0 The old ones ended up under my desk.\u00a0 The laser was my old HP 2500.\u00a0 Last year when the toner cartridges needed replaced, I found a new 2550 for the same price as the replacement cartridges.\u00a0 In addition to all new toner cartridges, the 2550 came with a one year warranty.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t bear to throw this stuff away. It cost too much the first time around.\u00a0 I do my best to recycle what I can.\u00a0 I always have a (rather large) shelf in the garage with &#8220;take it if you can use it&#8221; stuff.\u00a0 Last year I managed to find new homes for two or three monitors, an old computer case and an HP LaserJet 4 that needed a fuser.\u00a0 On top of that, a lot of stuff goes from my office right to friends or family.\u00a0 I would\u00a0prefer to have someone get use out of something than store it in my attic.<\/p>\n<p>I have to take the trash can out to the curb now.\u00a0 Tomorrow I&#8217;ll have to go shopping for some new junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the day off we decided to do some spring cleaning.\u00a0 My office tends to pile up over the school year.\u00a0 Under my desk I found two seventeen inch CRTs and a color laser printer with no toner.\u00a0 Some time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/28\/holiday-cleanup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}