By Suzana Recycle Your Electronics to Bolster the Family Budget
In this recession, Americans are always looking for ways to cut corners, however they can. Most families are going through their budgets line by line with a red pen, looking for ways to trim the fat. The hardest part about this exercise in austerity is that, in general, middle class Americans have gotten used to certain creature comforts and what elsewhere in the world would be considered luxuries. The average family, even as it is getting kicked out of their home due to a defaulted mortgage, still find it essential to have two cars, six different pairs of blue jeans, and a cell phone that has a camera attached to it.
Some people like to spend their time pining for a simpler past. But the world has shifted, and there is no turning back. People now rely on their various home and work technologies, and this is not going to change solely when confronted with a recession. In fact, families that choose to skimp on electronics and other technological items may find that such decisions put them further behind, as so much of the world runs in the Internet and its related technologies these days.
So how do you keep up with the ever-updating list of essential electronic products? One way is to recycle your old ones. Yes, you read that right: it is possible to sell an apple notebook that has been sitting around your house for years so that you can help fund a new one. Being able to sell your apple notebook will allow you to make money on an old item that you once might have simply thrown away, or worse, had to pay for someone to dispose of (this is required in certain parts of the country because laptops cannot simply be tossed into landfills). This is great news! It used to be that when you bought an item like this, the only way that you could then sell the apple notebook when you were through with it would be to put out a personal add in the newspaper’s classified section, or these days, on a website like Craigslist. But now, it is easier than ever to get that old laptop off of your hands.
This is because a number of third-party companies have sprung up that will take your old electronics directly from you. You will not have to waste time figuring out what the best method to sell an apple notebook is, nor will you have to interact with every prospective buyer, only to have them fret about a slight smudge on the screen or a scratch on the outer shell. Instead, you can sell the apple notebook directly to this company, who will then sell it either for parts or as-is, depending on the condition, to someone else. Once you get it off of your hands, you will never have to think about the stinking computer again! What’s more, you will reducing your ecological footprint, as you will be engaging in the second of the three Rs – reuse!
