Thursday, September 30, 2010

Cd's

As I stated on Facebook, I'm loading all our CD's onto itunes and getting rid of our cd collection. I find they just sit and collect dust and take up two extra boxes when moving. It's funny with the ipod movement how hard it is to find a "boombox" or personal cd player. Someone asked me if we had any personal cd players the other day at work and we had two, both clearanced.
My sister Dawn sent me my first cd boombox player on my 16th birthday. My mom brought me to the little best buy store in the Moorhead Center Mall and I picked out Simon and Garfunkel Bookends. My sister, along with the boombox, sent me the wooden box edition of R.E.M.'s Automatic for the people. I became a major R.E.M. fan in fifth grade and since have a collection of 30+ cds. I of course am not getting rid of that=D
So I'm open to suggestions on what I should do with all our cd's. I would like to get something from all the money put into it. Is a couple bucks each a reasonable price to expect if I were to pawn or bring them to a used cd store? I've never sold something on craigslist...if I were to go that route would I have to hand deliver cd's all over Appleton?? I know some of you want to know what I have before I figure out what I'm going to do with them so as promised I'll post the list of what I have in the next day or two.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Plastic

Many know that I try to live my life as green as possible. Not to long ago Grant and I were driving and we saw a man throw a cigarette pack out his window...I honestly didn't know people still littered...silly me! When I check someone out buying the big ol packs of plastic water bottles I litterally want to lecture that person and tell them to get a reusable bottle...they are super fashionable to boot=D So I came across this video and it made me realize there is one thing I don't conciously do all the time and that's bring my own bags to every store. I do a lot of the time but sometimes I just go to the grocery store and don't even think of it and then add about 6 more plastic bags to my recycling bin. I'm going to pledge to ALWAYS have reusable bags in my car for whenever I take those unexpected or expected trips and just plain forget about them. I have a lot of reusable bags, and like the water bottles I have some pretty cute ones to boot!