Excellent idea regarding the thrift stores, there's about 100 of them here on the Island.

In terms of computer techs (myself included) are notorious hoarders! Fortunately, I've overcome my hoarding and decided to sell it as scrap since I don't need to stock 200 power supplies, pounds of functioning RAM, etc.

It's great when you have an ample supply of computers to work on, but when they run out you're always looking for more. I'm usually able to talk my customers into recycling there old ones with us after we do a data transfer to their new computer.