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Find myself just wanting to drive around and curb shop than work on this hoard.......I know the usual response......."Send it to me I'll process it"....or the "just suck it up and do it".........LOL.............I feel like the walls are closing in.......Everywhere I look.........Towers/printers/boards/monitors........ETC....ETC.....oh well will get it done sometime
That was me yesterday so I decided to have a garage sale instead lol
Sounds like it might be the winter doldrums aka cabin fever. Feels like every day is the same as the last and it's an endless repetition of the same old /same old ?
Curb shopping is the thrill of the hunt ? Kinda breaks up the monotony ?
I just landed 60 desktops and 4 boxes of misc "stuff" today.
I broke down the "stuff" and did 2 towers.. I'm like "Ehh.. not feeling it."
So I get you! I really get you!
Not really cabin fever......It has never gotten to cold here that two layers I couldn't work fairly comfortable.......Quote:
Originally Posted by hills
Sounds like you have a good supply stream. Maybe time to re-evaluate what your time is worth. Try to identify your least valuable item per unit time and pass it on to someone else. Free up your space and time for the more profitable items. If after this reassessment, you still feel buried, identify another low profit/high work load item and again remove it from your work stream.
A successful system does not stagnate, it evolves to its next successful form. You know what makes you money, but where is the best money? You have incoming material, divert the “scraps” and devour the good stuff. Just because something seemed worthwhile before, doesn’t mean you have to burden yourself with it now. Use the knowledge you have earned to earn the income you deserve. Knowledge is power, busy work is time consuming.
I find the best time to start to scrap down escrap... Is when the kettle is heating up for my first coffee of the day.
It sets the day off right and the caffeine hit gets me going and provides a serotonin release of pleasure accompanying the steadily growing pile of valuable escrap and the suddenly smaller hord of feedstock. :-)
Cold and snow are definitely factors in the mix but it's possibly more about low light conditions. The short winter days and long nights wear you down. Some say there's survival value in it. Up until a couple of hundred years ago people lived by the seasons. People worked hard during the spring,summer,and fall to put up enough food and supplies to carry them through the upcoming winter. Wintertime was a time of scarcity with little or nothing coming in. If you ran out of food halfway through ... your family would die of starvation.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
That's why our bodies are telling us to reduce activity and conserve calories when light conditions are low. We haven't evolved to live in this new modern world just yet.
Opposite that is the land of the midnight sun where people get so amped up on sunlight that it's harder to idle down and get some rest. That's the time of the year when the folks up North should be working extra hard to put up enough to carry them through their harsh winters.
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A number of years ago i installed fluorescent lighting in the shop that simulates daylight. After that, it wasn't a problem to go ten or twelve hours a day on e-waste as long as there was enough supply coming in to keep me busy. Last year, they switched over the lighting at work to high output led's. The crew is more productive this year & the general mood on the job is noticeably improved.
There might be something to the whole idea ?
I got tired and stopped picking up and pushed to get rid of my inventory and ship it to my buyer. This occurred May-June of last year. Fortunately I am retired and can live without the income.
Since that time when I stopped picking up I changed my mind on my one really good customers a computer repair shop and have picked up from them, twice. I still have lots of stuff on hand that needs to be tested, processed, sold and I continue to NOT to do much of it.
I have learned so much over the past 6 plus years most of it from other members of this forum. I think I don't have the burning need to learn more about ewaste. I'm tired of ewaste for now. 73, Mike
I'm kind o in the same boat. I think its the time of year ..............Heck this just motivated me
Glad I could be of SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CopperheadDave
I wish I had the problem of too much e-waste. It has been slow around here for me this winter.
I'll swap you my printers/copiers for your computers/laptops. I'll even throw in a Coleman cooler and a pair of Mechanix gloves :)
I second that deal. Printers are my nemesis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ecycle Atlanta
Actually my goal for 2018 is to get a LTL pallet full so I can finally send this (3 year in the making) load off! Seems too expensive any other way.
I think that is the thrill to me..........When I get a call I usually rush out to get item as I'm interested to see what it is........I still pay for some stuff (Very little) but most I take for free anymore.....I have probably 20x40 space filled top to bottom with junk electronics.....Towers/printers/Crt/Odd ball items....ETC........I work thru these items daily always on the hunt for Ebay stuff but in the end most of it is scrap......We shall call this "Job Security".........I'm sure other bigger people have much more than I do but those who know me here understand I'm basically a one man operation with a little help from familyQuote:
Originally Posted by miked
Appreciate the offer........If you have Okidata 320 Turbo printers brand new in unopened box I'll be glad to swapQuote:
Originally Posted by Ecycle Atlanta
When I was sending via fed-ex payouts kept getting smaller and the shipping bill kept getting larger........Had no other option than going pallet route or else was going to have to find different line of work........Pallets are the only way to go in this gameQuote:
Originally Posted by scrap1025
I'd say Montana is not exactly a "HOTBED" for electronics.........Here in urban area of Knoxville with Large universities and companies around plus the amount of population makes for pretty easy pickingsQuote:
Originally Posted by 2dogscrapping
Not that I'm happy you're feeling "blah" about the hoard, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one feeling..um..well BLAH! :o I was starting to think there was something wrong with me. You know..more than usual.
You need this!
https://youtu.be/hAO9A6saqWI
I concur with the blah feeling. I think a nice spike in prices would help lift us all out of this funk. Ewasted hasn't changed pricing since September. Gold and Silver have been flat forever :(
"You need this!" The North Korean cheer reminds me of some of the Obama cheer squads.
Today I actually picked up a laptop today and tested it out getting it ready for sale. Not out of the blahs but its a step in the right direction. 73, Mike
I have sucked it up and processed tons of material since I initially wrote this.......Now I understand why all this stuff is in storage..........It's costing me money to process plus very time consuming with runs to scrap yard/recycling/landfill etc........Keep up the good work guys........Oh yea 70 degrees today here in Knoxville
Sounds like progress!
Just because an item contains value(s), doesn’t mean it’s worth the time to extract it.
I’m a big fan of slowing down, timing, calculating, analyzing, then deciding if an item is worth ever revisiting/disassembling again. I only want to do multiples of profitable items, not multiples of failure to profit.
A business does not function well or grow, by doing tasks that fail to make profit.
sorry I should clarify........this costs me money up front but the pay off in the end is always more than when I startedQuote:
Originally Posted by Scrap Master J
Just gotta keep pushing. I finally just caught up on normal computer stuff and have finally gotten to and almost finished a multiple pallet lot of traffic control boxes I won at auction last spring. Since I started e-scrapping 1 year ago, almost 10 pallets have made their way to mario and gorven with butt loads of ram to PTS. The 1 school district I have signed up is worth $2-4K each time they call, so they are my main priority when they call every 4 months. Im now eyeballing the biggest school district in my city. I have made contact and will know something soon. That score could potentially turn this "hobby" into a full time gig or atleast a 3-4hr commitment each day after my day job. Very glad the market is stable somewhat on gold/silver, but like anyone else, I want it to go up. But I will take stability over volatility.
Success always includes the building of relationships and servicing of customers. Glad to hear you are succeeding. 73, MikeQuote:
Originally Posted by aaron p
Oh... I just sold an OKI brand new still in the box I picked up from a school system. Sold on Offerup for very good money ! Those DOT matrix can bring some $$$