I'm cutting my teeth as a scrapper by taking monitors and televisions. They are all over the place, I've become efficient at breaking them down, and folks often have other goodies for me when I take their sets. It surely also helps that my county garbage transfer station will let me drop off an unlimited number of tubes and carcasses for recycling. By the way, I never cut cords but always take the whole whatever-it-is when I curb shop. I acknowledge that as a rookie I don't value my time as I might later when I look more to the bottom line. I'll have to see how that goes.