My wife and I like the drive around and go to garage sales
occasionally.
I have been looking for a stereo receiver for my garage - and well,
she just likes to shop. We figure that why throw something away when
it could still have life - and mostly, I am just cheap.
So, after finding a suitable stereo receiver (Sony - $10), we hit a
couple of other garage sales and are just about to head home for the
day. We hit the last house, and are perusing the inventory. The wife
locates an old hello kitty cordless phone, and my son says 'Dad -
there is some apple stuff over here'.
I wander over to the cardboard box containing an old HP deskjet style
printer.... and there is a PC-style keyboard and mouse in there -
apple branded with an ADB connector. My son asked what they wanted for
it.....
'Give me a $1 and you can take it'.
So, I walked away with a great (working) full-size ADB keyboard for
$1. Gotta love garage sales. The sad thing is that it would have ended
up in a dumpster otherwise..... How much of this great stuff ended
up in landfills?