After moving back home from Oxford on Sunday and unpacking, I discovered that the large quantities of books I have obtained in the last year mean that I can no longer see desk space in my room. I did buy these books (loosely) for "academic reasons" because some of them are vaguely relevant to my dissertation but this leaves me with the problem of not actually having anywhere to set my computer up and write it.
So I have decided to have a clear out of everything in my room that I haven't used in the last 2 years. If I haven't used it in the last 2 years and I don't have a sentimental attachment to it, I reckon its space could be allocated to "A History of the Mind", "The Symbolic Species" or "A Mind So Rare".
Anything thats pretty good I'm going to try and sell on Ebay because I am feeling rather poor at the moment, after spending all that money on Wadham Ball last Friday. However my charitable spirit has not been completely depleted, and anything thats not amazing but half decent I will take to Oxfam. Included in this "not amazing but half decent" pile are my old mobile phone, an IT GCSE revision book and some NME cds, amongst other items...
Anything that is pretty much rubbish but I am reluctant to send to landfill (for reasons already mentioned i.e. landfill releases greenhouse gases) I will put on Freecycle, which is an organisation that allows members to post on a message board items that they no longer need but someone else might find useful. Other people see posts and think "Aha, thats useful" and go and pick whatever it is up from the donor. You're unlikely to find a Nintendo Wii or Gucci shoes on there but you might find leftover patio tiles, garden tools, packing boxes and a whole host of other stuff that you can in fact make use of. Find your local Freecycling network at http://www.freecycle.org.
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