THE TWO ITEMS THAT I HATE FROM STORAGE UNITS!!!!!

I have more of these than i know what to do with.

Cut the ends off all the cords, throw them in a tub, and when you get it full take it to the scrap yard and make a few bucks on it.  All the cords and cables you end up with in lockers add up pretty fast.....I'm pretty sure I'm doing over 100 a month just in cords and cables.

As far as the vhs....keep one of the many outdated and obsolete video cameras you're bound to find and make some home porn!  Or not.....LOL!  I donate the commercially recorded movies to Goodwill and the home recordings and blanks typically go in the trash.

Cut the ends off all the cords, throw them in a tub, and when you get it full take it to the scrap yard and make a few bucks on it.  All the cords and cables you end up with in lockers add up pretty fast.....I'm pretty sure I'm doing over 100 a month just in cords and cables.

As far as the vhs....keep one of the many outdated and obsolete video cameras you're bound to find and make some home porn!  Or not.....LOL!  I donate the commercially recorded movies to Goodwill and the home recordings and blanks typically go in the trash.

I myself sell the cords for 50 cents to a dollar depending on the length and quality. As far as the tapes, I just donate them all unless I see one I want to keep to convert to digital over my computer and put it on a dvd.

BTW, there is money in doing that as well. But do not get caught pirating movies, rules still apply on that one.

Cut the ends off all the cords, throw them in a tub, and when you get it full take it to the scrap yard and make a few bucks on it.  All the cords and cables you end up with in lockers add up pretty fast.....I'm pretty sure I'm doing over 100 a month just in cords and cables.

As far as the vhs....keep one of the many outdated and obsolete video cameras you're bound to find and make some home porn!  Or not.....LOL!  I donate the commercially recorded movies to Goodwill and the home recordings and blanks typically go in the trash.

So you just cut the end that plugs into the wall off? or do you strip them too?

So you just cut the end that plugs into the wall off? or do you strip them too?

I personally would strip it,you get more for clean copper than insulated.

I just cut off the ends and throw it in the tub.  I do sell some of the really nice ones, but you typically get so many it's hard to sell that many.  I keep a big tub of them I put out at garage sales, and I haven't sold all those in three years of sales!  Stripping it is way too much work on the smaller stuff, but some of the larger cables may be worth it......depends on how much time you get into it.  You get more per pound stripped, but you have a lot more work into it and it weighs a lot less than fully sheathed.

If they are the standard cord which goes into the back of a desktop computer I keep them for my own use (as I get desktops with no cords for some reason) or I sell them for $1.00.

If they are brown, white or green extension cords that are 6 to 10 feet long I sell them for $2 to $3.

It is not worth MY time to strip cords.

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When copper theft was big in my area a few years ago I bought a lkr for $25 that was full of black vinyl strippings from some theif's efforts. The prop mgr said the police had been there and collected evidence...he was convicted...some are killed by stripping out street lights, etc.

Anyway, everyone thought I was nuts for getting it, but the two white buckets in the back (semi-buried) contained a couple of nice, heavy-duty YELLOW MULTI-METERS (forget the name, but many here will know it). There were some nice wire-cutters, etc too, so it paid off and the prop mgr let me put the stripped vinyl in their dumpster.

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As to vhs...HA !  I still see vendors of a particular ethnic background (it seems to me at least) laying out 100 or so of these face-up in orderly fashion on a 2.5 x 6  foot table and selling them for 50 CENTS each !  Incredible...how many do they sell in an 8 hour day?  Ok, sold 6....made $3.  In my mind that space could be better used for something else, but what do I know? Their other items aren't much better, but if it's all you've got...I guess it works.

look on craigslist its amazing how much people are asking for vhs tapes its crazy hard to believe anyone sells them.

i ws going to make a piece of furniture/art piece out of vhs tapes and was looking to buy on craigslist people wanted like a buck or two a tape, thats what a disc replay type store will pay for dvd's.

Cut the ends off all the cords, throw them in a tub, and when you get it full take it to the scrap yard and make a few bucks on it.  All the cords and cables you end up with in lockers add up pretty fast.....I'm pretty sure I'm doing over 100 a month just in cords and cables.

As far as the vhs....keep one of the many outdated and obsolete video cameras you're bound to find and make some home porn!  Or not.....LOL!  I donate the commercially recorded movies to Goodwill and the home recordings and blanks typically go in the trash.

Very true on the cords! I make about 70 per month as well.

So 22 gallon rubbermaid full of extension cords is roughly $100?

Up here in the Seattle area, we're getting .85 a pound #2 insulated copper, which is going to be most computer cords, extension cords, cell phone cords, etc., with the ends cut off.  I think a single tub averages out to about $68 bucks, depending on the wire and how dense you pack it, but that should give you a pretty good rule of thumb. 

Teacher,

Thanks so much.  I called my local scrap yard here in central oregon and they offer 1.22 per pound for insulated copper and will give me .65 a pound for the ends.  that will add up to a nice pile of change.

Personally I hate nasty mattresses and destroyed cheap furniture.

Personally I hate nasty mattresses and destroyed cheap furniture.

lol, I think we all hate that, I try to avoid units liek those, but sometimes cant help it because of other things in there.