Should you sell or discard your old stuff?

Our trash land fills are filling up in part because of our consumerist buy-and-throwaway society. Can it be good for you and for the environment if more use is extracted from items we would otherwise throwaway? I think that it is good and that we can make some money in the process. One just has to pay a visit to the suburbs any weekend and notice all the garage and yard sales going on. Some people set this up as a small business venture! So, if you have an old TV set, computer, computer monitor, laptops, printer, refrigerator, washing machine, bookshelf, bicycle, baseball bat, basketball, baseball glove, skates or anything at all; a nice flyer announcing your sale will be very important for you to reach a lot more people and sell your items. Placing your flyer in the lobby of your building, supermarket or church's bulletin board or on any other appropriate place is important and your flyer needs to be eye catching for it to be effective. What do you think? Do you have items that you could sell instead of throwing away? Your trash could be somebody else's treasure. What would you sell and how much would you sell it for? Please detail. Thank you!

Can Spyware steal your identity?

Not only your identity... It is a small program you do not know about that got installed in your computer and that came from a suspicious site. You do not know it is there as it is hidden. How did the program enter your computer? It can enter your computer in many different ways. You could have gone to a p2p (peer to peer) site such as Limewire. P2p means "peer to peer", by the way. How do these programs work? Let us say that your mother uses the computer to purchase something using her credit or debit card; as she types her CC number, expiration date and security code, the spyware program relays your mother's name, address, CC information and more to the criminals' computers. Once they have this information, they can make a plastic card with your mother's information and use it to clean up her bank account and/or charge her CC to its limit. Stealing someone's identity is easier if you have all their information and this is a far worse situation than criminals just maxing out credit cards. In conclusion, it is essential to have a spyware protection program like Windows Defender installed in all your computers so that your personal information is kept safe. What do you think? Do you know anyone who has been the victim of this type of crime?