Over the last year I’ve found that I’m a lot less anxious to buy new equipment and it’s not just because our normal three-bedroom terraced house is surprisingly full.

I think it’s partly because I have pieces of equipment that I either don’t use, or don’t use to anything like their capacity. My iPhone 3G is probably the one thing that I really use to something approaching it’s functional abilities!

So, my decision, my new year resolution if you will, is to use the stuff I have in a more efficient way. and to get rid of things that I can’t or won’t use. I need to include the whole house including the loft and the garage.

I have too many computers, too many audio systems, too many printers, too many books and too many magazines. And that’s just the stuff that I know I have!

The plan is to rationalise, to work out what I want to achieve in our home, and then configure the equipment that I have to make it happen. The rest of the stuff will be disappearing, hopefully not into landfill but somewhere where someone else can make use of it.

If you know that you can use some of my stuff for a useful purpose, please contact me here. Write and let me know what you would use the thing(s) for, how much you can afford to pay and I’ll send the goods to you. Any proceeds are going to Andy’s Angels, so please try to at least cover the cost of mailing.

To kick things off I have a blue and white Mac G3 tower with a built-in ZIP drive, and an HP Laserjet 4L printer with some spare cartridges. I’ll work out a better way of posting items up for grabs in the near future!

I’d also like to share with the readers of this blog where the stuff went and how it’s being used now, if that’s OK with the recipients.

It’ll be interesting to see where all my excess stuff ends up and what it ends up doing.

However, in recent years print magazines have become comparatively expensive (I bought three novels in Asda for 75% of the price of one car magazine) and so my reading has been reluctantly reduced.

Now, some of the guys behind Evo have launched a car website – Drivers-Republic – which is an online magazine about cars. And it’s really good! The photographs are of high quality, they’ve integrated video and there are plenty of forums and information about cars.

I can only assume that it’s funded by the ads as it’s still free to read. If you love cars, get over there, click on the ads and buy some stuff, and enjoy the read.