On the move! Also, questions

[jerusha]

As it happens, anach and I are about to move (aigh!). Basically, we currently live in an apartment above a storefront. The owner of the building wants to convert this space back to commercial use and use it in his own personal business. Therefore, moving.

Pursuant to that, I have some questions that I'd like to throw open, to see if anyone has any helpful ideas or comments.

• Electronics to dispose of. We have several broken and/or antique pieces of electronics hardware that we'd just as soon not move. This includes a (tube) TV, a broken DVD player, a broken Playstation (first gen PS-1), a semi-broken multifunction color inkjet printer (still prints but won't scan) and a vintage 1996 Macintosh laptop with dock and 17" external monitor.
  1. If anyone wants any of these items, to play with, dissect, scavenge for parts, they're all yours. [TV and monitor will only go for dissection to people I know have enough experience with electricity to do so safely.]
     
  2. Electronics recycling. I'm willing to pay (although obviously free is my favorite), but I'm not willing to wait for any local municipal recycling day - I plan to move these items once, from the current location to their final disposition. We're in the West Chicago suburbs.
     
  3. Any other options. Unfortunately, all the items are too old or too broken to be worth donating to anyplace for refurb/resale.
• I have a lot of old videotapes (mostly with recorded TV shows that have since come out on DVD) that also need to be recycled, donated, or otherwise disposed of. Ideas welcome. (Also, I have a complete set of Babylon 5 on DVD, lovingly recorded by quaryn_dk. I've got it all on DVD now, but if anyone wants the videotapes, let me know.)
  
• Bookshelves to be built. I'd like to build a set of Mobile Aisle bookshelves for the paperback collection. (That's the sort where you have n bookcases, but only one aisle, and you move the cases so that the aisle is where you need it to be.) Anyone who's willing to talk to me about construction techniques, pitfalls, etc (including listening to my rough idea and telling me I'm crazy and it won't work because of $reason), any/all help is appreciated! Unfortunately, all the manufacturers for already-built sets are aimed at institutions much larger and better-funded than my private collection.(NB:asking mostly for general engineering and construction help, not detailed blueprints or trade secrets)
  
• Shredding services. I have a fair amount of old paperwork to get rid of, including (embarrassingly) boxes of papers that I moved from Cleveland in 1999. Since these papers include bank statements (albeit to accounts long since closed) and other financial documents, I'd prefer to have the papers destroyed rather than just going out in the trash. I would also really prefer not to sit here with my home-grade shredder feeding it sheet by sheet by sheet (both from lack of time and lack of interest). I'm going to start calling around to accredited document-destruction outfits, and find out how much they would want to throw a box or two into the hopper of their industrial shredders, but if anyone has any recommendations I'm happy to hear them.

There will probably be a desperate plea for physical help moving at some point, once we're sure of where we're going and when. (If everything goes as currently planned [ha!], it would be the weekend after FKO, which is April 17-18. Because unexpected move or not, we're going to FKO, dammit! Mailed our pre-reg and everything!)

Please note: This is a PUBLIC POST. If you know anyone not on my FL who might be able to contribute ideas, or who wants any of the donate-for-dissection items, send 'em over!