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The reason our giant, broken dinosaur of a television sat in our driveway for months on end was not because we wanted to work the white trash chic aesthetic into our cute Capitol Hill residence. No, it sat there because we are cheap and lazy. It's a lethal combination. But the launch of the state's new free electronics recycling program, E-Cycle Washington, on January 1 meant we could no longer use our selectively mean nature to excuse the hulk of an appliance taking up space next to our almost-as-broken Ford Taurus. "When are you going to take that thing to the recycling place?" our housemate began to ask on a weekly basis. "Tomorrow!" we would chirp in reply, and then fail to take it when we said we would.

Our housemates will be thrilled when that huge old TV is gone from our driveway. The landlord probably will be, too, though he hasn't said anything. As of tomorrow, someone else is required to pick up the tab for processing that monster, the cost of which was our one remaining valid excuse for not taking it to a recycling center just yet. Thanks, E-Cycle Washington! Next up: getting someone else to come in here and clean out the basement freezer for free.