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Amazon.com is now offering to buy your old CDs.

Is your house about to burst at the seams with all the stuff you've gained from the holidays? Do you feel compelled to just toss everything in the trash just to get it out of the way? Here are some tips to help bring sanity to your household and declutter for the new year.

The City of Durham will be hosting a paper-shredding, e-waste and Christmas tree recycling event on Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Sears parking lot at Northgate Mall.

Nearly all electronics with a cord will be accepted for recycling, including:

The Ecolube store at 4901 Atlantic Ave. which served as a recycling drop-off center will be no more. Recycling containers have been removed due to the store's closure.

Raleigh will be making it a bit easier to recycle TVs and computers once the electronics landfill ban goes into effect on July 1.

The city will be offering free curbside collection of computers and TVs for residents once a month on pre-assigned days.

Are you looking for more ways to recycle disused electronics? Today's article in Connect on the landfill ban offers a list of county and city programs, but many retailers and electronics manufacturers have recycling or trade-in programs, too.

In preparation for North Carolina's July 1 landfill ban on TVs and computer equipment, Chatham County is expanding its existing electronics recycling program.

Special recycling containers, or E-Cycle Stations, will be set up by July 1 at all 12 county collection centers to accept electronics weighing less than 50 pounds from county residents with a current decal.

In 24 states, including North Carolina, your computer and other electronics is no longer considered trash. Read more about the states requiring e-cycling by law.

If you have any disused or dysfunctional electronic devices with a plug, Wake County will probably recycle it.

The business of selling electronics has certainly become more difficult lately -- especially for the little guy. But some, like Garner TV & Appliance, are fighting back. 

Garner TV & Appliance recently opened a second location in Raleigh, in the BJs anchored center near Triangle Town Center. To raise awareness, the company hired an advertising agency and created Dillon, the company's new mascot of sorts, who is being featured in radio and TV ads locally. Dillon, according to the radio spot, is "an English major working at the big box stores so he can buy books, pizza, and oddly, a growing gnome collection."

General manager Randy Pleasant said the ads aren't targeted at any one big box competitor (though the colors featured on the Big Box sign happen to be blue and yellow).

"We're just trying to do something different," Pleasant said. 

The new ad campaign is a big departure for the company, which traditionally has produced ads filmed in the store touting the company's family-owned, customer-friendly nature. There are already plans for additional ads featuring Dillion in the future. Click here to go to the TV ad, or click below to hear the radio spot.