What to do when you're poorly.

Eric and I completed a 1000-piece puzzle over the last week while nursing nasty colds. I hadn't worked on a puzzle in decades and mostly enjoyed the process. We completed the frame first, I assume that's how most folk do it, then we tried to complete as many structures within the framework as possible. The least enjoyable bit was filling in the sky as that wasn't so much matching swatches of color as it was literally trying every mostly gray piece against every other until something clicked. 

Here we are pre-sky completion--

Color me lazy, but I purchased this San Francisco-scape puzzle because I thought that it would be easier to complete than not. Actually, had I had a better look at the cover art, then I would have realized that nothing depicted was geographically accurate. So, yeah, Chinatown is across the street from the Ferry Building and the Palace of Fine Arts would be appear to be under the Golden Gate Bridge! Nothing was logical about this scene, but it does look nice now that it's completed. What to do with a completed puzzle? Does one just deconstruct it and pass it on to someone else? I imagine that charity shops won't accept puzzles as donations in case they are a piece or two short. Imagine how frustrating it would be to attempt to complete a massive puzzle like this only to have a few pieces missing from the box. No, thanks.