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slipjig3The pack-and-purge odyssey continues apace. After much literal sweat and tears, I've just about finished with the Ayers Rock of boxes that stood since time immemorial behind the futon. (If you've been here before, you know the one. It was hideous.) All that's left is half of yet another box of random papers (dear gods, how many of these do I have?), some ancient Gateway computer equipment that's dumpster-bound, and a few boxes that I don't know what to do with. I come to you, gentle readers, for sage advice.
It's all music, in one form or another. Box #1 is all my cassettes: mixes by me and by others, album dupes and store-bought, with a few titles that don't exist in any other format.
Box #2 is vinyl LPs, a combination of mine and my mother's, which she sent me a year or two ago. Some first-edition Beatles stuff and the like in there, although in far from ideal condition.
Box #3 is Mom's old 45's. This is an interesting lot, because she kept buying them even after she stopped listening to music, wanting to save them for her kids to show them what music was like back then (not knowing that the oldies would stay). This meant that she was shopping for what was representative, and not necessarily what she liked, so there's Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and so on, all first editions. Unfortunately, she didn't save the sleeves, so resale value is very slim.
Thing is, I have no way of listening to any of these items right now, but I may have opportunity to rip some of them to mp3 at a future date.
Opinions? Keep? Try to sell? Trash? Keep some and not others?
It's all music, in one form or another. Box #1 is all my cassettes: mixes by me and by others, album dupes and store-bought, with a few titles that don't exist in any other format.
Box #2 is vinyl LPs, a combination of mine and my mother's, which she sent me a year or two ago. Some first-edition Beatles stuff and the like in there, although in far from ideal condition.
Box #3 is Mom's old 45's. This is an interesting lot, because she kept buying them even after she stopped listening to music, wanting to save them for her kids to show them what music was like back then (not knowing that the oldies would stay). This meant that she was shopping for what was representative, and not necessarily what she liked, so there's Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and so on, all first editions. Unfortunately, she didn't save the sleeves, so resale value is very slim.
Thing is, I have no way of listening to any of these items right now, but I may have opportunity to rip some of them to mp3 at a future date.
Opinions? Keep? Try to sell? Trash? Keep some and not others?
