When I do inventories I tend to separate them into categories. Furniture, knick knacks, silver, china, etc. One of the ones that I keep up with the best is my inventory of Christmas Albums. Every time I buy new Christmas records I update my inventory. I figured that once I hit 50 albums, I should start keeping track of them.
One of the good things about keeping up with the records is it is easier to add to my collection without double buying. Anytime we go to Ed Mckay's, which is my main go to for used Christmas albums, I can pull the document up on my phone and see if I already have it. Yes, I have enough albums that I cannot remember all of the all of the time. I find this a very convenient tool.
Another detail about this inventory is I denote any family records with an asterisk. I got all of our Christmas albums that my parents owned. Bill and I grew up with them and they were a part of our childhood. With the cassette tape and cd's beginning to emerge in the 80's and 90's, we almost never bought new actual records so most of our Christmas records were from the 60's and 70's. I like having them labeled in case anything ever happens to me and Bill or someone else in the family would like to have them. Now, they know which ones they are!
Today my total is 140 Christmas records. I still listen to the all year long. I do make an effort not to play them in front of anyone else...at least not too loudly. Now I'm ready to find more albums and update this inventory again!
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