Working on Records

 

This week, I decided to work on thinning out my record collection.  Now, I love listening to records and I do it just about every day!  But, I simply have too many of them.  There's not room for all of them on the record shelves and I end up, like with books, with stacks of records throughout the house.  While I love them, it's just simply too many.  I love collecting them, but I just need to make room for other things.  When we go to the used record store, it becomes a problem because the kinds of records I buy are normally all less than $1 so I'll walk out of the store with a stack of 30 or so records most likely.  And while I love the thrill of the hunt, it's getting out of hand LOL

So, this week, I went through all of the records and pulled out the ones that I can let go of.  Now, we're talking about close to 400 records so this was no small task.  Still, it was easier than I thought.  And I did have a few criteria for keeping records.

Is it a Christmas album?  Yes, I'm going to keep those.  No questions asked.

Is it a family record?  Same.  Going to keep those.

Do I love it enough to listen to it again?  If I do, I will hold onto to it....at least for now.

Am I keeping it simply because I like the album cover?  In this case, if it's the cover I prefer over the record itself, I will let it go.

Is it valuable?  I have a few that I think are worth something.  Again, not a huge amount, but enough to warrant holding on to.

So, now I do have stacks of records around the house still.  But these stacks are on their way out of the house.  Hopefully within the next few weeks or so.  Admittedly it feels good to make changes like this. It's nice to see the floor space again LOL  Now, I just have to get the protective sleeves off of the ones I'm getting rid of so I can reuse.  Whew!  So ends today's episode of Around the House.

That is all.