My Christmas Album Collection

 I love Christmas music.  I always have. Growing up, one of my favorite parts of Christmas was getting to listen to our Christmas records. We were never without a record player in our house and it got used at Christmas more than any other time of the year. Later on, when cassettes and cds started to grow in popularity, one of the things Mom and I loved doing was getting Hallmark's Christmas album.  They put out some good ones over the years.  I still have some of those cassettes somewhere.

Christmas music is my happy music and I listen to it all year long. I don't subject anyone else to it because not everyone is into it like I am.  Also, it's something that I cherish and it's very personal to me.  Whenever I am not in a good mood or depressed or stressed out I will put on a Christmas record and just relax.  I also like to listen them while I'm cleaning and doing housework. I have all of the Christmas albums that Mom collected over the years and love every one of them.

Several years ago when Michael got me my first record player that I'd had in like 25 years, I started searching for Christmas records.  Our local used bookstore was always full of them. And they were cheap.  It meant that I would have to sit on the floor and go through the bins under the racks, but I didn't mind.  I found great albums and my addiction to collecting Christmas records was born.

This past holiday season, it was my goal to listen to all of my records and inventory them as I listened to them.  That was from Thanksgiving to Epiphany. I was pretty happy with myself because I managed to listen to my entire collection and get them catalogued. Or so I thought. The other day while I was doing some cleaning in my office I came across an entire container of Christmas albums that I neglected during the holidays.  Honestly, I was thrilled about it because I now had an excuse to listen to them.  Not that I needed an excuse LOL 

I am about halfway through the container of records and my collection is up to 230 Christmas records.  And there are more out there to be found!  But I've promised myself I will finish this container before I hunt for more.  I look forward to that!