Things we old people must do - beginning at several years in, gave our status, several years in from when we started ridding our house of stuff. The posting concentrated on disposing of vinyl records & record playing equipment.
WichiDude started through the records, Saturday. This is the "after" photo of the record stash after his visit. I can't see a lot of difference; but, he promises to come back a few times. (He is a slow, methodical dude.) Oh! The things that I had identified on the top shelf (other than the box) turned out not to be records, but a boxed set of cassette tapes containing episodes of old radio programs from the 1940s and 1950s. I let WichiDude take the set, even though that put us out of sequence. We'll handle culling cassette tapes after we finish with the vinyl records.
WichiDude, having in his early years worked at a radio station, had plenty of record playing equipment scavenged from the station when they went digital. Thus, I made a trip to the local Goodwill store, taking everything that had been on the table except the Heathkit tuner/amplifier. That piece of equipment earned a reprieve being capable of providing scavenged parts should its twin need them.
Change the deal, so that WD has to take them ALL and sort what he wants to keep at his place ;-)
Posted by: Stu | December 11, 2018 at 01:56 PM
Stu--If it would not cause a divorce between WD and Dudette, I would send everything, not just records, home with them to figure out what to do with what. (It probably feels to Dudette that that is exactly what's happening - lol.) This whole effort is aimed at making life easier for our kids when we die - not harder for them while we live!
Besides: How else to get WD and Dudette to come see us more often than to have them "obligated"? I had no idea that WD would be so keen on scavenging from our musical collections considering that he is only 61 years old.
Posted by: Cop Car | December 11, 2018 at 06:47 PM