Force of habit

[cactuswatcher]

I needed to rearrange one of my closets this morning. I ran across my stack of 33 1/3 LP records. I haven't owned a record player in ages. Even if I had one I wouldn't listen to the records once a decade. So why can't I get up the nerve to give/throw them away?

Comments

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I guess that's part of it. I have no problem giving up some books, with other books it would be very difficult. I never had as many records. So I guess the few records I have are important to me, at least as nostalgia.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Books, on the other hand... you might read them again! And let's face it, the printed page is not yet an obsolete technology for getting your reading done on.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Back in the day I bought some pretty lame books for amusement, ones that make some of the least of my Buffy books seem like fantasic treasures. No regrets parting with them.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I cull my book collection with some regularity. Not so with my record collection, which I culled once about ten years ago and now just sort of tip-toe around.