Music

We have gone through quite a progression in my time in regards to music. I remember reel-to-reel tapes. Then there were 8-tracks. We had 78 rpm records, then 45 rpm and then 33 rpm. We had cassettes. We had CDs. And now we have digital music. All in the space of 45 years or so! How is a person supposed to keep up!

I've thinned out my record collection quite a bit in the last decade or so. I transferred a bunch of them to CDs, including all of the 45s. I got rid of my cassette tapes a while ago. The 78 rpm records from my Dad went to Value Village years ago. Which leaves me with hundreds of CDs. They are neatly arranged on shelves... but the truth is... I hardly listen to them anymore! Somehow it's too much trouble to go and find a CD and put it in the CD player, especially when I'm working in my office. I have a bunch of songs on my computer, and I tend to listen to them... or to the radio.

So, in the interests of increasing my music library... and decluttering... I am transferring all of my CDs to the computer, into iTunes. It's not that hard, and once I'm done, I can put them all on my iPod and take them with me wherever I go. And get rid of the hundreds of CDs... hmmm...

Get rid of the CDs? But I spent so much money on them!! Yes, I'll have them in my computer but... what if that crashes? What if I lose all that music? Ahh!! Isn't that the way it goes with any sort of decluttering... I might need it some day! The truth is, I hardly listen to them anymore in the form that they are in... they take up space... I have outgrown some of them... and isn't it time to just let them go? There are many second-hand music stores that would possibly buy them... or at least some of them... and then there is always Value Village.

It would be quite the feat for me to let them go... and I dither over it. But... I think it's time... I think... maybe... It is time!