Part of today's reorganization was the record collection, taking out some more things to get rid of, tightening up the shelves, etc. Then I decided I was curious enough to do a rough count of how many I still have.
At my
collecting accumulating peak around 2005 or thereabouts, I came up with a very rough estimate of there being 6,000 or more LPs in the house. Which was totally out of control because about half of those hadn't even been sorted, or examined for condition and tossed or put away properly.
So I think it was in the year before I joined this here jernt .... over a couple of months, I went through the ones sitting around in boxes and whatnot, and donated carloads of records to library sales and thrift shops. There was very little that would have been worth trying to get any money for due to condition or title or whatnot, so I was fine with getting them the HELL out of here. That was an almost indescribable relief. When done, every single thing I still deemed worth owning was on shelves and, for the first time, not scattered about the house but all together in one room -- the Music Room, of course.
So, back to today's rough count. You could never make a literal count. I took conservative averages of what the various shelves held, and was shocked, shocked, to estimate that I still have some 3,500 LPs. Believe me, it doesn't look like any such thing. But...maybe it really does, and I don't see it that way because I'm used to it. However, I do have a vision of what the collection should ultimately look like, space-wise, and I will be all the happier when I get that total down at least several hundred discs.
You know, I do need that drink. Bottoms up!
