How can I remove these?

[piskieinboots]

the present Mr Piskie still (STILL!!) has boxes of vinyl ...as in record thingies..... why WHY I ask - we don't even own a vinyl player

I have tried on many occasions to prize them away from his body but nope he has a very very strong grip when it is needed.

What have you got that you cannot bear to part with?

[Marthaclematis]

There is a school of thought that says that recordings on vinyl have a better sound than on cd, more 'real', more 'earthy' and less is lost. You will find that there are still turntables being manufactured and bought. A friend of ours has just paid a lot of money for one and plays his vinyl in his 2nd lounge upstairs.
We still have about 200 vinyl records in our downstairs cupboard and there is NO WAY dh will part with them although none of them have been played for about 10 years! He keeps saying 'but one day I will copy them digitally' 'but one day I will play them on the record deck (we still have our old one set up).' As we have the room at the moment its not such a problem but one day we will downsize and those records... he'd better find a place for them!

[HeyWayne]

I can understand that.

I have several hundred CD's - all of which I have now "ripped" onto both my PC and the stereo, so theoretically I have no need for the actual discs. However, as I've painfully found out - if the computer/stereo went pop, I'd loose the lot!

I like to have something tangible though - artwork, lyrics etc.

I've never understood the love of vinyl, but then I guess the digital generation will struggle to see the point of CD's in years to come.

Given what SD's been/going through at the moment, I guess he wants to hold on to as many things as he can that remind him of yester year...

[di]

the present Mr Piskie still (STILL!!) has boxes of vinyl ...as in record thingies..... why WHY I ask - we don't even own a vinyl player

I have tried on many occasions to prize them away from his body but nope he has a very very strong grip when it is needed.

What have you got that you cannot bear to part with?

Did you just post that or me??!!
Each time we move he goes through the whole.."they're probably worth a lot of money..."~so WHY instead of dedicating valuable space storing them(to never look at let alone listen to)can we not sell them??......he's got some rather hideous engraved buffalo horns also!
I on the other hand....have tat littering the majority of the house which has sentimental value(honest it does!!!)...the one that gets his goat is a cross stitch that I started nearly 20 years ago...I've moved it with me in the region of 8 times,the sad thing is I neither enjoy cross stitch nor particularly like the picture!but....I might get round to doing it one day!

[lynda66]

ebay is your friend

i have an ancient desk, my grandad got from a big posh house for doing some work just after the war, apparently money was in short supply, so they gave him a painting and the desk ....... doesn't go with anything in the house, but can't bear to part with it, thankfully it's not huge, so sits in a corner of my bedroom, the painting sold at auction 20 years ago for £40,000 ........ i live in hope

[HeyWayne]

Actually, I saw something the other day that allows you to play a vinyl record and record it onto CD - complete with crackles and everything.

Goes and has a little look for it....

[Marthaclematis]

... there is nothing I cannot bear to part with, I am quite peculiar I think in not wanting to hold onto the past, and its not because the past was unhappy - it can be the past as in last year's valentine card from dh, or a frying pan we've had since we were married etc.. And I REALLY do NOT understand people holding onto teddies and stuff, UGH..! I find women (for it mainly is) who have cuddly toys on their desk or in their bed to be really wierd. Sorry, it makes me cringe....I just think its some kind of 'wishing to remain an adolescent', some kind of daddy's girl syndrome and a desire not to grow up and take responsibility for the age you're at.
I got rid of all my cuddly stuff when I was about 13, and I would encourage any child to do the same.

[zazen999]

It's both of us that hold onto Vinyl. We love to pop some on the turn table on a nice warm summer evening, summer salad and some Pimms.

I got rid of a load on ebay a few years back, and probably will filter a load more out when we get our new Garden Room [my new office and storage room] built, but I can't wait to pop on some old indie stuff and while away the hours listening to some old classics.

[lynda66]

i still have all my sons first teddies, they live in the loft, i also have his christening outfit and shawl, i always thought it would be nice for him to give them to his babies.

oh and i have tigger sitting on my pillow

[SlugLobber]

I still have quite a bit of vinyl, conveniently stored at my Mum's house, only 250 miles away. All my original Queen albums are vinyl and I'm very reluctant to part with them. Haven't got a turntable at my house, but OH does and there's also a small stereogram in the loft, which we plan to get out, as a laugh!

Things I have now which I won't get rid of:

-A pair of socks which my cat, Willow, loved as a kitten. They make me smile every time I see them, as I remember her climbing anything and everything to get at them!

-Kermit. Had him since my first Christmas, so he's 31 years old. Not bad for a frog!

-My first work security pass. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I look good in the picture!!

-My BWFC mug. It has cracks from where it was repaired, but I've had it since I was 14/15 and it's always been my 'work' mug! The same applied to my BWFC scarf, but the bloody mice got that in my tack room last winter!

[Marthaclematis]

See, if I did that - kept a pair of socks which belonged to my first kitten - it would make me sad every time I looked at them because my kitten isn't here anymore. I think perhaps I'm just TOO sentimental to hold onto things, not the other way round. I don't particularly like looking at old photo's of good times either, even though things are good right here and now. Maybe it reminds me that time is passing too fast and that one day all this will be over...

[lainey lou]

Why don't you buy him a record player for christmas? I think that'd be a fab pressie.
OH finally persueded me to get rid of my vinyl a few years back,(we didn't have a record player either. I really regret it now.

[Polly Fouracre]

Looked through a box of years old "things" a few weeks ago being in a throwing out frame of mind. I found it full of home-made Christmas, birthday, mother's day cards etc.
"Hapy Morthers Day Morther". Could you throw that out? No, they all went back again. The child involved is now twenty seven(and still can't spell!!)When I am gone my children can "ahhh!" over my sentimentality and throw them out themselves.
Another thing I couldn't bear to part with is Jim!

[Alison]

I wouldn't chuck my vinyl for love nor money - as Lainey Lou says, get a turntable, they don't cost that much and I love mine. Listening to my old faves while reading the proper sleeve notes is a great way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon.

[snuffer]

Have to agree with Marthaclematis re. the photographs. Yes, photo's are a record of happy times but looking at them just reminds me that those times have gone. Even photo's of the children when they were younger make me a little sad. There they are, not a care in the world but now they've all grown up they have to deal with all the day to day problems and crap that I've dealt with over the years. Makes me want to weep.