Putting a toe into the clutter

[urbpan]

Inspired by the great 2009 Massart (and associated industries) Facebook old photo explosion, I started looking through one of a million bags (and boxes and containers and so on) of old photos. Daunted, I managed to throw out about 20 blurry pics of nothing in particular. But I also came across a handful of cassette tapes. It occurred to me that as I go through all of my belongings, at some point I am going to stumble upon a few hundred cassettes. We do have a tape deck in our stereo, but we almost never use it.

Anyone want a huge box full of cassettes? It's probably a cool retro thing to have, but I see it as allergy-inducing junk.

Comments

[propaddict.livejournal.com]

You'd probably have better luck trying to give away Betamax videos.

Cassettes. . .gah. . .maybe the plastic is recyclable?

[candent.livejournal.com]

Has your Dad's situation affected how you feel about your own organization?

Also- one of the favorite books I have is the Vulture book you gave me. So cool.

[shellasaurusrex.livejournal.com]

if you'll ship them to ny i'll listen to them and then make coin purses out of them, i'd even ship one back to you

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You make coin purses out of cassettes?

[shellasaurusrex.livejournal.com]

i do. i make more selling them than I do off of my college education :) I'm a crafty little thing

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Do you have a picture of one?

[shellasaurusrex.livejournal.com]

i'm on my cellphone right now at the movies lol so no, but if you gooogle you should find a pic of one

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Did you sit through the three different commercials telling you to turn your phone off? Alternate question: is it a really boring movie?

[shellasaurusrex.livejournal.com]

yes i did, but i have a blackberry and i think it's considered a pda at this point. and yes. this movie is beyond lame (dog hotel or something like that)

are the tapes full of awesome 90's music?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, eighties and nineties music, from my whipper-snapper days.

[shellasaurusrex.livejournal.com]

i beg you to send me some

[momomom.livejournal.com]

NNNOOOOoooooo......

We have cassettes yes, but also reel to reel. And in the visual media we have 3/4 inch video from the 70s, and maybe 4 other types .... ACK

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine found some way to convert his cassettes into digital files, but it's time consuming. It has to be done in real time.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that ain't happening. I'll probably save some that I think are precious, but most of it isn't worth the time and bother.

[jmmek1.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Anyone who would convert a cassette tape to a digital file really needs to get out more. And I make Howard Hughes look like Brad Pitt.