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Time to weed the LPs.... (choosing stuff to dump)

I am in the process (again, every few years) of weeding the Rock LPs. Going through newer stuff to decide to sell to my fav. record store, or keep.
I do this every few years to thin out the collection gradually. Eight years ago I did a major cull removing 6,000 LPs of 12,000 to move. Over the last six years I have cut that down to 4,500 (and probably buying 500 of those during that time).For all sorts of reasons it is a good project. Get rid of cobweb covered music I have no use for, (and maybe someone else wants) Frees up a small amount of cash to waste on more Stereo junk.The main thing is the collection gets better, more just what I really like.Anyone else clear out the junk now and then?(For the question already forming... and no I will not sell them here. I have bought tons of stuff at my fav. record store, I like them, and sell all my records to them.  LOL)
elizabeth

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I was in the military for 27 years and had to move every 2-3 years, so culling was imperative.  While I was quick to adopt the Kindle (books are heavy, too) I never could bear to separate completely from my records.  Now that I am retired my record collection has grown exponentially in a short time.  Time to cull again.

Here is my process:

1- is the record in poor condition?  Scratched, mold, etc.  maybe I bought it as a placeholder at a garage sale and found a better copy.  Take it out

2- is it a genre I am no longer interested in?  Comedy albums, Christmas, Icelandic Death Metal...take it out

3- is it a collectors items or has sentimental value? Put it back in.  

4- Go back and do it all again.  This time be brutally honest.

5- Have a garage sale and mark everything for $1

6- anything unsold give to a deserving charity shop. Rejoice in knowing you have returned the vinyl to the wild so I may be found by another collector/hoarder

7- Get settled in and buy more. 


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8- continuous process:  if i don’t  like the album, and/or Discogs says it is is not worth anything or nobody else likes it, take it out. 
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Hey, Schubert!  Of course I was Air Force!  Was it the checklist that gave it away?

i am always fighting that hoarding mentality.  Approaching 1500 records and I can’t imagine having 12000 and still being married. 

I rarely sell my records but did buy a Simon and Garfunkel record once at a garage sale.  Turned it was a rare mono print in mint condition and sold it on eBay for $165 to some guy in Austria.  
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Elizabeth,  I love your comments about supporting your local record shop.  I have met a few skeezy ones, but for the most part they are salt of the earth types who love music.  I really developed my love of music and records through my local used record shop, the Record Connection in Waterville Maine.  I still stop by when visiting my parents and chat with the original owner Bob. 

Around here in southern Maryland I tend to frequent the flea markets.  Same philosophy applies; musics, friendship and support.  If I don’t want a record, and one of my flea market guys can make a buck off of it, then great.  
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