rick [email] said at 10:54 AM 02-18-2007: Congratulations on your new home! Hopefully, it will not be a money pit.
#1: Do you have as many as Imelda Marcos? If so, then yes, you do have too many shoes.
#2: Aren't most magazines part of digitized archives now; couldn't you just get them off the Internet if you wanted them for some reason?
#3: If you do not want your cassette tapes, you can send them to me, because believe it or not, I still use the cassette player in my car and I have no intention of replacing it. Or you could sell them (and the VHS cassettes to some used music stores; sometimes I see places that still sell that stuff). At least, you did not buy a bunch of laser discs.
ed [email] said at 8:46 PM 02-18-2007: "Congratulations on your new home! Hopefully, it will not be a money pit."
Seriously, one of my favorite movies ever. That Tom Hanks "Flight of the Bumblebee" scene *still* reduces me to tears.
I have two, yes TWO pairs of shoes. So I am probably the wrong person to ask.
I have a few cassettes that I still haven't converted to CD. These are irreplacable cassetes that never came out on CD, though. (Think demo tapes and local favorites).
VHS? I converted the important ones (wedding, f'rinstance) to DVD, and let the rest (the entire catalogues of Twin Peaks and X-Files) fade away. I can buy (or download) those eps anytime I feel the need.
I'm fully stocked with microwaves, monitors, and ugly lamps. I have no room for a couch.
I haven't had a treadmill in years, and it was big and clunky and ended up holding laundry for most of its life. Bookshelves are sacrosanct in the Eddington household. I will part with bookshelves when I die. No sooner.
ed [email] said at 4:40 AM 02-19-2007: It follows the standard format of "quick, easy, inexpensive - pick any two". I converted via computer with a video capture card and DVD burner. It was neither quick nor easy, but was inexpensive. So I only got one outta three. This was several years ago, so I'm sure it's much cheaper and easier now. Fastest and easiest way is probably to get a standalone dual-deck VHS/DVD unit and do it on the fly. Philips used to advertise one heavily on TV, so I assume they're still made... (Yes, I am pretty much out of touch with reality, so I need to make vague assertions based on nearly-certainly flawed recollections.)
carla [email] said at 3:04 PM 02-18-2007: 1. probably (but that's okay)
2. throw them away. i know it's hard, but once you do it you'll feel oddly liberated. OR! save them but use them to make abstract and avant guarde collages.
3. probably not, give them to Rick.
4. because they are cheap and easy to accumulate. buy a cheap plastic container or set of drawers from Target and put them shits in there.
meredith [email] said at 8:29 PM 02-18-2007: I like #4. I think I will go through the cassettes tonight. I will pull out all of the mixed tapes that people made me. I don't even have a cassette player. I have no reason to hang on to these.
Rick, are you going to be in Chicago any time soon? I will save them for you. I have lots of Billy Joel.
rick [email] said at 6:58 PM 02-20-2007: It is also a time of absolute freezing cold in Chicago, when the winds of Lake Michigan reach out and bitch-slap the face of the pedestrian. I am not sure if even the Dunkin' Donuts Turbo Hot can repel such an attack.
woody [email] said at 7:30 PM 02-18-2007: I don't think you understand. I believe these magazines span at least 10 years. I suffer the same afflication. I have 4 years of SQL Server mags. I still convince myself I will read ALL of those tagged articles someday, once I get my life "all caught up".
meredith [email] said at 8:27 PM 02-18-2007: Yes! Totally. I am sitting here with some of them that I think "there was a really good article in here that I may want to reference someday" reference to what end, I could not tell you. Then I have several others that I just have not had time to read that I think "Well, when I'm doing memorizing my lines for this play/finished knitting this scarf/done reading this book I will break them out and read them on the train". And I still believe that this will happen.
myriam [email] said at 10:48 PM 02-18-2007: When I faced this problem, I took the time to flip briefly through the most intriguing 10%, and scanned like 10 images from those. Then I threw them all away. This tactic gave me enough to feel like I had somehow done them due diligence and helped my brain let them go.
meredith [email] said at 9:23 PM 02-18-2007: Okay, so at the risk of leaving myself open for ridicule....
I just started going through my cassettes, and ... well, I forgot that I got a CD player for my 13th birthday, so most of these are mixes and I feel upset to part with them, however.... there are a few that are tapes. Purchased ones. So... up until the age of 13, this is some of what I listened to:
Tiffany, Billy Joel, Genesis, Roxette, Phil Collins, En Vogue.
meredith [email] said at 9:33 PM 02-18-2007: Dude, I just found "My Little Pony - The Magic Rainbow" cassette tape. No lie. I have this tape if anyone wants to buy it for a billion dollars. Ha! I think I'm drunk.
rick [email] said at 4:48 PM 02-19-2007: I believe the very first cassette tape I got was Hysteria by Def Leppard. In fact, one of my cousin's friends told me years later, his strongest memory of me was jumping around on my cousin's bed to Def Leppard.
I would later expand my collection with Poison, Young MC and Slayer.
I suppose I ought not say any more about my music purchases from the days of yore.
meredith [email] said at 1:01 AM 02-19-2007: Oh, also guys, I am trying to buy this treadmill on ebay but apparently I am going about the ebay thing all wrong. Any tips?
brianbibbly [email] said at 3:45 PM 02-25-2007: Here's my tip. Don't buy a treadmill. You won't even use it. Now, I know, you will say, "oh but I will and it will be awesome and it is cold outside, I can still exercise." EEEEEEEEEE, wrong. Trying to exercise at home never, i repeat, never works long term. It is hard as hell to motivate yourself to run when the cheetos and the TV are right there. Trust me. The treadmill will be an expensive clothes rack in less than 6 months. Go outside, go to the gym, keep with the karate. My two cents.
art [email] said at 10:08 AM 02-19-2007: Take the shoes, wrap each one in a page from the magazines that you want to keep. Stuff other pages in the shoes. Then, build a shoe rack out of the cassette cases and VHS tapes. The cassette cases can be the vertical supports and the VHS tapes the horizontal shelves. Each tape is about a shoe wide. See? Now put the lamp in the closet so you can see the shoes and read the magazine pages.
Now, knock out the screen for the monitor, tear the door off the microwave and and store books in both of them.
Lastly, sit on the couch and admire all the work you just did
anthony [email] said at 2:21 PM 02-25-2007: that's awesome. I'm hoping wherever I move next that I too can become a home owner, unless of course it's to go to school full time.
