Fri 15 April 2005 - A musical hypothesis
I could tell you about how I got halfway to work yesterday and decided I didn’t feel well and I was going home to spend a lazy day resting. But I won’t. Instead I will present you with a hypothesis:
That listening to the iPod makes doing the dishes go faster.
I also spent a little (just a little) time yesterday sorting out my CD collection. No, not some kind of High Fidelity-type sorting out session. I was pondering the CDs I’ve been putting onto my iPod, pondering those that I never listen to, pondering the lack of shelf space in the CD part of the bookshelf, and pondering if I might find some CDs that I can ditch, sell, dump, donate, lose, or otherwise get rid of.
While there are quite a few I haven’t listened to in some time, there were less that I felt comfortable in getting rid of. I did find about a dozen, however, which is a good start. The question then becomes how I get rid of them. I’m not sure I’m willing to suffer the humiliation of a secondhand record shop rejecting them.
If I can’t summon up the courage for that, maybe I’ll look through the selection and send a couple of carefully targetted emails to possible grateful recipients.
April 15th, 2005 at 8:32am
ebay is a good way to get rid of stuff you no longer want, but they need to be items people will want or need.
Having said that, a friend of mine found a “Jive bunny” CD (remember that 80’s remix thing?) in an op shop, bought it for 20 cents, then listed it on ebay and it sold for nearly $30!
April 15th, 2005 at 9:35am
You could sell them on ebay and donate the proceeds to Trish & Leanne’s MS Challenge! … [My, I'm getting quite brazen now, aren't I? I'll soon enough be fishing people's wallets out of their pants and helping myself to the cash!]
April 15th, 2005 at 11:52am
maybe you could conduct a social experiment with the really bad-taste albums - leave one or two lying around a food court or in a phone box somewhere and time how long it takes for someone to thieve it, or watch someone going through the thought processes… “hmmm, a free CD with no owner, but it’s crap… to steal or not to steal???”
April 15th, 2005 at 1:58pm
It is not a pleasant experience, I can assure you.
http://highriser.blogspot.com/2005/04/public-humiliation.html
April 15th, 2005 at 3:02pm
Reminds me…. did anyone buy the Gollum?
April 15th, 2005 at 5:02pm
At my workplace, we did an auction of old CDs to raise money for charity. I had the same problem as you mention - lots of CDs, a fair few that I don’t listen to much anymore, hardly any that I was prepared to get rid of (actually, it was only 2).
But my 2 CDs (which I would have been embarrassed to try and sell), raised $10 for charity, so I was happy.
- OLS
April 15th, 2005 at 5:53pm
Ebay is a good idea. I’ll try that. Sorry Trish, any funds raised will go to Daniel’s house purchase fund. I’m charitied out for now!
Yep, somebody bought the Gollum.
April 15th, 2005 at 7:06pm
what you mean people actually do housework (like the dishes)without music playing?
April 16th, 2005 at 6:23pm
Just in case no-one else has let you know
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1461195,00.html
David Tennant is to be the new Doctor Who
April 20th, 2005 at 3:57pm
You should NEVER get rid of CDs, just as you should NEVER get rid of books. Put ‘em all in a box and forget about them in the shed by all means, but NEVER, EVER get rid of them!