Oh, the nostalgia

Aside from the rare item, I don't usually keep anything I pickup. Mostly cause the wife would kill me on account of lack of space. But Im definitely keeping a few small items from a recent pickup.

Since expanding into ewaste, I still stick to scrapping everything since I don't have time or space for testing, let alone resale. So as far as computers and phones and such go, I don't even try to turn them on. But there's one thing I will mess with and that's old music cd's. Lately I've been getting a lot of shelf units with cd changers or straight piles of cds. And when I do, I set the cds aside for a listening session. Tonight was an especially fun one. As much for the music as for the handwritten cd labels. Everything from homemade mixtapes with funny names to old factory cds to stuff I've never heard before. My wife helps me break down computers here and there since it's a fairly easy inside activity while the baby sleeps. Tonight was a take apart session and we decided to play some of the stack while we worked. We mainly picked them by the labels, going for the mixtapes first. We heard a lot of music from 10 years or so ago that we grew up with, some that was older, and some we never heard before. Some good, some bad, and some that just gave us a good laugh. But it was a lot of fun the whole time. In the age of streaming music, popping in some cds feels like the equivalent of the older generation putting some records on the turntable. Especially when a lot of the songs brought us back to "the old days". I will definitely be keeping a few of the cds from tonight but only cause they take up so little room. Lol.

Ill keep the ones I come across for ya. Used to box em and donate or sell but no one seems to really want them anymore.

On a side note: maybe you could make a nice pair of huge hoop earings out of the 80s variety for her, or table coasters or use the most churlish ones for target practice. ...

I know what you mean about nobody wanting them anymore. I keep getting more and more. As long as I have room I'll hold on to them. Who knows if they'll come back in the future the way albums have now. Or they could end up like 8 tracks and cassettes where they're just a novelty I can pull out and tell my kids and grandkids "this is how we listened to music back in my day" lol.