Man, this is tough. We have to cut out SO MANY things from life. I love it, mind you, but it gets a bit tedious in spots. During the course of this week I went through my cd collection of some 400 discs and did some severe chopping. I think that in the end I ended up getting rid of about 100 cds (mostly all donated to the library since the cd stores suck and don't give you anything for trade in value). All of the rest I removed from the jewel cases (which will be stored on land) and placed the actual discs in sleeves in some cool aluminum boxes. Now my 300 disc collection only takes up about 1 sqft worth of room as opposed to the giant amount it took up last week. Downside is that I'm a nut for good quality CDs and good quality CD art.... Now, I have very very little cd art left to take onto the boat.
But, ah well, I figure living on a sweet boat will be well worth it. It was just one of the harder things for me to do in this process.
On the plus side, our library now has one of the more bizarre collections of obscure heavy metal that I know of.
Also, I really really like having less stuff. General and random stuff seems so burdensome now that I am rid of so much of it.
In the meantime, waiting to move onto the boat is killing us..... ugh the waiting!!
-Justin
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If you are up to it you can buy an external hard drive, take a day, convert them all to mp3 files and store them there. Maybe get two hard-drives so one can be back-up. It is probably worth the money, and will certainly save you space.
I live pretty minimally at the moment, having been staying in tiny NY rooms and now my relatively-big-but-still-small NYC apartment. It's nice, but it can get cluttered. Especially with school when you naturally acquire papers, books, and folders.
Anyway, good luck, have fun!
hmmm... now there's a thought.... Wish I'd have thought of that before I bought these nifty aluminum cases...
I shall ponder it further.
-Justin
Just checking out your blog and noticed the bit about cd's. My hubby and I are full time liveaboards since July 1st/06 and we downloaded our entire CD collection to an external hard drive that works in conjunction with our computer. It took up hardly any room whatsoever, and we didn't have to sacrafice a thing!
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