I inherited 4,000 lps, and already had 2,500, already too many. That’s about 80 lf, 27 three ft shelves. I already had shelves for the 2500, I quickly bought 10 rolling racks of tall shelving, to stack stuff and lps to near the ceiling: the garage is a total mess still.
I quickly sorted the inherited into 2 piles, keep or go, and I mean quickly, out of the box: two piles.
First, I asked friends to come by and take whatever they wanted from the ’to go’ shelves.
Next, I found and had 3 good record stores come here, and give me a price. None wanted them all, so I ended up selling 700 to this one, 1,000 to that one, 400 to the 3rd.
I mailed 100 each to 2 nephews on the west coast who recently got into Vinyl.
I kept two rows, 9 lf each, just above and below eye level, easy to see and pick/replace, alphabetical, if I buy, it's 1 in, two out, that's it, and I want to weed them to what I realistically will listen to.
I had my son pick 50 lps from my 18lf for his 50th Birthday, and picked a dozen each for my two granddaughters (his kids).
I just gave 7lf of remaining unwanted LPs to a friend to give to his wife’s women’s group annual auction. Get em outta here!
That all took 4-1/2 years.
Lastly, I need to go thru the many classical that NOBODY wants, pick some to keep and get RID of the rest. (well, Steve at VAS came by to hear a cartridge he rebuilt on my system and I nearly begged him to take some classical, he bought 50. He’s the only one that would even take any).
The money didn’t make any damn difference, I should have made the record stores take them all or none, free, just get me some shelf space to get the garage back in order.
A good home? Unless you know for sure, people might lie to you and re-sell them, does it matter?
I don’t save books anymore, it’s hard to give them away. Nobody reads!
