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From one "Dick" to another! (long and a bit maudlin)

Posted by Dick Schneiders (A) on December 16, 2005 at 03:33:18

In Reply to: Goodwill is good to me (what I got while unattended.... ) posted by Dick Laurent on December 15, 2005 at 22:01:24:

You are in deep trouble, my brother. This is exactly the sort of activity that got me where I am today - with 20,000 lp's and many more 45's, 78's, etc.

I got to the point, back in the 1970's, that if it was flat, circular and had a hole in the middle, I would buy it. I figured that at least one song on every record would be worth playing. I was wrong, over, and over, and over.

What sort of brought me to my senses was going to a local estate auction of someone that had, according to the listing "a lot of records". This was a huge understatement. There were dozens and dozens of large boxes of records each holding 100 or so albums. This was somebody that had moved from California to Kansas years ago and had shipped all of these records with him. Now his stuff was being sold off and it was only bringing a few dollars per box. I only had a couple of hours to browse the records before the auction started, and I finally gave up in frustration. There were so many and were so tightly packed, that it was nearly impossible to even look at what was there. They didn't seem to be organized at all, either. I only bought a few of the boxes, that did have a couple of records in them I wanted, but left feeling that I should have bought them all and sorted it out later. However, this started me thinking that I owned more records than were in that auction, and that I really had a large white elephant on my hands. The fear that someday all of my valuable records would be sold off for pennies each, lead me to start selling many of the better ones in Goldmine and Discographies and other magazines for record collectors.

Now I am still in the same situation, but rue selling so many of my best records. I am 20 years older and still wonder what will happen to my collection, and that I don't want to leave the "mess" for my young wife to deal with. And yet, I continue to buy more and more records.

Sick, I tell you, I am sick!!!

Good luck my friend, you will need it.

Dick Schneiders

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