Last night John and I combed through our wall of CDs and pulled out a great big box-full that we can get rid of without too much heartbreak.  :-) Of course all music is great music, and we enjoyed all those CDs while we had ‘em.  I’d keep ‘em all if I had a gigantic house, but we’re in an ordinary apartment, drowning in piles of CDs!  Gotta make some decisions, can’t keep everything just because it’s good.


As a couple, John and I have a huge CD problem, but we have different styles of collecting.  He buys more, and numerically speaking probably has twice as many as I do.  I don’t buy as much, but I get a lot of CDs for free or through trading with other bands.  Many of those only have short-term listening value… you might want to hear the band’s CD a couple of times during the weeks after you’ve met/played with them, but you don’t feel the need to keep ‘em just for sentimental value or whatever.  (I learned from watching Clean Sweep that memories are best kept inside the head!)

Purging-wise, John has been very good through the years about culling his CD collection, whereas I’ve let everything pile up to the point that I have no idea what I’ve got or how to find anything.  So the big box of purgeables is really mostly my stuff, though John did try to get into the spirit and chucked as many as he could.  Me, I still have a couple of shelves full of CDs I need to file, but at least I know it’s mostly keep-worthy stuff.  But man, if we were really on Clean Sweep you know they’d make us get rid of five or six boxes instead of only one!!

Next on my hit list: PENS and other writing instruments.  They’re breeding in little clusters all over the house.  I’m going to gather them up and only allow a maximum of 500 or so.