> to me the only tangible remains of the time when my dad was a boy/young adult have disappeared.
My parents, when they were young and carefree and enjoying life, used to make mix tapes. Loads of them. There was something almost magical about being able to listen to them in my old car, and experience a little window into what they used to listen to etc.
Sadly my car went to the great scrapyard in the sky and now I hold onto a plethora of cassette tapes I'm unsure I'll ever listen to. Silly really.
I'm also sorting through my parents things (the article is timely), here's a drive-by suggestion: pick up a Walkman on eBay.
My folks have a rack of VHS cassettes of their performances in plays, which they ripped to DVD at some point. I haven't started watching them but I'm lucky to have them.
Re:The great junk transfer is coming
by hammyhavoc on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:25AM
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Back them up. Homemade optical media perishes in a surprisingly short time. Drawers full of it.
Re:The great junk transfer is coming
by hammyhavoc on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:23AM
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Get a cheap tape deck and digitize them. They are just containers of information that will otherwise wear out. After that, get rid of both and enjoy the contents any time.
Of course 80% of it is junk, but 80% of everything I save is junk too, so I can hardly blame them for it.
My dad recently threw out a lot of his old school stuff that we’d gone through and looked at a few times during various instances of cleanup over the course of my life, and I think I was more sad than him.
I imagine he has all that stuff somewhere inside his head still, but to me the only tangible remains of the time when my dad was a boy/young adult have disappeared.