organize my record collection

My boyfriend and I have a huge cumulative record collection. So I alphabetized the entire collection yesterday. It took about 6 hours, but was well worth the effort. His records make up the greater fraction of the collection, but I was thinking to myself, that is when you really know you are committed to someone, when you are ready to merge your records into one collection!
So I basically started taking the records off the bookcases, and leaning them againest the walls in stacks by letter. Then when I finished that, I took the A’s and alphabetized them, as I put them back on the shelf, going through the entire alphebet. Tedious, but again, so worth it!! Now we can listen to whatever we wish, becuase it’s easy to find, and there are so many albums I didn’t even know we had, or had forgotten about.

So, I’ve been a long time record collector. We didn’t have a CD player at home until very late in the game, and even once we did I was used to buying vinyl, so MOST music I continued to purchase was on record. When I went to college, and starting to DJ at the college station, I did the vast majority of my show off LPs. Along the years I’ve kept my kids records from growing up, and tried to complete my collection of Sesame Street records now as an adult. When I kept moving constantly, I boxes my at the time, entire collection up and brought it to CT to store with my Uncle.

I have since then collected yet another huge library of music. I don’t remember if I am storing LPs with other family. On a recent visit to CT I estimate the collection there to be around 1,200 LPs.

I have pulled several favorite albums up to NY with me, including: Sailcat – Motorcycle Mama, Dwezil Zappa – Having A Bad Day, The Mothers of Invention Freak Out, and the collection -World’s Worst Records [this includes and official “World’s Worst Records Barf bag].

Trying to create a catalog of what I own, and get ready to purge my collection of anything I no longer want, or duplicates, etc. This will be a VERY long term process. But I’ll keep you posted with how it goes.

shit, I’ve got almost 1000 records!