Today was a day that goes in my calendar. It was the day where I took my collection of DVDs and placed them in boxes. Not moved to the garage just yet, but I have that nagging suspicion I’m going to be needing less and less access to these discs. I remember the day about a decade ago when I did the same thing with my CDs. I had taken a week or two and transferred my entire music collection to a hard disk. I uncabled my CD-player, inserted my iPod, and moved cartons of CDs to the attic. How long before I dump them? Let’s see: I left college 25 years ago with my cassette tape collection, mostly labeled, and a small stack of vinyl. I never used the record player again, really, but I needed a cassette player in my car until my last car a few years ago. I took those dusty cassettes to the dump around the time I boxed the CDs. VHS tapes are already in the garage, and I’m starting to toss those as the DVDs move in.
I still watch DVDs, of course. But my motivation to buy is beginning to wane. That urge to own is ameliorated with the supple balm of Instant Access to almost anything, and 48 hour access to everything else. NETFLIX!! I’m enjoying the simplicity in my home that includes no shelves of records, no racks of cassettes, no boxes of CDs, and now no stack of DVDs. Sigh. Books really can’t be all that far behind, can they?
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