I guess all of us do interesting little things that others may find peculiar or unusual. Just out of habit, or perhaps from some long past experience that we continued with. Nothing obscene or bizarre. Just those little quirky practices we all have fallen into.
The other day, I did what I do every year around this time. I picked up two new 'albums' for the coming Christmas holidays. Not vinyl albums from the old days, just CDs (yes, even that's somewhat antiquated these days with downloadable everything). We have a pretty big collection of mid-Century Christmas music (mainly because I got sick of hearing the same 20 bad ones ad nauseum on the radio stations starting about 35 years ago). It's just one of those little indulgences. So I keep on doing it, year after year.
Buying some Christmas music every year is not so peculiar. And I know many of us do remember the days of the LP, when many of us would slit open the plastic wrapping, and keep it on the cardboard record sleeves as sort of a slipcover, like a relative keeps slipcovers on the furniture. And there they remain for decades, some with the price tag on the plastic wrapper from long extinct department and music stores. A $3.95 album bought at Two Guys in 197.. whatever. Music archeology for the kids and grandkids someday.
But perhaps from those days of vinyl LPs, I have tended to do the same thing with my CDs. I keep the wrappers the CDs come in, and slip them back on after making my personal use copy (or backup, which the RIAA allows last I checked), before putting it in the CD storage cabinet, forever, as proof I bought it. And that's peculiar.
And let me tell you, putting those little cellophane wrappers back on the jewel cases is no easy feat. They are not designed for it, and easily rip. But over the years, I have developed little tricks to do it quickly. All the while thinking, "why the hell am I doing this?" But opening the CD drawer to put in this year's holiday acquisitions, I stare at hundreds of other CDs, all wrapped as if they were never opened. Some still have little stickers on them touting some long forgotten feature of whatever the CD is. Peculiar.
Yet I keep on doing it, even as I can't really see well enough to read the back of the cases anymore. And I just did it again last night with those two Christmas CDs. Wondering like I do every time, "Why am I doing this?" Peculiar.
At least they don't still put those messy, impossible to remove stickers across the tops of the cases anymore. I always wondered why, when the things are wrapped in sealed cellophane already. Thank goodness I never started trying to put those little stickers back on.
I guess we all have those little peculiar things we do. That one is mine. Maybe when I am gone they will fetch a little more on eBay.
The other day, I did what I do every year around this time. I picked up two new 'albums' for the coming Christmas holidays. Not vinyl albums from the old days, just CDs (yes, even that's somewhat antiquated these days with downloadable everything). We have a pretty big collection of mid-Century Christmas music (mainly because I got sick of hearing the same 20 bad ones ad nauseum on the radio stations starting about 35 years ago). It's just one of those little indulgences. So I keep on doing it, year after year.
Buying some Christmas music every year is not so peculiar. And I know many of us do remember the days of the LP, when many of us would slit open the plastic wrapping, and keep it on the cardboard record sleeves as sort of a slipcover, like a relative keeps slipcovers on the furniture. And there they remain for decades, some with the price tag on the plastic wrapper from long extinct department and music stores. A $3.95 album bought at Two Guys in 197.. whatever. Music archeology for the kids and grandkids someday.
But perhaps from those days of vinyl LPs, I have tended to do the same thing with my CDs. I keep the wrappers the CDs come in, and slip them back on after making my personal use copy (or backup, which the RIAA allows last I checked), before putting it in the CD storage cabinet, forever, as proof I bought it. And that's peculiar.
And let me tell you, putting those little cellophane wrappers back on the jewel cases is no easy feat. They are not designed for it, and easily rip. But over the years, I have developed little tricks to do it quickly. All the while thinking, "why the hell am I doing this?" But opening the CD drawer to put in this year's holiday acquisitions, I stare at hundreds of other CDs, all wrapped as if they were never opened. Some still have little stickers on them touting some long forgotten feature of whatever the CD is. Peculiar.
Yet I keep on doing it, even as I can't really see well enough to read the back of the cases anymore. And I just did it again last night with those two Christmas CDs. Wondering like I do every time, "Why am I doing this?" Peculiar.
At least they don't still put those messy, impossible to remove stickers across the tops of the cases anymore. I always wondered why, when the things are wrapped in sealed cellophane already. Thank goodness I never started trying to put those little stickers back on.
I guess we all have those little peculiar things we do. That one is mine. Maybe when I am gone they will fetch a little more on eBay.
