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I also disposed of all my VHS tapes. That was a bit less controversial. I still have the VHS player as part of a combo with my DVD, but I made an all-out effort a little while back to see if I could still record something. Couldn't figure it out. So my pile of blank tapes is pointless. I assume I could play something if I set my mind to it, but it's awkward and the few VHS movies I had, I hadn't looked at in years anyway so - fuck it all.

That whole area looks startlingly clean right now.
 
This process has continued in a slow, methodical way.

Chucking the books was painful. Emotional. But they are all gone now (except for the Richard Brautigans which I decided to keep because he is one of my absolute favorites whom, if I ever do start reading again, I will want to reread all of his stuff - and a lot of it is out of print).

Now I have a 3 big empty bookshelves to chuck.



Still chucking.
 
After a bit of a hiatus, I believe the chucking process is finally complete. Last items were the old crappy little barbecue and crappy balcony chairs. (I built a nice new barbecue - which is more gigantic than I realized when I impulse-purchased it - but it's super deluxe.)

I have an incredible amount of space. And, as this was very much a chucking/cleaning combo effort, all that space is so much nicer.

I sometimes just stop and look at things in amazement. Like I'll open the cupboard under my bathroom sink - which was dark and full of mystery items and coated in a decade worth of who-knows-what-that-dirty-crap-is? Now there are just a few necessary items and it shines. It actually shines down there.

I just look at it sometimes.

I look in my closets.

I get a bottle of some new cleaner that needs to be stored and instead of thinking, "Okay where I am going to wedge that away?" it's like, "Okay where on my 328 feet of empty shelf space shall I place that?"



Still a bit more finishing up to do as far as the grand cleaning effort, but the chucking is done.

Nothing left to chuck.
 
Chucking the English ones too. I'll send you my annotated copy of Charles S. Peirce's Selected Writings. Guy's a hoot.

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I chucked a couple books on philosophy.



The one controversial item is my old keyboard. In terms of chucking criteria, it definitely fits. It won't be used again. I mean, if the super-deluxe replacement keyboard dies, the old Yamaha could be put in limited use for a day or so until I get a re-replacement, but that's about it.

It's a shame. I mean it doesn't sound a tenth as good as the new one to just sit and perform, but it is perfectly good as a midi keyboard to use through my software - which is all I do these days. It produces the exact same sound as the new one. Main problem is, it is so old, it doesn't have a plug-in port for a pedal. They didn't have them back then. I like to have pedal.

So that's that.

I don't know if it has a selling value. I think it cost like $150 forty years ago. What could it be worth now?

It sure would hurt to just chuck it though. It works just as good as it ever did. I'm not as attached to it as my guitar or piano but still - that would be a test.

It's just sitting at the moment.
 
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I chucked a couple books on philosophy.



The one controversial item is my old keyboard. In terms of chucking criteria, it definitely fits. It won't be used again. I mean, if the super-deluxe replacement keyboard dies, the old Yamaha could be put in limited use for a day or so until I get a re-replacement, but that's about it.

It's a shame. I mean it doesn't sound a tenth as good as the new one to just sit and perform, but it is perfectly good as a midi keyboard to use through my software - which is all I do these days. It produces the exact same sound as the new one. Main problem is, it is so old, it doesn't have a plug-in port for a pedal. They didn't have them back then. I like to have pedal.

So that's that.

I don't know if it has a selling value. I think it cost like $150 forty years ago. What could it be worth now?

It sure would hurt to just chuck it though. It works just as good as it ever did. I'm not as attached to it as my guitar or piano but still - that would be a test.

It's just sitting at the moment.
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