Clean out your tunes.
Whether you grew up with an iPod, CDs, cassette tapes, records or 8-tracks, music and how it’s played has changed a lot over the years. Do you know the positive part about the changing? Each time, music has taken up less room and been easier to organize in your home.
When transferring music onto your iPod or mp3 player, you should only keep what you still enjoy to listen to. If you clog your iPod with all your music, the battery will die faster, and you’ll be switching through your music more often to get to a song you like. The great part about digital music players is you can switch out the music on them as often as you like.
Once you have all your music transferred onto your computer (or however you electronically store it,) store all other forms of music in your storage unit. Make sure to box these appropriately so you don’t damage them. You should also label the boxes containing your music, and if you have a lot of them, box similar music together so you know where to find it when looking.
Of course there’s always the music you aren’t going to listen to anymore. For that music, just get rid of it. If your youngest child is 18, chances are none of your kids will be listening to The Best of Barney any time soon. The same goes for any forms of music that you no longer have a player for. If you have box full of cassette tapes but no cassette player, that’s just a waste of your storage space.
None of us can guess what’s next for music. Ten years from now, we could snap our fingers and music will be played straight from our pillows before bed. What we can be sure of is we don’t have to keep our homes cluttered with the music forms through the years.
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