moonbeams Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 If you anticipated a move overseas for several years and then back again, which of the following would you do? Let's say you have 400 LPs. a. ask a friend to store your collection and set-up for several years (and maybe take your favorite records with you). b. Ship it all with you. c. convert to digital. no more wasting money on collecting and enjoy all your music in your pocket. but good-bye sweet sound of vinyl d. other: _________________________________________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactusbot Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I wouldn't move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonbeams Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 I appreciate the response, but imagined that you had to and your spouse has their heart set on the move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactusbot Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Sell all my records and resent them for the rest of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daysaves Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I'd sell off or have a friend hold onto any records that you're not really attached to and take everything else with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goombagod Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Sell all the ones you can live without. keep the Gems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rm Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Depends... Who will actually be moving them? What are they going to be moved in? Boxes? Crates? Steel heavily padded box? How much do you care about the cover condition? How long away? Do you have some that you don't care about? If so what are they? Is this the only thing you are leaving behind? I put them in storage for My one year move. But three, I probably would have taken everything with me. Like I said. It just depends, but I would at least store them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unwound Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Where are you going? I'd look into a reasonably-priced storage unit and set up a contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonbeams Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 It might be a 2 to 5 year move. I love my record collection, but I love my wife more, and find it immature to let my hobby stand in the way of our future. But damn, I don't want to impose my collection on anyone, shipping it around is costly (and maybe a distraction), but nothing sounds as good as vinyl. I miss it with every mp3 on the ipod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniegwilliams Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 If you're already moving all of your things overseas, it would not be unreasonable, nor that insanely expensive to add your record collection along with the microwave and sofa. If you love your wife enough to pack up and leave everything (which is honestly pretty amazing), she will understand how much you love your collection and will understand the expense of taking it along with you. 2-5 years is a long time; if you sell your collection off I guarantee you will regret it; maybe not now, but in time. Spend the money and take it along with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 personally i'd rent a storage locker, or find a friend with a large basement.. altho seeing as it says you live in japan that might not be as easy as it would for some of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefwahoo Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 b. Ship it all with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 b. If you are moving just ship it all together, pay for the cargo crate from pt. A to pt. B they are about $7k for moving all your possessions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xadamhudsonx Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 b. Ship it all with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonbeams Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 If you're already moving all of your things overseas, it would not be unreasonable, nor that insanely expensive to add your record collection along with the microwave and sofa. If you love your wife enough to pack up and leave everything (which is honestly pretty amazing), she will understand how much you love your collection and will understand the expense of taking it along with you. 2-5 years is a long time; if you sell your collection off I guarantee you will regret it; maybe not now, but in time. Spend the money and take it along with you. First off, I really appreciate everyone's responses. We're not taking any furniture. It's more affordable to sell IKEA stuff and rebuy then to move it around. Thinks I would need shipped are my computer, minus ion machine, clothing. I'm going to study, so I feel that I could be best not to have records. But I recently sold a chunk of my collection (variants) and I can't say that I don't miss them. I've also rebought quite a few. But the freedom of having no records is so enticing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rm Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Well you could probably list them on here and free yourself pretty easily if it's quality stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightyseancore Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 you can pack up all your crap into one of them big metal storage things that will go on a boat, and get to your new place. probably won't be cheap, but it's possible. and worth it, to have all your stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankerdesk Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Thin the collection out. 400 LPs could easily become 280 which would easily fit in a 2x2 expedit. Also where's your turntable in all of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethingvinyl Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I've said it before, I'm not selling my records for anything. I'll eventually get rid of them as I see fit. If my girl asked me to get rid of them, I wouldn't. I guess there's one exception: if my son was sick and needed surgery and we could only get money from things like records... You don't have any parents or relatives near by where you could store things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebistro Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I would give them all to me. For free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seafoamgreen Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Sell everything. You'll be surprised how little you miss having all that "stuff." If you do miss it, rebuy the important stuff when you're settled down- my guess is that you'll miss none of it more than you'd miss the money you spent storing it. Yes, it's a hassle to sell and pack and ship and all that, but you'll make money to facilitate the move. Once you're over there and immersed, you won't miss them like you did when you were here. They're just things. Simplify. This is from a guy who has sold off almost half of his collection (mostly on eBay), including some of the first and most "personally significant" records I ever bought, over the past couple of years. I don't miss any of it and I'll use the money to fund new experiences that I'll never forget. Sounds like that's kinda what you're doing anyway so go whole hog. Just my opinion, of course, and I don't know you or how important your things are to you. But from personal experience, that's my stance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withengineheart Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pay the minimal fee for extra suitcases and load 'em up. I've had to do that a few times after heading home to the states and back. Pretty sure it's like 50 bucks for the first suitcase, then maybe a hundred. Just have to watch out for weight and package them nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withengineheart Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 This past trip I had about 35 LPs and over a 100 singles in my carry on. Size is the only restriction there- not weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyljunkiedistro Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 i am doing this at the end of the year. Moving out of country. I am selling every single record i own. along with pretty much every single other item that i own. some of the records are some of the more important material possessions i own at this point. but part of the reason for the move is to change that. Pretty much every record can be re-found down the road anyway if you did decide to come back and get back into "the hobby" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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