I had about a couple hundred VHS movies for children. I gave away a hundred Disney VHS videos and similar films to a friend whose grandchildren were visiting for the summer. They were all delighted. I had about fifty of the wonderful Rabbit Ears story videos for children. I sold them in one big box on eBay for $50. (After fees, I made $30 on that.) I had several hundred videos recorded off the tv twenty to thirty years ago at the six hour rate. So grainy! I threw away all of those. All the videos for grown-ups that I had purchased (several hundred more), I took to the university where I taught and let students have them for free. I switched to DVDs fifteen years ago, and I hadn’t watched VHS video in ten years. Last fall I gave away a couple hundred DVDs that I didn’t think I’d ever watch again.
I also had several hundred books on CD, all in the expensive library binding (I bought them on sale for $6 each, unused.) I enjoyed them, then put them up for sale on Amazon for $6 to $8 each, which means I made about $3 per sale. But I only sold on average one per month. I tried to give them all to my local library, but the librarian said he would take them, but only to sell at the annual book sale. I advertised the final 150 of them on Craig’s List and sold them all for $100 to a guy who is on the road a lot and likes to listen to books on CD (as do I). Now they are all gone.
Now I have several thousand hours of recorded books on my iPad, computer, iPhone, iPod. Next step: listening to them. I have several hundred movie DVDs, many of them BlueRay DVDs with high definition. Will I ever watch them? I don’t know.
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