Another day spent hacking away at the mess

I will publish photos as soon as I can. I have had moderate success with the DVD shelves but I can't let everything take this long.

I spent untold hours today looking up DVD's online and organizing our Amazon wishlists. This was really a complete waste and could have waited until later since I have company arriving who will probably inhabit my basement within 2 weeks of today.

I also began viewing a pile of about 25 videos that don't have anything important on them "just to be on the safe side" since I have chosen to ignore their labels and make sure that what is on them is really there. My husband is notorious for not updating labels on things so I suspect that this is where my suspicion came from.

I also have a pile of about 40 more DVD's neatly labeled with movie titles that I have already looked up to replace that I have to check for unlabeled movies. Who cares? I have lived without these "things" for years, bereft of the pleasure of viewing them and at the last minute before they hit the trash can I need the comfort of knowing exactly what I am throwing away. Part of it is the fear of throwing away a home movie or something important like that. Sigh.

I have a shelf full of videos that need to be transferred to DVD. I gave Kenny this job although he told me that he does not agree with it. We'll see if it ever gets done. I will push him on it this week.

Do I have the courage to just dump this whole lot of videotapes without viewing them? Is it courage or cowardice that knows how boring the whole process will be and that I can't just get it done quickly. I am not good at "sticktoitiveness" I'm afraid.

Ah, yes, and I also began boxing up and sorting for sale about 160 videos for ebay in groups. I have high hopes of making $160 for the purchase of further DVD's to replace some of those that are going away.

So I still have quite a bit to do:

1. Go through old videos and toss. (20-30 hours)
2. Sort DVD lists on Amazon. (5 hours)
3. List all videos for sale on Ebay. (8 hours)
4. tranfer videos to DVD. (20-30 hours)

I also have to find all the tiny movie tapes, 8mm and mini-DV? and prep them also for transfer which I might have done professionally, including our wedding video. So maybe the videos will be completed by the end of the week with any luck. Sigh. I could probably safely toss the tapes, sort lists later, transfer videos later and just get all the stuff onto ebay where I can be earning a little pin money. I think I'll focus my energies on ebay first and then move on with this project.

All this from one shelf of videos and DVD's. I don't look forward to the CD, audiotape, LP sorting that is inevitable as that will take MUCH longer as it is so much bigger a mess.

But the shelves are looking much, much better. It is really amazing. I brought down the basket of DVD's for schoolwork and placed them on the shelf. And I took an old train case that I had given the girls for Barbies and they were now using for kitchen play pots and put it up top to hold the home movie mini tapes until they are transferred.

But on second thought I like the fact that I am trying to finish a project to the nth degree before moving on quickly. I don't care to have scads of to do lists in my wake. I want to do it, finish up and move on. Is that criminal?