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I will say that I picked through my mom's old LP collection and sprang for a player so I could start listening to some of her classic albums. Now I periodically throw on some Springstein or Beetles because its right there and I can. I also picked up a few newer records - the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Father John Misty - and listen to them, too.
No idea what I'm going to do with my mom's grand piano. She keeps trying to off-load that on me and all I can tell her is "It literally will not fit in the house."
My dad was not into rock music at all. His collection was mostly film soundtracks, classical music and popular music from the 1930s and 1940s.
I like all of those things, but not enough to save the LPs or CDs. I can stream or download any of the ones I really want to listen to and enjoy it just as much, but not have it take up room in my not especially large house.
You have to understand, we're talking thousands of LPs and CDs and hundreds of DVDs. Some of them were worth something, but most of them were worth pennies. The month I paid more to eBay than I did make any profits, I gave up.
This is just one part of the CD collection when it was still in their house. There were multiple other shelves.
I can't find a picture of the LPs, but imagine a wall of them the size of 1.5 garage doors.
And this is just the music. This doesn't begin to go into all the other stuff.
On top of everything else, he eventually got a DVD duplicator and a CD duplicator and just got whatever he wanted from video stores and the library and copied them. We just threw those out.
By the way, stamp collections are barely worth it unless you have a super rare stamp. He had a huge collection of first-day covers he had been collecting for my whole life. It went for $400.
Oh yeah. You've got to weed out the good stuff from the bad. I took maybe 1-in-5 from my mom's far smaller collection of LPs.
The worst thing I ever did was buy my mom a printer. She would go through stacks of paper in a month, just printing out whatever she thought she wanted to remember on the internet and sticking it in filling cabinets. I refused to show her how to change out the toner at one point, and that's largely staunched the flow of dead trees.
Like all hobbies, you really need to find a community of other hobbyists before they're worth anything at all. Even a super-rare stamp has no value unless its got an actual buyer. And how many people even still care if you've got a Civil War double-stamped limited edition whateverthefuck anymore? Unless you're selling it straight to a museum, where are the buyers?
I do wonder whether I'll live to see people with these giant Magic: The Gathering card collections claiming value at six-figures plus when WotC has long since gone bust and nobody plays the game anymore.
My wife's cousin had a massive collection of Yu-Gi-Oh cards- we're talking like fill a suitcase massive- and they're basically worthless. He gave them all to our nephew about 10 years ago. He's 18 now so I have no idea what he'll do with them.