State of the Mess: day 7

[wednesday_10_00]

I managed to get the living room straightened up last night, so today I'll take a break and then get to work on the mess in my bedroom tomorrow. This week has been really long and tiring, ugh. (OK, the living room still has a pile of boxes--because I'll need some of them for packing up books--and my sorted VHS tapes, but it's all out of the way and organized, and it's not like I burned a hole in the carpet or something, so I'm sure my parents won't mind.)

I brought some (shounen and shoujo) manga to work to put on the "free books" shelf that we have out in the hall. When I was sorting through my (BL) magazines, I found two duplicates (why??), so I brought those into work to throw into the recycling with a bunch of other papers. Some really thoughtful recycling worker pulled them out and put them on the free shelf yesterday, so this morning I noticed and threw them back in the recycling. Jeez, everybody I work with knows those books are mine, let's not mix the porn in, OK?

Now at least I know it's NOT safe to bring to work the BL manga I'm planning on getting rid of. I wish our recycling center in town would take paper, but they only accept newspaper and phone books, so I have to find someplace else to dump my books. Recycling porn is complicated.

A few years ago, I wrote this post about cats that reminded me of an old Bronze poster. I found that poster last night:



...and now that I've preserved that for posterity, I've thrown out the poster. Because I really, really do not like that series. I wish I could go back in time and tell my 20-year-old self to not bother with it, because those characters will NEVER be happy; in fact they'll just get more depressing and angsty as time goes on.

Speaking of stuff I read when I was 20, I found my original editions of Fake in a box, so they're now sitting on my floor while I decide whether to keep them or not. I'm getting rid of other duplicate manga editions, but with these I feel a special sort of nostalgia, like with my Fushigi Yuugi fansubs. It took me a whole summer to find these books, how can I throw them in the trash??

Comments

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

My motivation is that if I don't do this before December, I won't have any place to put my two suitcases full of manga. It's a pretty compelling reason, for me.

What the hell do you do with books like that?

I honestly don't know what to do with 90% of this anymore, other than put it in the recycling. It's sad, but I've made my peace with it.

I should weed through my CDs, too.

I've planned for a long time to rip a lot of my CDs to my computer and get rid of the physical copies, but never did because I didn't have the hard drive space. Now that I do, maybe that should be my next organizational project.

Maybe you can give the old Fake books away to a good home?

I decided to keep Fake, at least for now. And also my bunko version of Koori. Because reasons. (Actually, putting the bunko version of Koori on my shelf and the originals in my closet saves me some shelf space. Why didn't I think of that before?)

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I've planned for a long time to rip a lot of my CDs to my computer and get rid of the physical copies

I wish I could share your faith that digital media can't/won't be lost. I've only made my peace with getting rid of tape because it's constantly degrading (and I hold my breath while I rewind a tape in my machines, fearing it will be shredded before the converting is complete).

my bunko version of Koori.

My eternal question: did the bunko version contain any bonus material? I'm assuming not, or you wouldn't have considered getting rid of it.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Well, I won't be getting rid of all my CDs. I would be most inclined to get rid of American music that's easily replaced via iTunes, or old bootleg anime CDs, which I don't feel I really own anyway.

Still, I feel pretty secure in having stuff on my computer + backed up on an external drive. Something could happen to it, yes, but something could happen to the original CD, too. (I remember having to download the ending song to Orphen a few years ago because the CD was scratched up and I had never ripped it to my computer.)

I'm assuming not, or you wouldn't have considered getting rid of it.

Exactly right. In fact, the bunko version doesn't include any of the author's notes from the original editions, so if a person didn't own the series and was looking to buy it, I would recommend they go out of their way to track down used copies of the originals. I only got the bunko version because I was living in Japan and sad to be separated from the series.

[chibkyo.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know what to do with 90% of this anymore, other than put it in the recycling. It's sad, but I've made my peace with it.

But-but-but...Heero reindeer. *sadface* Maybe the university library will take them.

rip a lot of my CDs to my computer and get rid of the physical copies

I prefer having the CDs (not enough companies sell lossless music files), but that Man...Or Astroman? disc that I bought on a whim and didn't even realize I still had? Yeah, you're a prime candidate for sellin'.

Because reasons.

Seems legit.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

But-but-but...Heero reindeer. *sadface*

Well, if it makes me sad to think about, I don't get rid of it.

Maybe the university library will take them.

The idea of the MSU library having a catalog of Gundam Wing doujinshi just makes me laugh and laugh.