Who still uses milk crates to store their record collection?
Manduro3000
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Or did everyone pretty much graduated to ikea expedits? Are old school crates now obsolete?
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I use them as sale crates so as to keep chud organized and in order. Plus, you don't have to steal them from the back of a Safeway!
I use Expedit's for everything else that's filed.
I still use these, but been thinking its time to uprade. I just got use to having the abulity to be mobile.
most of my records are in (what we call here) "Twin Cities Dairy" crates, it was an old dairy company from the early 70's that went out of business and these crates are hard to find because they fit records prefectly in 20 years of collecting i have only came across 12 of these crates, the rest are in "Farmers Dairy" (the replacement of Twin Cities mid 80's) crates which suck because it has your albums on an angle...
The expedite is my favorite... but if I had to stick to something portable... Bags Unlimited LP Boxes.... or 8000 Platter-Paks
The bulk are in Expedit and Billy shelves though...and on the floor :(
I actually keep about half of my 45's in these.
This is my downfall. My plan to fix this is to have 4 open crates next my turntables that are neatly categorized for either new mix projects or new chud that I acquire. It's a constant battle keeping the floors around my turntables clear!
This means I can pull out whole crates at a time and flip through with ease.
LPs are stacked regular on the epedit.
Word, I have the same issue. Everytime I grab some new jawns I usually move whatever records are already sitting next to my decks downstairs into storage. Problem is, my buying habits are much quicker than my listening habits and most get shuffled downstairs and stumbled upon months later when I realized I didn't totally listen to them the whole way through.