Documenting Our Collections - Thoughts? Ideas? Comments? - Collecting Tiki

K Kaiwaza Tiki Socialite Waikiki Beach, Hawaii Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Posts: 560	K Kaiwaza Posted posted on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 3:43 PM There's so much that could be said on this subject...in various directions. I'll try to keep my thoughts brief. For me, I'd always wondered what would happen or how to document my rather large Hawaiian/Exotica vinyl LP collection. It's something I've been amassing since age five, literally. I'm 52 now. One man's trash is another's treasure. There are people who collect everything and 90% of it all really only has sentimental value to the collector him/herself. Even to family & friends it means little. They may save a few items as a momento. I once offered my 2,300 LPs to the Center For Hawaiian Studies at U.H. and was turned down for 'lack of space" and because someone would need to catalog it. (Seemed like that would be a great library studies project to me). After that, I started telling my family, you know, do one of two things. Best of all would be to find some young person interested in the old music, both authentic & inauthenic, and GIVE them the entire collection absolutely free. Otherwise, sell them if you want to, or just haul them to Goodwill (I like to imagine the heart attack some Hawaiian collector would have walking in the store THAT day), or I'm ok if you want to throw them away. After all, it's been "my' thing, not theirs. Nothing last forever, and in the end, it's all just "stuff."

There's so much that could be said on this subject...in various directions. I'll try to keep my thoughts brief.
For me, I'd always wondered what would happen or how to document my rather large Hawaiian/Exotica vinyl LP collection. It's something I've been amassing since age five, literally. I'm 52 now.

One man's trash is another's treasure. There are people who collect everything and 90% of it all really only has sentimental value to the collector him/herself. Even to family & friends it means little. They may save a few items as a momento. I once offered my 2,300 LPs to the Center For Hawaiian Studies at U.H. and was turned down for 'lack of space" and because someone would need to catalog it. (Seemed like that would be a great library studies project to me).

After that, I started telling my family, you know, do one of two things. Best of all would be to find some young person interested in the old music, both authentic & inauthenic, and GIVE them the entire collection absolutely free. Otherwise, sell them if you want to, or just haul them to Goodwill (I like to imagine the heart attack some Hawaiian collector would have walking in the store THAT day), or I'm ok if you want to throw them away. After all, it's been "my' thing, not theirs.

Nothing last forever, and in the end, it's all just "stuff."

Post #714926 by Kaiwaza on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 3:43 PM