Ok all, I've said in various posts, I love music. I have a HUGE music collection and if I listened to it straight, I could listen to it for a month without hearing the same thing twice! That is a lot of music.
Also, I've purchased a lot of music recently and I have enough to last me a very long time. So my challenge to myself is to not buy any more music for myself until my B-day, which is just a few days after Valentines day! Nothing from ebay, half.com, amazon or other online or offline stores.
Exceptions to this challenge:
1) If someone buys me a CD for xmas, I will accept it and use it
2) I have an itunes giftcard that I will use
3) If I get a giftcard for xmas (to amazon or bestbuy) I won't hoard it until Feb.
4) If DH and I are at a thrift store, garage sale or estate sale and find a *score* album we want, we can get it. We both enjoy scores and often listen to them while we are studying, reading and cleaning the house. I say this because two weeks ago we picked up 3 score CDs for $1.25 each at an estate sale and that is just too good a deal. BUT we won't go out of our way to pick up music.
Other (smaller) bits to the challenge:
1) Try and listen to everything I have (some things I favor more then others, like I'm positive I've listened to Pirates of the Caribbean score a 100 billion times, I can skip that one )
2) Finish uploading all my music (I've had several computers go belly up on me in the past 8 years, so even though I did have my music ripped, it then went *poof* and I haven't had a chance to rip it since then)
3) Organize my music on my computer and back it up (I'm picky when it comes to organization and itunes doesn't do it the way I like it done, and also back it up so it doesn't go *poof* again)
4) Back up my itunes purchases
5) Check out music from the library
6) "Borrow" music from my parents. I say "borrow" because I think some of my CDs have worked their way into my Mom's collection. So I need to add them to my library, because I "own" them, they are just at my parent's house.
I'm hoping not focusing on new music will help me rediscover what I already own and also finally get me to finish some of those projects I've been meaning to do, like organizing or backing up.
Join me with your own hobby or weakness! I'll post updates other then next 4ish months!
Also, I've purchased a lot of music recently and I have enough to last me a very long time. So my challenge to myself is to not buy any more music for myself until my B-day, which is just a few days after Valentines day! Nothing from ebay, half.com, amazon or other online or offline stores.
Exceptions to this challenge:
1) If someone buys me a CD for xmas, I will accept it and use it
2) I have an itunes giftcard that I will use
3) If I get a giftcard for xmas (to amazon or bestbuy) I won't hoard it until Feb.
4) If DH and I are at a thrift store, garage sale or estate sale and find a *score* album we want, we can get it. We both enjoy scores and often listen to them while we are studying, reading and cleaning the house. I say this because two weeks ago we picked up 3 score CDs for $1.25 each at an estate sale and that is just too good a deal. BUT we won't go out of our way to pick up music.
Other (smaller) bits to the challenge:
1) Try and listen to everything I have (some things I favor more then others, like I'm positive I've listened to Pirates of the Caribbean score a 100 billion times, I can skip that one )
2) Finish uploading all my music (I've had several computers go belly up on me in the past 8 years, so even though I did have my music ripped, it then went *poof* and I haven't had a chance to rip it since then)
3) Organize my music on my computer and back it up (I'm picky when it comes to organization and itunes doesn't do it the way I like it done, and also back it up so it doesn't go *poof* again)
4) Back up my itunes purchases
5) Check out music from the library
6) "Borrow" music from my parents. I say "borrow" because I think some of my CDs have worked their way into my Mom's collection. So I need to add them to my library, because I "own" them, they are just at my parent's house.
I'm hoping not focusing on new music will help me rediscover what I already own and also finally get me to finish some of those projects I've been meaning to do, like organizing or backing up.
Join me with your own hobby or weakness! I'll post updates other then next 4ish months!