bye cassette tapes

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Philippines
March 6, 2018 5:14am CST
someone is decluttering here. i saw some old cassette tapes in the trash. nat king cole shirley bassey matt monro bing crosby the four aces our parents' music. i remember our old stereo system encased in wood. one more piece of furniture i had to dust.
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
We got empty cassette tapes and a radio that has tape recorder that no longer works.
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
they tend to eat it and it looks like spaghetti!
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
8 Mar 18
That is too bad LK.
@franxav (13849)
• India
6 Mar 18
Mine are dumped in a box!
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
it brought back memories but...
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@Icydoll (36717)
• India
6 Mar 18
@franxav same here
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
@Icydoll you still play or listen to them?
@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
7 Apr 18
I miss playing those cassette tapes .. I have a collection of them somewhere ... I must find them and see if they still work..
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• Philippines
7 Apr 18
i stumbled on a lot of old songs in youtube
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
8 Apr 18
@hereandthere Yes.. youtube is amazing .. I have found some songs there that are older than me ..
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@LadyDuck (472060)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 18
My husband bought a small device a few years ago and he transferred all our tapes to the hard disk of the computer.
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
how cool! that makes it easier to listen to them.
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@LadyDuck (472060)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 18
@hereandthere It is an inexpensive device and now all our old songs are stored inside our computer.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Mar 18
i still have my walkman and it is still functioning properly.
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• Philippines
7 Mar 18
it means you take good care of your belongings
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• Philippines
8 Mar 18
@ridingbet mother likes small transistor radios because she can listen to them when wakes up but don't feel like getting up yet.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Mar 18
@hereandthere i do. even the small stereo-transistor type given to me by my brother in 1988, i still have it in my room.
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@renicemae (4883)
• Philippines
6 Mar 18
It's good recalling the past gadgets we used sometimes. "Torn" is what I'll remember in Nat King Cole
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@much2say (56088)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Mar 18
My parents still have that old stereo system with wood . . . is it literally a big piece of furniture (almost like a coffin)? The stereo is actually still good, except for the record player part - but no one uses it and I don't know why my parents keep it around. It makes a good table at the side of their living room .
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• Philippines
7 Mar 18
i don't know what happened to ours, but yes, the stereo system was 3 pieces - one long piece in the middle that you lift the lid, and two speakers on each side.
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@much2say (56088)
• Los Angeles, California
7 Mar 18
@hereandthere My parents' stereo is just one big piece . . . the stereo on both sides and there was a lid in the middle to lift (like a coffin).
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
I have already discarded all my casette tapes because they already have molds. It's now CDs we play on our old component.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
9 Mar 18
@hereandthere And now too, the component seems obsolete too already.
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• Philippines
8 Mar 18
that's the word i forgot that we use in the philippines - component!
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• Calgary, Alberta
6 Mar 18
sell them to ebay for the collectors
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• Philippines
7 Mar 18
i guess they'd have to be in good quality for anyone to buy them.
@cherigucchi (14876)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
I still keep some of them but do not play them anymore.
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• Philippines
8 Mar 18
and the question would be, would they play, and if you have a working tape deck. i mean, it might be in good condition, but the tape deck would eat it! hahaha!
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@cherigucchi (14876)
• Philippines
9 Mar 18
@hereandthere Thats true. I tried it once and some of the tapes were destroyed.
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
6 Mar 18
Wow, those are some oldies but goodies.
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• Philippines
7 Mar 18
they were the ones we listened to, and i appreciate them.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
Oh that's sad. I still have my M2M cassette tapes but..
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• Philippines
8 Mar 18
i love those girls!
@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
7 Mar 18
I had also seen my father packed his collection of old cassette tapes a few days ago in a plastic bag. I am not sure what he's going to do with those...
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• Philippines
8 Mar 18
hi, arbie! nice to see you again. when was the last time he played them?
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
9 Mar 18
@hereandthere I can't remember anymore. I haven't seen him play it for the past 7 years.
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• United Kingdom
6 Mar 18
My ten year old daughter found a tape at my mum's house a couple of weeks ago and she didn't know what it was!
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
oh, my. that makes me feel so old!
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• United Kingdom
6 Mar 18
@hereandthere Me too! haha!
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@maezee (41988)
• United States
6 Mar 18
Wow. I havent seen a cassette tape in a while!
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• Philippines
7 Mar 18
that's what decluttering does - unearthing artifacts!
@DianneN (247184)
• United States
9 Mar 18
Those could be transferred to discs.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
7 Mar 18
Your post reminded to see if I still have those old cassette tapes in our storage area. Though I think of having it for future need (as memento), sometimes they have to go to declutter and have some space.
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@tzwrites (4835)
• Romania
7 Mar 18
In the future the tapes might be collectors items and go up in value, who knows.
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@Prdhan (587)
6 Mar 18
My old cassette player is no longer working.
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• Philippines
6 Mar 18
i'm not sure about ours, too.
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• Philippines
10 Mar 18
yeah... i remember we also have that cassette tapes playing in our karaoke.. but it was all gone... i think my parents put it out in the trash because there are cd's everywhere at that time..
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