Congratulations on a beautiful console! Cleaned up, repaired, oiled, etc... even your wife should appreciate that one. It's very nice looking!
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Originally Posted by RetroHacker
Matt, Matt, Matt... You're going about this all wrong. You're not supposed to come out and _say_ you brought home another TV set. Never say "Look what I just bought". Here's what you do:
Keep your collection in a semi-orderly yet poorly space-utilized fashion. It's also a good idea to have a couple of "spacers" in the form of junk sets or junk cabinets.
"Organize" once and a while, moving things around. Possibly make the collection take up more space by poorly storing things.
When you get a new set, "organize" things, and shuffle the new set underheath and behind existing ones. Stack things in better, so it looks like there is less stuff.
A month later "organize" again. Throw away one of your "spacers". If you don't have spacers, drive around on garbage day and pick some up.
When the new TV comes to the front, and you get asked "Is that new?", you can proudly reply. "No, I've had it for months. See, I've been cleaning - I threw away two sets!"
And _that_ is how you collect televisions.
-Ian
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This is hilarious! I thought it was only we "audio" guys who did all this creative "re-organizing" to hide new acquisitions. Guess TV people are just the same!
Atually, I would be more of a TV person, too, if I didn't live in a modest apartment in Hong Kong. Love the old CRT beasts, too, but even creative re-organizing cannot hide a console in a place like this. An amp, yes, sometimes even a pair of speakers, but a big old floorstander? Just no way...
Besides, just don't see them around here. Occasional odd portables and a few Phillips Discoverers and such, but nothing like what is shown in this thread.
The problem with this strategy, of course, is that it only works for a couple of years. At some point, every place that had a "spacer" has been filled with something good, and all the stuff is packed in cheek-by-jowl with no more "give" in the spacing. At that point, she starts to notice how, even though you keep "cleaning up" the area and "getting rid of" stuff, the total volume just keeps growing. She can't recognize WHAT is new, but just knows something has to be.
By that point, if you are lucky, you start to burn out on the obsession, and are willing to actually pare back the collection and keep less, getting rid of the earlier acquisitions and only hanging onto what is really "special" to you. I'm finally at about that point.