I’ve never hated owning a large vinyl collection more than when I just moved house.

It’s easy to forget how heavy these things are…

We moved two blocks away so I decided to move 600 records via a suitcase… I really should have planned better.

Gramsci wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:33 pm We moved two blocks away so I decided to move 600 records via a suitcase… I really should have planned better.

So, either the largest suitcase known to man, or like 20 trips? Either way, that suitcase is probably going to fall apart soon.

Milk crates or bust.

jfv wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:58 pm

Gramsci wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:33 pm We moved two blocks away so I decided to move 600 records via a suitcase… I really should have planned better.

So, either the largest suitcase known to man, or like 20 trips? Either way, that suitcase is probably going to fall apart soon.

Milk crates or bust.

Twenty trips.

I wish I had of just asked here two weeks ago.

Gramsci wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:33 pm I’ve never hated owning a large vinyl collection more than when I just moved house.

It’s easy to forget how heavy these things are…

We moved two blocks away so I decided to move 600 records via a suitcase… I really should have planned better.

Next time you have to do this, wine boxes (upright bottle style) are pretty much the right height. I forget where you are but, in America many liquor stores hang onto wine boxes and will give them away.

The Uk doesn’t really have the same kind of crates like they have in New Zealand or the US. NZ has the ubiquitous Beer Crate …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crate_Day

Gramsci wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 6:52 am NZ has the ubiquitous Beer Crate …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crate_Day

Was doing calculations on how much beer that is in standard (US) 12 oz bottles, and I am a dumb fuck.

745 ml is 25.2 oz
25.2 oz multiplied by 12 beers is 302.4 oz
302.4 oz divided by 12 oz is 25.2 beers

I did not need to bother with the last two steps to figure out that's 25.2 beers.

That's a lot of fucking beer to drink between noon and midnight.

I was all ready to say "challenge accepted" but, no, that would be a horrible idea.