Will it ever end???

Today I worked on going through a box of cassette tapes from GAI's.

One box.  It took me all afternoon. 

I should have counted how many tapes there were, but I was so focused on wanting to get through the box that I didn't bother.  As was true with her extensive book library, GAI must have belonged to a record club . . . or two or three.  She had a lot of tapes that were from Reader's Digest and RCA.  I can only assume that she never bothered to return the order slip each month to say "no thank you, I do not want the selection for this month."  She probably just thought that no matter what type of music it was, she would listen to it and enjoy it.

There were a lot of classical selections and easy listening music from the 40's through the 70's.  Jim Nabors seemed to be a favorite.  I was surprised to discover a decent amount of country artists.  Most of the tapes were sets or "best of" compilations.  One set had five cassettes, but most of them only had two or three cassettes.  I was able to pair up almost every set and I managed to find a case for every tape -- no small feat, let me tell you!  And just as with the girdles (sigh) there were duplications.  GAI had three of the same two-cassette set of the 50 greatest church songs.  Three!

Monday G will take the large, heavy box of cassettes to the resale shop that our church operates.  (M worked there two summers ago.)  I hope that someone who loves classical music or Julio Iglesias or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir or Eddy Arnold will buy the tapes and enjoy them.  I will be happy to have them out of my house.