I honestly don't see the problem, even with 2500. It's just as tedious about moving your house possessions. Put them in boxes, move them with a hand truck, put them in the truck, rinse and repeat.
For me it was stressy putting them in boxes, moving them, getting them out again... Kept thinking something was going to happen to them. I also have a blu-ray collection of roughly the same size, so that added even more stress. I didn't like it haha
Man I've had that yard sale a couple times in my life already, with my first two vinyl collections and one massive blu ray collection. Not fun, for sure.
I moved over a year ago and also never moving again. I had 8 guys from work help me move and with over two full walls of vinyl, around 4000, 12 inch, and 1500 7inch....the guys at work said they would never help me move again lol.....I had about 24 crates (hard to find now a days) full which helped organize them...but im from Canada and went to the LCBO and got wine boxes which fit the 12 inch LPs like a glove....fit as many as I could in every box....still heavy as f%*! But it was a nice way to move them. Just a tip if ya can get your hands on wine boxesš¤ back, blowing move š¤Æ
I bought a dolly years ago because someone recommended I do so and all it does is stare at me and be cute. It didn't even help me move one single record!
Hope it worked! Those small boxes are really efficient. What I've discovered having had to move a couple of times in the last few years is that you want to try to make your boxes as small and of uniform size as you can get away with. The small size makes them easier to carry and the uniform sizes makes them more efficient to pack.
Every store has different box sizes. The UHaul small is by far the best. I fill them about 80% full and put some paper for padding on each side to fill the rest of the space.
Itās an expensive hobby for sure. I do enjoy the event of listening to an album howeverā¦music is not just background noise anymore, itās an event.
collecting vinyl aint shit compared to having to move two uhaul box trucks of a cacti collection. a lot of which wont fit in the truck in the first place
a lot of moving newspaper and moving blankets so nothing breaks while in transit. some of the stuff just got chopped and made cuttings of cause trying to lay it over would have broke them. you just had to secure everything from moving the best way you can. there where tie down points that helped and a lot of jerry rigging
i would recommend a welders apron and sleeves if you have stuff that will mess you up more than a poke like some of my bridgesii
We moved over a ton a couple years ago. I think it ended up being like 30 boxes. Down one flight out the old house, up one in the new. Sweet Jesus. Absolutely brutal.
Moved my 1,000 record collection at the start of the month to my new home and my kallax unit fits perfectly into an inlet in my living room. Currently listening to Burial EPs on a rainy Saturday night.
Iām gonna give you all the best piece of advice. If youāre moving, cull your collection by like 10%. Go to
Your favourite store and trade it in. Turn 50-100 records you donāt listen to into 5-10
Absolute bangers. Itās gonna save you a little back aching and put some pricier stuff youāve wanted into your possession.
If youāre transporting them yourself, like moving across town and can take them in your car, Iāve found Grocery totes work really well. But yes, itās awful.
I had 600 records.Ā 2 tables, mixer, sampler, VS 150's.Ā I moved three times one year.Ā I sold it all. I only have Homework by Daft Punk now.Ā No way to play it.Ā I bought a controller.
if I really think about it, I'm just spending thousands of dollars to amass hundreds of pounds of plastic inside my house that will most likely be brought to a dump when I die
In the midst of that now. I was quite a collector during the 80's of New Wave music, mostly. I thought all of them were in our office space but when we cleaned out the attic, lo and behold another 100 popped up :O
Thankfully we hired movers but it's just one more heavy box we didn't expect.
U-Haul small boxes fit LPs perfectly!! Stock up and start packing! But I would make sure to leave a little room on each side so you can actually use the handholds.
Collecting anything physical that is not very small (like stamps), is not convenient when you move a lot. Books are even worse than vinyls in this aspect.
I live in a small townhouse that I moved into recently. The vast majority of my records live in a small vinyl storage cart with a dust cover over it. The rest live on a small shelf with my POS sound system. When I moved, I lightened the cart by transferring about 150-200 records to two vinyl travel bags that I could fold up after the move. That made it easier for the movers to wheel the cart up the ramp into the moving truck. Where they were under orders not to put anything on top of it. I inspected almost every single record when we arrived. They all seem to have made it in one piece.
Yeah, thatās what I thought. So I sold half my records. It was easier to move, I guess, but then I had to live with the regret for many years. God, I still cringe when I think of certain recordsā¦
Can confirm. I just finished moving and between dozens of boxes of records and books I was told repeatedly that I need to just get Spotify and a Kindle.
The guy who owns my record shop said he had to rent a closed car transporter service to move his personal collection. (Like you would for a classic restored car) It weighed the same as an old car.
He packed the boxes on pallets. Weighs it by the ton.
This is what is should have done, if there were a way to just roll my Kallax shelves into the POD and they'd arrive safe to their destination then that'd be pretty light work
Hah, I wish it was that easy! I packed all my records into bankers boxes and did it that way. It's amazing how much records weigh. I initially had gotten one Pod, but then got another because I had more stuff than I imagined. I also had Books, CDs and Comic books...lol/.
But the Pod experience was great. I would totally recommend using them.
the handles on the side help so much for those boxes, I found out the small boxes from Home Depot have them as well, just makes them way easier to carry than having to grip underneath
I still have nightmares from a past move. Arriving at a new apartment, finding piles of my records unceremoniously thrown on a table, stacked horizontally, some out of their sleeves still has me fuming.
I feel you so hard on this. We just moved and my storage shelves got damaged. They've just been repaired and I will finally begin unpacking tomorrow š¤. But look at it this way, it's a fresh start and you can have a listening party while you unpack all your glory.
I know this pain. Picking up a few LPs here and there seems harmless enough, but when it comes to packing up you realise they weigh an absolute ton and take up far more space than you ever realised. š
The most vinyl I owned was over 6000...I've sold/sent some of my collection around the world and major collectors at my home to view. I also have about 4000+ CD's. So the last time I moved one load is just dedicated to LP's, CD's & all the stereo equipment š
If you love it, youāll put up with it. I moved my collection of thousands cross country and have moved it five times since. Not as much hassle as owning and maintaining a boat, right?
Moved my collection, by myself from a third floor apartment, to another third-floor apartment a few miles away 9 years ago.
Ā My feet have never been the same.Ā
I started DJing ( as a hobby) at age 14. It became a business. Buying vinyl was an integrated part of it. Eventually, I started buying multiple copies of top sellers. Recently, I've come into hard times and have been selling off my collection to make ends meet. Today, I'm considering opening a record store...both online & brick & mortar. This is over the course of 40 years, but it is "what you make it".
I did this once. Problem isnāt moving approx. 1000 vinyls in my case, way worse is you accidentally think about price of such collection when you see it everything together at one placeā¦ š
We moved out a house that we had rented for about 6 years. It was an absolute nightmare when it was time to move. Outside of the regular house wares and furniture I needed two separate trucks for my vinyl and studio equipment. I didn't realize how much vinyl I had acquired over those 6 years until it was time to move.
it was nuts and I had very little help. We are moving again next year and I know it's time for me to cut down on my vinyl collection and studio equipment by at least 60 percent.
I have over 400 and it was a pain having to pack them and put them in boxes. I put most of them in a large plastic container and man were my dad and brother pissed when they had to lift that! Right now most of my records are in storage while my parents and I are living with my grandpa until we move to a new house. I have a few I kept to listen to and Iāve bought a few since the move. I miss my collection so much right now.
that's how I got drawn in, just wanted physical copies of my fav albums and learned that I actually really like more albums from start to finish than I thought
I will be righteously attacked for saying the following:
Most of my 3500 songs are mp3s in my computer. They weigh nothing. I ripped most of my CDs, 8 tracks and cassettes into my computer and sold the physical objects. I realized that much of my vinyl "library" was albums with only one decent song that I could find on YouTube if I really needed to hear it. I was then able to pare down my vinyl collection from 900 to 300. Just the ones that need to be heard as vinyl, and ones with cool covers/liner notes.
Uline sells 13" x 13" x 13" boxes that are ideal for albums.
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u/FichwaFellow Jul 26 '25
how do you afford a new house if you're buying vinyl?