what to do with old cassette tapes (other than landfill!)?

[Townleygreen]

the subject says it all. Is there anything one can do?

Apart from landfill or similar?

[steveo]

Type 'cassette art' into Google

[Townleygreen]

good idea

[jctg]

Pre-recorded or blank?

[Jeremy]

If you still have a tape deck, record some of your favourite songs onto cassette. Then open up the cassette and reverse the tape. Play it, and see if you hear the voice of satan.

[Loz]

Take out the tape, cut into 1m lengths and - hey, presto - you have some grey tinsel to decorate your Christmas tree, suitably countering all that jolly red, green and yellow stuff.

[DulwichFox]

I have a very handy attractive imitation leather (plastic) cassette carrying case (Holds 16 Cassettes)

With carrying handle.. :)

If anyone is interested...

Foxy.

[maxxi]

Peel off all labels and remove any sleeve info then give to any excitable young person as novelty Xmas gift and watch as they try and work out wtf it is.

[maxxi]

Even this old gag is out of date now though................

[Jah Lush]

Mine ended up in a skip. About 800 of 'em. Some I wish I'd kept but the tape deck was broken so that ended up in the skip too.

[LadyNorwood]

I recently found an old C60 tape in the back a drawer, still had a cassette player luckily as the tape was of my parents' (long, long deceased) voices just chatting about nothing - that's one I'll keep... I also found Now That's What I Call Music One - double cassette - presumably from when I was a proud(?), if broke and confused, member of Britannia Music...

[sheilarose]

http://redesignreport.com/upcycle-this-cassette-tapes/

[Townleygreen]

I'm glad I started this!

[intexasatthe moment]

Many elderly people ( talking late 80's ,90's ,not your 70 year olds ) find cassettes an easier/more familar format to use than CDs .They appreciate recorded fiction and classic songs ,music etc .

But I'm not sure how you'd locate them ...sorry ,not very helpful !

[Lowlander]

I still have a tape deck in the car and a box of tapes in the boot. Select one at random and hey presto, a free "IPod" shuffle...

[Otta]

A friend of mine has the facility to digitalise the contents of cassettes. Was very useful for me when I found a demo from my first ever band, and a recording of a school concert.

[se22cat]

A few years ago, the Music Exchange in Notting Hill still bought pre-recorded tapes. The medium is alive and well for many indie bands; I really enjoyed this short on them:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22533522

And this is a fab piece you can sling into your deck's spare 5.25 bay [unless you have a bleeding-edge case which are designed without them]

http://uedata.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ICAGC

[east-of-the-Rye]

Try offering them to charity shops - my elderly mother, whose eyesight is getting worse, likes listening to tapes, particularly book readings / story tapes (which may not be what the main posting is about!) She is luckily able to buy them on line from charity shops and commented that the supply seems to be drying up.

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I have a very handy attractive imitation leather

> (plastic) cassette carrying case (Holds 16

> Cassettes)

>

That's be faux leather, Foxy.

Much better than the real stuff :))

[DulwichFox]

Sue Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > I have a very handy attractive imitation

> leather

> > (plastic) cassette carrying case (Holds 16

> > Cassettes)

> >

>

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> That's be faux leather, Foxy.

>

> Much better than the real stuff :))

That's ok..As long as it's Faux and not Fox.. :)