Taking advantage of COVID to help my mum and gran clear out some of their stuff (not in the same house..) - amazing the stuff —crap— you end up gathering over time .
Both still have VHS tapes ... Mum has a handful of recordings of weddings (including one of neighbour’s wedding purely because I handed them a horseshoe at the end), quite a few family holidays etc . Several that were done by my primary school - they handed out a souvenir tape to all pupils when we left .
My gran is somewhat worse - she was a senior PE teacher and as such has about 40 cassettes recorded during lessons at various schools (eg to demonstrate how to teach netball or gymnastics) . Absolutely useless to anyone else now . Also has videos of cousins’ christenings, weddings and stuff off the telly ... still has a huge cardboard box of audio tapes as well (again - for teaching) so probably shouldn’t be too hopeful that she’ll bin the videos ...
Have tried to persuade both that getting the stuff of family onto a dvd might be better (and getting rid of the rest!!) but apparently not .
We surely can’t be the only people who still have videos under the TV? I dread to think what happens when the vhs machine thing gives up altogether as highly doubt you can buy them now .