Sleeping to 20 year old answering machine tapes from my grandma's house
Last month I went back to my hometown in Ohio to clear out my grandma's house, and I found a box of old cassette tapes from her answering machine, stuff from like 1995 to 2003. I brought one home and digitized it just to hear her voice again, but what really got me was all the random calls. My aunt asking about a casserole recipe, my cousin bragging about a hockey goal, my dad saying he'd be late for Sunday dinner. Now I've made a playlist of just the voicemail snippets and I listen to it every night before bed, it's like a warm blanket of people who are still around and some who aren't. The audio quality is rough, lots of hiss and beeps, but that's part of why it works, it doesn't feel too polished or fake. I rotate through maybe 4 tapes so I don't wear out the same messages, and I usually drift off by the time my uncle's third message plays. Has anyone else tried sleeping to old home recordings or family voicemails? Or am I just getting too sentimental in my 40s?