I have tapes everywhere and finally bowed to pressure at the weekend and got rid of my old hi fi system with a double tape deck. I've kept the 'boom box' though and simply refuse to get rid of my tape player in my car. It sounds great, never skips and no-one's going to break into my car.

a ridculously good yamaha deck about 10 minutes before people stopped listening to tapes. What I've done is keep my precorded tapes and the compilation tapes people have made for me and the odd one from when I was a kid.
If there's anything special you can rip it with audacity to play on your ipod.
ps when did we start calling them mixtape rather than compilation tapes i'm sure they always use to be comps?

I finally got rid of mine (a Nakamici no less) about 6 months ago along with almost 100 tapes. I did have a little more incentive though - the 80 / 90% humidity here in Singapore kind of screws up tape.

I did have a list of all the albums I had on tape (most were home taped from the CD library from my student days). Many had been replaced with CD and am gradually replacing some of the better ones via download

Can't say I miss any of them.

I have recently acquired two excellent decks from a friend who moved in with his g/f. I was cassette daft, my room is a shrine to TDK and BSF. They were banished to the attic about 5 years ago whilst I retained a small collection of ISIHACs, JaMs, Mark & Lard Graveyard slots and evergreen faves for the car. It began to dawn on me the wealth of obscurities, oddities and down right treasures I had locked away like my evil twin and how much I needed to hear again.
Can't say there's much room to move about now, but I'm happy.

Unless you are short on space, or pencilled-in for an appearance on a future episode of Trisha, titled: It's me or the cassette deck!.

Mine is in the loft but I am quite sure it will only be moved when we move. Given this is (credit crunch willing) my last home until I am a doddery old man, I know that it won't be old or rare enough (in 25-30 years) to be worth anything and yet I am keeping it for that occasion when I will want to play my old band demo tapes that are also up there. Why, I don't know. It's for Justin I s'pose. Just in case.

Keep it at all costs! I have tons of tapes, they do take up a bit of room, but you'll regret your decision if you chuck your tape player. Been on a bit of a tape frenzy recently and enjoyed listening to Billie Holiday on a Chrome Dioxide tape tonight! Last night it was Sting's Ten Summoners Tales-quite enjoyed it too.

...about having the odd tape or vinyl session is that you are far more unlikely to skip tracks and i have discovered quite a few lost gems in my collection that way.

I got rid of all my hundreds of cassettes a year or two ago when I accepted that I hadn't listened to any of them in years, and probably wouldn't again, given the fact that I had all of my favourites on CD anyway. I haven't got round to disposing of my tape deck yet (simply due to lack of time), but I will soon.

I think I've hung onto too many old things "because they might come in useful", and I'm sure that, sooner than we expect, we'll be jacking into the Matrix and beaming music straight into our brains, and the idea of playing songs on a fragile, muddy-sounding piece of tape that you have to rewind (what's that, granddad? Rewind?) will seem completely mad.

Nostalgia has its place, but that place is the past.