11/16/2025
Great post here and I fully support what she said!
“Ew, why would you switch back to VHS? It’s so much clutter and the quality is terrible.”
Yeah… that’s what I said too.
But honestly? It’s been one of the best things we’ve done for our kids!
I started thrifting old VHS tapes a little over a year ago. The grainy picture, the fuzzy sound, the chunky cases that take up half a shelf and something weird happened… my kids changed.
No arguing over what to pick, no autoplay sucking them into another show, no overstimulation. When it ends, it ENDS.
It’s calmer. Simpler. Quieter.
And I think they needed that.
We’ve gotten so used to things being instant and endless, but maybe a little rewind was exactly what we needed.
So yeah, the quality’s worse, and I have to actually rewind things like it’s 1998…
but the peace it’s brought? Worth every fuzzy frame. 💛📼