Quote Originally Posted by Eraserhead71
you know whats sad? ive had the same bass and same rusty ass strings since i started. no wonder why i hate it more and more
I was in the same boat, and I just bought a set of D'Addario strings yesterday. I haven't played bass much for the past couple of years, and now have an incentive to start again with the new strings.

You can boil old strings and bring them back somewhat, but I've never tried it.

Here's a site that has another method for renewing strings (which I have not tried, either):
http://www.tunemybass.com/strings/ho...s_strings.html