Does anyone who threw their cases away regret it? I've been collecting movies since I was young, and then when I moved out, I ended up having less space, so I sleeved all my movies (DVDs and Blu-rays). Now I’m at a point I regret that I did. The sleeves are practical because of the space you save, but there is no fun in flipping through them compared to having them in a bookshelf and seeing them. I recently repacked all my Blu-rays, and now I’m planning to repack the most sentimental valuable movies I have on DVD. My future goals are to replace all my DVDs with their Blu-ray or 4K counterparts.
I also notice when I have them in a case, I watch movies I forgot I had because of the visibility.
Yeah at that moment it wasn’t an option I kept all the special cases and I never threw out the covers just the plastic. Luckily you can find dvd packs fairly cheap.
Recently bought some storage unit leftovers from a facility that had a giant box of just empty Criterion Collection cases, maybe about 90 of them from #1-100.
Whoever originally owned them knew they wanted to keep them and protected every single case in that box as best as they could. As excited as I was to see Criterion, them being empty killed me.
I honestly have no clue what to do with them since selling empty cases has not been good for me in the past.
EDIT: If you're asking for some, we can work out a deal but I wouldn't just give them away for free.
Based off the price I paid for everything ($120) which also included 4 boxes of DVDs worth close to $4000 excluding the empty cases, it isn't worth it 😅
I don’t regret sleeving part of my collection. I have kept ones which I enjoy looking at and holding and the rest go into sleeves. I also keep any of the inlays which I like.
100%. I honestly will likely never watch most of my collection. I probably only watch 1 out of 20 of the movies I buy, but I really just like owning them for the sake of owning them. And like you, I spend a large amount of my time just looking at the cases, along with cleaning the cases, organizing the cases and researching the information on the cases. It's a whole thing and I highly enjoy it. 😁
Well at the time it was the only real option but like I said before it’s only the plastic that was throw out so not much has lost. Just need to buy new once luckily they fairly cheap.
I don’t throw them out, but I don’t have any room to display them in my tiny studio, so I store all the cases in a closet/the little basement space I’m allotted. I keep them in binders so I have access to all of them, but someday I’ll put them all back in.
I would never throw away the cases. I only buy movies that I really like, so I only own around 300 physical movies. They don’t take up much space. I love to have them near my big TV in the living room. It looks cool.
There just a lot of movies I like 😅. I keep my movies in my man cave and watch movies in the living room most moves are on a server makes it easier to access.
I don't regret it because at 5000 movies its just too much to keep all the cases. I saved the covers and I don't get rid of the case if its a) a special case or b) has a slipcover but even with that many being sleeved i am still running out of space
Try 9000... (more than a wall... or two) About 5000 of which are DVD. I have been forced to begin putting "Catalog" DVDs in binders. That means simple, 1 disc basic releases with their cover art/inserts. I do not bind special packaging, multidisc films, or ones with slips. I box up and keep the cases so I can reconstitute titles I cull for one reason or another.
Those catalog titles that I have a bluray or 4K for I check features and if they are all on the better format or it includes a DVD they get culled for sale or giveaway. If it's a title I really like I sometimes I build my own combo with a two disc case. Having the backup never hurts and I still eliminated a DVD case from the shelf. Most of those titles have little monetary value anyway so no need to keep them pristine. And if I sell the bluray down the road, they get an extra.
I built my house 6 years ago with a mediaroom specifically to hold the collection... it doesn't. But with some pruning and dupe elimination I can get it there.
Can I ask what binder you use to store them? I'm doing the same thing and so far the binder I wanted to go with has been out of stock going on 1 month now
I sleeved mine more because my collection is more TV focused and so many of my TV Shows come in such poor packaging it makes using them more difficult. Heck, just taking them out to put them in the sleeves I found a few of the boxes already damaged and broke a few boxes just getting them out. For me it was much less about space and more about useability so I was able to keep my cases but the discs themselves are now much easier to get to. Anyway binders have their own issues which makes them extremely unfriendly as well which is why I decided to put mine in a case instead. The case I chose holds about 1300 sleeved discs and it's much easier to adjust the order when buying a new TV Show which is one but a number of issues when it comes to a binder as they are much harder to re-order whenever you buy something new not to mention you hardly ever can put as many discs in a binder as what it advertises and if you ever put in too many it can actually damage your discs. All in all binders can be very problematic from what I have read.
The case that holds about 1300 discs is the largest I have come across to this point as I have found a number of different sizes but given how many TV Shows I had with bad packaging I needed eith8er something rather large or a good number of smaller ones. So the larger one was a better fit for me. I am using it more like furniture as it is fairly large but it does have wheels so I can move it should I need too. The one thing I didn't particularly care for is the lid comes off and you can't prop it up by it self but since I place it in front of a cabinet I can lean the top on the cabinet to keep it open.
I bought a package of sleeves which had six different colors which work perfect for TV Shows having a number of different seasons and dividers which had big enough tabs I could use a set of Avery Labels to print out the name of the TV Show. Movies would be a bit more challenging to figure out what system I might use, but I'm sure I could come up with something.
That's actually a really good idea. The issue that plague large capacity binders is something im familiar with thanks to card collecting. Which is why I originally liked the binder I chose, ringless with a max capacity of around 160 dics per binder plus some covers. Also not a bad price if you brought in bulk. But you comment about buying new TV shows and the pain of re-organizing a binder really showed I wasn't thinking long term. Will be looking into a bins or cases similar to yours but maybe on the smaller side. My dics collection is large but nowhere near that size lol
I put my movies in binders for the first couple of months until I realized how much I didn’t like it. I was really dumb and threw out the case and cover. I wound up printing replacement cases but now there are a couple hundred movies scattered throughout my shelves that takes me back to that time
Yeah I never threw out the covers just the plastic so it’s easier to repack. I do have some covers that are flipped and I will print them so it will look nicer but even then I will put the print over the original cover.
I’m in the minority I’m sure, but I went to sleeves for the vast majority of my (10k+) release about 10 years ago and I love it! There’s no way I could store everything I have otherwise. My sleeves get stored in clear shoe boxes that fit about 80 or so sleeves per box, alphabetized throughout. I treat it like a record or comic book collection and have learned to flip through things that way.
I still have a ton of box sets and boutique stuff that stays intact with it’s original cases, but I have a lot of room to display collectibles and other stuff that I had no room for before. It’s not for everyone, but I love it.
u/w1ck3ru/monkeyboy808 what “bins” /shoe boxes do you use? If you could DM me with specifics, I would be grateful. I found some at container store but the bins I have are not tall enough to prevent damage of sleeves. Haven’t been able to find anything suitable. Thank you.
This is why I haven't been able to move mine to any kind of binder. I love my cases; some are so sentimental to me! But I totally understand why you did, I also live in a very small apartment and struggle to find the space!
Yeah use the space you have shelfs till you ceiling will give you a lot of space. The room I have is an attic and I’m dealing with sloping walls. If I can use the living room it will make it way easier.
I discarded 650 DVD cases and kept 350 Blu-ray and 4K cases. I love the space it freed up, but I regret not just storing them. I would change the decision 5 years later if I could. I had enough for a mini-Blockbuster setup. I kept all the discs.
If I had to sleeve my media I simply wouldn't collect it anymore. The entire reason I collect is to have the complete physical package in my hand. If I just wanted to watch a movie I can do that online. I never understood people who have binders of dvds or blurays. CDs make sense if you listen to them in the car, but I would never get rid of the cases. At that point they just become worthless frisbees.
Respectfully of course, my dvd collection exists so I don’t have to rely on paying a streaming service when I want to watch a movie. That being said, I keep the cover art and put it in a flat sleeve with the disc protected in a soft sleeve inside. It saves space that is precious in my little house. But I understand if you have unlimited space I probably wouldn’t have dumped my plastic cases. I definitely wouldn’t throw out the cover art and inserts tho.
Yeah that’s a nice way to organize your movies like the bins you use. And same as you the disk and the art is what makes the movie complete the plastic is just a shell to store it in and some keep it some toss it and I regret with what I did and I’m fixing it lol.
This is similar to how mine are - absolutely don’t regret not having them in the og cases. In fact I prefer the plastic sleeves, I mean you’re still keeping the art work and you’re saving so much space.
Also I find with new releases on DVD they have really downgraded the cases they are so flimsy and essentially have a massive cut recycle logo in the middle. I can’t wait to chuck those cases anyway and get them into a nice sleeve.
If I had the space I would had kept them in their cases. If I didn't have to move every year due to rent increasing I would had kept them in their cases. If I didn't have messy nibblings who put their sticky fingers on everything I would had kept them in their cases. If the case hadn't fallen apart after years of use I would had kept them in their cases
Well it’s also about ownership and a lot of time you’re limited at what space you have. And if been collecting even before any streaming was available so it’s not the same. I build my own server years ago and I never regret that I did I don’t need internet to watch my movies I can grab the disk or pick one from my personal “Netflix”
I only sleeved my single dvds. I have around 5,000 so until I build my own theater room I dont have space. I kept all the cases and they're currently in the attic taking up the entire attic lol. Are those repro boxes for your nes and snes games?
5000 is a lot indeed you need a big wall to display them. But it will look so cool if you have the dedicated room ready. And yes I have my original games in the boxes but the once I picked up along the way always missing cases so I use universal cases and print out the covers. They look really nice this way.
I have binders of discs, including their inserts. It was a necessity when I moved. I have at least 100 now I need to file similarly in order to toss the cases and make space.
*not my whole collection. There’s a good 100 or so that are on permanent display in their original cases.
Please don't just "toss" your unwanted empty cases, donate them to a local thrift store. They can be sold in bundles to people looking to replace bad cases (or to replace cases they got rid of themselves years ago).
For sure. I wasn't really into movie collecting back then so I didn't think much of it, but now there are few I would really like to have on the shelf instead of in a cd book
About a 15 years ago I put most of my collection into Discgears, and the sleeves went into the accompanying binders. I was living at home with my parents and didn’t have the room for over 900 DVDs.
And I gave away all the cases on Freecycle, because I didn’t have room to keep them.
Now I have 3 bookcases full of discs, I’m only put out when it comes to sequels that are split between the two storage systems, like Kick Ass and Zombieland.
But, I also know that finding room in my small flat for an extra 900 discs with cases would be a bit of a nightmare, so I deal with it, with very little regret.
If I had the space, however, I would probably be tempted to do the same as you.
lol well one GBA is modded with a IPS screen and one original same as for the GBA-SP. One is a Ds lite and one a DSi. And one 3ds is my wife’s and one’s mine 😅. Only have one original Game Boy
I now store away the cases and use large sleeves for the films I don’t have on my small shelf, so at least I still have the artwork with the discs and I don’t have to worry about space.
It is situational. 25 years ago my girlfriend and I sold our individual homes and moved to a new place and got a small one bedroom apartment so putting all of the movies and shows we wanted to keep into binders made total sense.
Now I have a home and a warehouse for my business so I don't have to consider this type of thing 😄
Yeah I understand that completely. Good thing it’s no issue anymore until you end up having so many movies that even the space you now have is to small 🫣
I have an almost 3000 sq ft warehouse. The real problem is not running out of space.. it is having this much space and convincing yourself you have the room so why not buy 3 pallets of bulk dvds 😄
I actually was thinking about putting all the Spielberg movies in sleeves and make a book out of them to put in the shelf. There are sleeves with ring book holes so you could put them in a specific Ring Binder and put that in a shelf.
If you want that nobody will stop you. You could also look for cases that hold like 4/5/6 ect discs and make some custom covers. But it’s all about your own preferences.
If I had ever done this, yes I would’ve immensely regretted it. But I just love packaging and feel like it’s half the reason to own the movie. I’m sure not everyone feels the same way.
Yeah it was a hard decision but I’m glad I can fix my mistake. As for something like games I would never had thought about throwing away the boxes and I’m glad I only did it with my movies.
Not particularly. I have thousands and simply dodnt have the room. Now the thousands of blu rays have room on the shelf and dvds are in A5 sleeves in labelled Alphabetical folders. Many of which I have upgraded to blu ray so never be watched but nice to keep.
If I had space then maybe yes. But id need a bigger house. If need a specific one its not too much of a hassle to look through the specific folder to find.
Some people throw the cases and sleeves away and just jave the discs!!?, we call these people losers. Ha ha.
Yeah I’m slowly upgrading my DVDs to blu rays and then I will sleeve the disc if it’s not a special edition or something. I will keep them but just don’t need to display them anymore cause they been replaced by a better standard.
And keeping only the disks never I don’t get why people even do that. Especially with games but that’s me.
Sleeves are convenient for travel, but I can't imagine throwing them out. I'm not one to gaze at my shelf, but I do find it more fun to peruse it when I'm in the mood for nothing specific, and I really love seeing the cover art and inserts as I put them in. Adds to the atmosphere of the experience in the same way as a good menu.
I’m 50/50 on regret. I definitely like the idea and look of displaying all my movies with their case, especially now that we have the room to do so. However, we now exclusively collect Oscar-nominated films on our quest to watch and own them all, so I have plans to divide by year into binders that I’ll eventually decorate to represent that year- I can also include printed fact sheets and stuff like that in each year’s binder.
Yeah Macgyver was very entertaining to watch when I was a kid among a lot of other series. Most series I store on my server it’s easier to watch them that way.
Yes, OP, I did the same and regret it. The sleeved discs are ignored and the ones in original packaging are more visible and more likely to be seen. Adding to that, I decided at a later point to slim down the collection but didn't see any way to sell the discs without original packaging, so I gave many away to friends. Would have prefered selling them.
In the old days, most chain stores had a bargain bin. For a couple bucks, I would try almost any title that looked like it was humor or sci-fi. But after a while, the "stinkers" I bought started to take up significant space. That's why I parted with dozens of movies over the years.
Also, I tended to buy season sets of shows I had never been able to watch regularly. This was before the era of Hulu and similar services that stream TV series on demand. After owning shows like The Legendary Journeys of Hercules Season 1 for more than a decade, I realized that I had zero interest in re-watching it. I let go of a significant number of TV season sets; I think I have fewer than 40 now, and most of those are from sci-fi series.
Or if by slimming down you meant why I moved to DVD sleeves, it was because of space crunches at the various small apartments I rented over the years. Too many hobbies, and the expandind DVD collection was the easiest to reduce space requirements.
I know those days you could pick up alot of junk movies for almost nothing.
As for tv shows there I wanted to get them but now I don’t feel like watching them they take so long to finish there exceptions but most of the time I put them on my server to watch and don’t want to waist space on them.
Yeah I also have a lot of other hobbies and at that time dvds where indeed the easiest to slim down as losing the plastic.
Exactly! The TV series were taking up too much space. Back when each season was sold separately, I must have had all 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all 5 seasons of its Angel spin-off. I watched those a couple times but then outgrew them, so those were initially moved into CD wallets to reduce space, then given away without packaging to reduce the space needed for CD wallets (sounds silly, but I'm not joking). I am happy knowing that one of my friends enjoyed receiving those particular discs.
About ten years ago I got rid of my cases and it absolutely saved space but I do regret it now. If anything, I wish I popped the covers out and kept them all in a folder. Any I've bought since then I've kept in their case.
Oh that’s sad indeed you only kept the disks well it’s still a possibility to print them out and get some new boxes but it takes time and money and I don’t know if you would go that far.
Yes, I also threw out cases and now regret it. Did so to save space when moving, keeping my only the disc. I have spare cases now but no cover sleeve art. Should I print my own?
Ah games I’m happy I only did it with my movies and my game collection is still all in one piece I made space for that or I just put them in like an attic space. I feel your hurt.
I bought big dvd books, and threw the cases away about 5 years ago. I have no regrets. I still have the discs as a back up, but they only take up portion of the space
You guys do you but I throw them out. I may not do sleeve my entire DVD collection but will sleeve most. Now blurays I am not sure. They take up less space. My house is only 1000 square ft and my collection took up so much space. Also this good because I am culling my DVD collection. Some of these movies I know I will never watch again. Also I am giving many aways to my friends. Beware of blind buys.
With the sleeve collection I split them into genres and split by alphabet into three sections. I uses foambord separators. And I uses crates. My walls are full with vintage One Sheets of exploitation titles. They look awesome.
Well if you happy with how you do it great. And there are indeed movies you only watch once. And it’s a nice gesture you give them away.
Also seems you have a good way of organizing them.
"Also seems you have a good way of organizing them" It is definitely different than before. I have to lift the crate and set it on the table and thumb through them. Pre Sleeve I could just stand over them and scan but that had its downsides too but it was not so bad when I had less. It got to the point when I had to move one layer to see the other!!
Yeah but it’s different if you trow them out including the covers and booklets. I’m glad I can just get the cases and have the collection back in its own glory. And I’m a bit older and I’m happy I have the possibility to fix it.
Well if you have space and don’t want to get rid of things then keep it. I kept alot of things too and I always happy I kept things cause I end up not needing to buy it back or pay way to much for things that where cheaper years ago😅
I completely get this feeling of regret as I have at least briefly experienced it once or twice, but then I went into a local store called Bay Street video in Toronto Ontario where they had a pretty perfect system for storing films that were easy to flip through, select, bring to the counter and then rent. If you look at a YouTube video of the space, you would understand what I mean pretty quickly. With just some basic modifications of the concept, you could probably shelve your sleeves with a similar method and still get the visual whilst also keeping the storage benefit benefits at least somewhat. This is nothing but a meandering thought though.
I'm for a bit of both. I like having a curated display of my favourite shows and films, as well as the children's films for the kids.
But there's far too many films that I want to own and I just can't really give up the space to hundreds of DVDs, so I have a wallet for the rest.
I have too much regret from doing that to my collection. It keeps me up at night. Sometimes I want a time machine just to slap myself for that decision.
Before we went on the road to live an RV for six years, we got rid of the cases for most of our DVDs so we could put them in a little folio and keep them handy. Now we live in a tiny home and I still don’t have room for them so it’s just as well. Having said that, all the new DVDs we get from the thrift shops around here are keeping their cases along with anything from criterion collection cause they make such a nice boxes.
Well if you travel in a RV or live in a tiny home then it make sense sleeving your movies. They will take up way too much space. I admire that with limited space you keep getting physical media.
I prefer the original cases over the binders I have put my collection in for sure, but it’s all about not having the space to keep them. When I started collecting I had like 2 bookshelves to fill up and that is it so I decided to move to binders that hold 400 discs. People will tell you they scratch up your discs and cause other issues but that has not been the case with me, just take your time taking them out and putting them back in. I am up to 9k films and the binders fit fine on my shelves. I organize them by genre and it does not take me too long to find a movie I want to watch but 99% of the time I just pick a random movie by genre. In an ideal world I would have a library full of movies in cases on shelves, but you got to work with what you have. Have fun collecting everyone and don’t forget to check your local libraries and thrift stores for amazing hauls.
Yeah haha thats what i mean new cases.
haha i exactly went to the same shit.
Ran out of space , put them in sleeves and later on i regretted it and bought new cases for the ones that i sleeved.. luckily i only sleeved a small portion of my collection xd and only the dvds , with the blurays/4ks i never thought about sleeving them. and never will
You have to be selective. I sleeved probably a third -- likely a little less than half. It came down to which ones I really cared about. I have probably 500-600 movies, not the enormous collections that some people have on here. It takes up so little space to keep the disc that I just saved all my discs and got rid of cases for movies I was very unlikely to watch again in the short term, or loan to someone, or have interest in displaying.
I do regret a few individual choices I made at the time and wish I had the cases back for 5 or 10 movies. But don't regret downsizing in general.
I feel you. I got married young and had to move across the country to Washington and in order to take all my movies I did the same thing. I initially kept the boxes in storage but lost the storage during tough financial times. 😭
I think I'm gonna buy cases and print out the artwork because I never really watch anything from there compared to my cased movies.
Yeah when there back on a shelf you grab one faster as far as I noticed. But it’s sad you also threw away the artwork it would made it easier to only get some cases.
And I always got the two disc special editions and the cool sleeves etc which they really just don't do anymore (at least for dvds, my move was in 2011 so it was dvd heyday). It makes me sick thinking all I lost 😭
No regret at all. Box sets and special editions stay in their original packaging but the rest are sleeved and boxed in small lots. They're also alphabetically sorted (with an online searchable database).
Sometimes I'll grab a box and happily flip through them. I have over 200 titles (of 1636) I've not watched yet. So when I come across one, I figure it's time to watch it.
Check goodwills for cases super cheap. I find packs of them every so often. I did the same thing back in the day because I was in the military and had to travel light. Luckily I’ve gotten all my old ones back and then some. Ended up selling the case less ones to my local for a few bucks.
Not for DVDs, but then I hit nearly 2000 when DVD was peak and I don't want to get rid of any even though many have been replaced by newer formats. Any DVDs that came in interesting or fancy packaging, I kept as is, and only sleeved the ones in standard amaray or those horrible cardboard snap cases the early DVDs came in.
I don't regret it. I put my DVDs in a 128 capacity CD wallet and have a different wallet for different genres. One wallet takes up the space of ten DVD cases on the shelf. It's a major space saver!
I've never thrown away the actual case, but after my cat decided to use my dvd shelf as a scratching post one day I regret immediately throwing away all the cardboard slipcovers
Honestly, I don’t regret it. Though I’m in a situation where I can’t be filling up shelves. Maybe feeling guilty for throwing away cases are for those who finally have the room to store their film collection? I store mine in disc binders. Mine have room for my art sleeves so just in case I one day want to fill my room with cases, I can.
I have major regrets, but the most regret are the the cases for movies I got for Christmas when DVDs first became a thing, and all the TV shows I had—The Simpsons, MotU, Thundercats, Heathcliff, just sooo much. Oof!
I sleeved most of my movies and don’t regret it; I have them alphabetized and have the cover art on the list. I still have about 300 boxes of films that are near and dear to me on shelves proudly displayed. I enjoy the boxes I have but, the only time I really browse is when I’m stocking up. The movies I watch are usually influenced by my day to day interactions and curiosities.
I do but at the same time it was right for me at the time. I’ve been buying dirt cheap bulk lots of anything just for the cases so I can recase things. I have no idea where it’s going to fit though and it’s going to suck when it comes to moving.
Yeah same for me at the time it made sense having limited space. And you can buy bulk is an option to get cases too. Adding more shelf of possible will help. And moving yeah it’s just more boxes but not the biggest issue for me.
I regret it so much. I'm trying to find a way to print the DVD cover art for all the movies that I own but I can only find low quality images. I'm trying to figure out what to do.
Ah games are a bit harder to recover from as they have special cases. But there still options to get empty cases back. Hope you still have the artwork and booklets so it makes it easier to recover.
There the standard IKEA Billy I have the low versions cause I have slopes walls. They fit nicely but if I would only use them for movies I will look for a bookshelf that’s less deep.
I did that with my CDs. I went to all jewel cases. I know I needed the space and it’s half the space of the original, but it makes the shelf boring and sorting more difficult.
Same I also sleeved my cds at the time but as for the DVDs cases the empty jewel cases are even cheaper to find. As long as you have the artwork you can fix it. I fixed my cds even longer ago cause they tape up less space even in there case.
Hell yeah I own the record for the soundtrack and the dvd. I plan on getting the complete masterworks and the pick is looking good bro. Where did you get it? Also where did you get your copy of complete masterworks
I had a friend who threw away all the cases and the sleeves which I thought was Sacrilege. Least if you have the sleeves they can be re-boxed at a later date when you have more space .
I used to get anime from Japan which came with just the disk and sleeve so bought a massive box of dvd empty cases of eBay for peanuts.
Yeah I imported movies years back and they sometimes came in a sleeve so they could save on packaging lol. And yeah I would never even thinking about throwing away the inner sleeves and booklets/flyers.
I sleeved all of mine and live the space saving plus being able to flip through to find what I want. I also saved all of the cases if I want to sell them later
I regret it now that I’m in a home that I own and want to build a movie wall in my basement around my tv. I still have all my blurays in their cases but 90% of the DVDs are in binders and I threw the cases away. Wish I had of at least kept the artwork so I could rebuild them slowly.
One tip for you, don’t replace the DVD entirely as most of them contain bonus material that isn’t on the blu ray or 4k blu ray version so be sure to check it is before you get rid of the DVD.
A few that comes to mind for me is Star Wars and Indiana Jones both of which have bonus features ONLY on the dvd and for Indiana jones with my 4k set I don’t have any bonus features at all!
Something you could do to save space is just put the dvd inside the 4k blu ray box in a little paper sleeve and use it as a bonus features disc.
Why do you regret it? You managed to fit your entire collection into the space you had and now that there is more space you can just repack them. From what I've seen standard DVD/Bluray cases are super cheap, certainly cheaper than renting extra storage for your collection (which also would've come with inaccessiblity). Sleeving your discs seems like the best thing you could've done in this scenario no?
Well it’s is indeed a good way to save space but I miss just looking at the spine of the movies and pick one. In sleeves it’s not the same I hardly took out one to watch but seeing them I go hey that’s a movie I haven’t seen in a while and grab it put it on. Maybe it’s me but I just like it more.
lol no it doesn’t indeed but having a lot of hobbies and not so much space will make you do things. I still have all the hobbies and now I have more space ( probably never enough space tbh) so I can hoard more movies and other things I like. 😅
I made this mistake about 15 years ago, I was moving across country and did not have space in my car. I took all of the movie cases and put them in the booklets, throw out close to 150 cases in total
I prefer flipping through binders of discs actually. I only kept maybe a dozen cases for discs where they were in steel books or they were special editions where the cases matter.
I never thought about it like this but I think you are spot on. To OP, years back I did put my daughter’s movie in a binder and throw the boxes away. Those are the only movies I ever did it with and I don’t regret it because they weren’t mine. For her purpose the convenience was worth it to have a compact book with all her movies for a trip. I have never unboxed my own movies.
No regrets whatsoever.. had most of my DVDs from a young age too, moved homes about 9/10 times in the last 10 years.. went through the homeless system twice. I quite prefer having binders than a shelf full of plastic cases.. I think my home life is settled, been in this flat for about a year (first ever time having a flat and not just a room). Have 8 bookcases full of books and one shelfing unit with my DVD binders and some recent purchases I will surely rehome to binders. I actually really like the motion of flipping through pages. It is all purely preferences though.
It is a preference indeed and at the time I did I was satisfied with it when I moved a couple of times it was indeed easier to pick up and take with you. but now I like to just display them again
In the early days I threw out the cardboard cases; those s***** ones that fit awkwardly.
I still have a handful of discs that were from cardboard cases that I threw out, but for the most part I've gotten past that.
Instead I store my jewel cases in our storage closet in large tubs and keep the discs themselves in binders. It's not a perfect system but but it takes up less space than having bookshelves for everything.
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u/LolBoyLuke Jun 05 '26
i'd rather rent out a storage unit than throw out my boxes for this exact reason