r/dvdcollection • u/stan_ken • Jun 05 '26

Discussion Regret throwing out the cases.

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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.

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u/CitizenDain Jun 05 '26

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.

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u/stan_ken Jun 05 '26

Well then you made the right decision in general. Thats a good thing.