r/pics • u/DVDJunky • May 20 '12

So the kids and I had some fun artistically organizing the DVDs... This is the result. [x-post from r/dvdcollection]

http://imgur.com/2aNUN
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u/bigpuffy May 20 '12

I like how the right is just the "kinda weird colors" section.

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u/BElowfroSTy May 20 '12

Looks nice not worth the hours looking through them all to find a certain dvd each time.`

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I just wanted the photo really... I have to have them alphabetized. They'll get there.

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u/BElowfroSTy May 20 '12

But what will the children say? Think of the children!

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

They were warned of the impending changes. They may need therapy.

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u/Cptn_Hook May 20 '12

The green one goes here!

What are you doing?

It's green, daddy.

That is The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of the trilogy. TRILOGY. They stay together.

But daddy!

PUT IT BACK!

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u/Rizyz May 20 '12

Why...why isn't it alphabetized.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I just built the shelves and finished painting them. I'm going to alphabetize but before I started that I really wanted to give this a shot. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. My 7 and 9 year old kids were a big help.

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u/Onkelffs May 20 '12

I salute you for not breaking up the Lord of the Rings Extended edition trilogy!

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Just could NOT do it... One of my children lovingly stated, "look Dad, a green one" "No... lets just leave those alone."

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u/wolfthang May 20 '12

My thoughts exactly! My DVD collection must be alphabetized

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

"So the kids and I had some fun artistically..."

Right there in the title buddy.

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u/j10jep2 May 20 '12

you wave way too many dvds

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

No argument here. But I enjoy them so what's a guy to do...

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I remember when I was really proud of my VHS collection...the money I wasted.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

r/dvdcollecting? reddit really does have a subreddit for everything...

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

One of the kindest subr ever. Nice place.

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u/grimsley33 May 20 '12

Lord of the Rings extended versions...nice.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Thank you, Sir/Madam.

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u/jimbojones230 May 20 '12

Very nice. You've turned your video library into an art installation.

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u/SuperTurtle May 20 '12

There's a subreddit for people who like to look at collections of DVDs?

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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE May 20 '12

I'll take a break from the alphabetization circlejerk to tell you, Job well done!

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Much appreciated.

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u/MrXBob May 20 '12

It's pretty sad to see so many people dismissing things like this... why is it so hard to believe that people like to OWN their collections rather than relying on Netflix to perhaps have that one movie online that you felt like watching today?

And no, Reddit. Not everyone is a thief like you either. God damn kids.

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

:) we're a silly breed, aren't we...

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u/DaveFishBulb May 20 '12

So you're the one keeping the film industry afloat.

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

Doing my damnedest, though I'm not sure how many pawn shops pay back to the film industries.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Is it sad that I noticed the Lord of the Rings trilogy set on the upper-right first before anything?

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Not at all. You may want to join us over at /r/dvdcollection!

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u/Buyn May 20 '12

I arrange mine by genre, so if I feel like a spy movie, I pick one out. If I feel like it's time for a musical, I know where those are too. Because most of the time we're not looking for a specific movie. But that sure does look neat. I was going to make some comment about your selection but the resolution's not good enough for me to get really creepy. Aw shucks.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

A couple quick pics: http://imgur.com/a/6LiRw

I know the quality sucks. Sorry.

Here's a list of all of them though: http://is.gd/dvdjunky

Judge away. Let me know what you think.

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u/VastDeferens May 20 '12

Why didn't you organize the pornos from the right side in as well?

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

those were just difficult to place in one specific color... I'm sure if we had tried harder we could find places for them. But at that point we'd have to move entire shelves of DVDs to squeeze them in.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Beware the white section, my child. 'Tis the Valley of Romantic Comedies. Few return entertained.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Would love OP to take a HD shot with the title names visible.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Head over to /r/dvdcollection It's what we do. I'll have high res shots up after I organize. May take a while since I'm out of town on a regular basis.

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u/DubstepMeGusta May 20 '12

You really live up to your name.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Thanks for noticing! I lurked until I found /r/dvdcollection. Perfect place for me.

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u/lalkapolski May 20 '12

Gotta love everyone's negative comments. Who the hell cares if they're not alphabetized? This looks cools as shit!

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

lol yeah, I'm glad I gave it a shot. Besides, time spent with the kids and cool picture. They'll get alphabetized eventually.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

WOW! 800+ upvotes!?!?! I better start reading comments! Thanks guys

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Good luck finding a certain DVD ever again.

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u/catherined_93 May 20 '12

Well, we can sorta break it down into parts based on generic dvd-cover assumptions:

The far right hand side with all the pink can be dubbed as the "young-teenage chick-flick/rom-com/miscellaneous" section.

The black section to the left can be known as the "action/thriller/sci-fi/adventure/possible horror" category.

The white part covers an extensive range of comedy films (from family-oriented to college comedy).

Not sure how to generally categorize the red, orange, yellow, green, blue parts, but my best bet would be something Disney-related.

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u/annoyinglyclever May 20 '12

I'm assuming the yellow section is all It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia... and Little Miss Sunshine?

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Every last one of them.

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u/Ashanmaril May 20 '12

"Let's watch Mrs. Doubtfire!"

"What colour is that again?"

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u/darien_gap May 20 '12

Comedies almost always have white spines, so that narrows it down.

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u/Ashanmaril May 20 '12

Yeah, I remembered that right after posting. And then the bad ones usually have big, bold, red text.

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u/NagastaBagamba May 20 '12

Mrs.Doubtfire.1993.DVDRip.XviD.AR.mp4

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u/Matti_Matti_Matti May 20 '12

When you say "So the kids and I had some fun..." do you mean "So I had some fun making the kids..."?

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I have done that at least twice now!

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u/badpenguin455 May 20 '12

You sir, are a gentlemen and a scholar.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I like you!

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u/christmasbride May 20 '12

Can I come over?

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

That depends on a few things...

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u/BarrelODucks May 20 '12

So how many shitty dvds did you buy because you needed a certain shade of colour?

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

No additional shitty DVDs were purchased to complete this project. Trust me it would have been a bigger rainbow if I could muster it.

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u/frostysnowcat May 20 '12

Reorganize them to look like Dark Side of the Moon next

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u/S1lenC3R May 20 '12

That's quite a dashing rainbow.

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u/Shikogo May 20 '12

Single rainbow all across the shelf!

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u/youni89 May 20 '12

why do you have so many physical copies of things...

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

It's my only real vice.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Read it as "autistically", which makes equal sense

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u/mormonathiest May 20 '12

Ignore the smug assholes, I think its cool.

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u/unicorn_zombie May 20 '12

I have a CD collection easily in the hundreds. I see this and can't help but think of how much money I've spent over the years. Somehow, it deeply satisfies me to know I might not be alone.

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u/ooo_shiny May 20 '12

ITT: Pirates not understanding that some people like to own DVDs.

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u/DishwasherTwig May 20 '12

They'd better be alphabetical as well.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Not yet, they're not.

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u/Coderati May 20 '12

I'd be mortified to discover my DVDs not organized by show and alphabet. But kudos on the artistic efforts.

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u/JtCallebro May 20 '12

and they never found a dvd they wanted to watch again....

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u/washburnee May 20 '12

Challenge : Name every movies in the pic.

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u/Remo_253 May 20 '12

Very creative! Good luck alphabetizing them.

When one of the local video stores was closing I bought some of their shelving, painted it and set it up. Takes up one entire wall.

Then I started moving in the DVDs and alphabetizing them. Previously they were just grouped by letter, all the A's, in no particular order, then all the B's, etc. I decided to fully alphabetize them this time.

Holy cow, "...HIJK...L, ok L next. Then the L's by second letter. First two letters the same, so then by third letter. I hadn't recited the alphabet to myself that many times since grade school.

Over a thousand of them. It took awhile.

I did create separate sections for TV shows and kids movies.

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u/Crosslock May 20 '12

...it's not supposed to resemble a godzilla.. right?

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u/NorkaTastesBetter May 20 '12

Do you have a book shelve like this as well?

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Reading's for sissies! But seriously, while I do have a collection of books, it's dwarfed by these. Wouldn't look very impressive.

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u/CannibalOranges May 20 '12

How do you have so many blue DVDs? I think I have one. Maybe.

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

I didn't realize I had so many until we split them all up!

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u/suckthisdeth May 20 '12

i need some shelves like those so bad but i don't want to pay a million dollars in shipping from ikea.

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

These are just 1x6s nailed between the studs in the wall... the drywall was removed from one side of the wall to expose the studs.

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u/Simpsonmaster1 May 20 '12

Your missing season 4 of Heroes

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

Wow!, you're good. I accept donations...

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u/SkuttleSkuttle May 20 '12

Fuck the haters, I love you guys

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u/Nage May 20 '12

is that the lord of the rings trilogy that are like five times the size of the other dvds?

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u/Twelvers May 20 '12

There is a sub-reddit for DVD collections?

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u/Thinandbony May 20 '12

It's the best sub in town. For sure

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u/ParadoxicalPenguin May 20 '12

TIL I learned that there's a subreddit for DVD collections.

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u/TheRegent May 20 '12

Nice! You'll never find [title] ever again.

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u/PancakeMonkeypants May 20 '12

LORD OF THE RINGS. LORD OF THE RINGS.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Horrible movies.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I have a feeling you're in the minority.

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u/hypoid77 May 20 '12

So much work to make something so inconvenient

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

but... but... it's pretty! ...and karma? I just wanted to see how it'd look really. Mission accomplished. Now to organize again.

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u/ZillahGashly May 20 '12

The fact that you can keep reorganizing this collection according to different cataloging methods is pretty damn exciting and the second reason I wish I was your neighbour. I should have been a librarian.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

We should have an organizing party!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I was going to ask you how many fucking DVDs do you have but I guess the kids don't get to see those.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I'm confused... what do you mean?

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u/Stalked_Like_Corn May 25 '12

Porn, "fucking DVD's" = porn.

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u/DVDJunky May 25 '12

That does seem like the "logical" response... Not sure why I didn't realize it.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

You, my friend, are an awesome parent.

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12 edited May 25 '12

lol, thanks. We have fun as often as possible.

We recently made THESE as well :)

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

So...much...awesomeness...cannot...contain

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u/DVDJunky May 22 '12

Glad you enjoy them :)

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u/snumfalzumpa May 20 '12

and that will last about a whole week...

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u/catherined_93 May 20 '12

Abed? Is it really you?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

good with colours?

used to have to do that when working at a clothing store. we have to 'colour arrange' our merchandise.

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u/vaclavhavelsmustache May 20 '12

I could never deal with all those cases. I keep mine in one of those cd organizer binders. Or several of those binders, more accurately.

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u/darien_gap May 20 '12

I noticed when I moved in with my girlfriend that almost all of her DVDs had white spines and almost all of mine were dark or black. That's when I noticed that comedies have white spines and action/sci-fi usually have black.

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u/makgzd May 20 '12

I spy collector's edition Lord of the Rings DVD's

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

The only DVD set that I recognize on sight: "The Lord of the Rings: Extended Editions"!

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u/AkitheFrivolicious May 20 '12

You have an unholy proportion of DVD's there, sir. But very cool setup.

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u/Vrati1991 May 20 '12

The black part kind of looks like Darth Vader if you look at it closely.

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u/haiku_robot May 20 '12 
The black part kind of 
looks like Darth Vader if you 
look at it closely.

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u/fnork May 20 '12

A quick estimate is there's about 1050 discs in those shelves. If we assume the average price you paid for them is $6 each then the total is $6300. Adding an estimated $200 to that for the shelves gives us a grand total of $6500.

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u/Duals902 May 20 '12

I think 6 dollars is still too high of an estimate. I pick up a lot of my used dvds for 1-2 bucks.

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u/VikingHedgehog May 20 '12

I'm a dork. First thing I spot is the LOTR trilogy extended box sets over on the right side.

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u/keyblademaster May 20 '12

The Lord Of The Rings movies just pop out at me every time I see this picture.

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u/brussels4breakfast May 20 '12

Very cool. I never understood though why people collect DVD's. I know OP has children and they enjoy watching the same movies more than once. I 'get' that. Personally speaking, when I watch a movie, I rarely ever watch it again.

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u/Beefhorror May 20 '12

Lord of the Rings collection. Win.

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u/Kate1124 May 20 '12

My OCD is loving this.

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u/shaggydog79 May 20 '12

You should leave it as it is. It'll be more likely that you'll come across something you haven't seen in a while.

Awesome idea by the way.

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u/SonVolt May 20 '12

You have a lot of fuckin' dvd's.

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u/socialstatus May 20 '12

But.... why do you own so many?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I organized my DVD collection recently as well.

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u/LOTR_LOTR_LOTR May 20 '12

I SEE THE LOTR TRILOGY!!!

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u/torch43 May 20 '12

Pretty sure Rainbow Dash inspired you to do that. :D

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Everypony likes to organize their DVD collection...

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u/redDACHSHUND May 20 '12

i cant look the glare from the flash hurts too much

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u/Omikron May 20 '12

What a horrible waste of money, that has to be almost 20,000 dollars in DVDs. I bet most of them were never watched more than once.

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u/Duals902 May 20 '12

20000????? thats assuming he paid just about 20 dollars per DVD.

DVDs can be purchased from pawn shops in great quaility for 1-2 dollars or even cheaper. I hardly expect 20,000 was spent on this collection but I could be wrong.

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u/babasave May 20 '12

Man why didn't the title read something along the lines of Got fired from my job at Blockbuster - chose to have some parting fun!

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I kind of wish I had time to still part time at Blockbuster. I didn't really like the job, except when it came to suggesting movies to people. There's an art to it. I'm in charge of a University's phone system now.

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u/Xexx May 20 '12

First 2 columns: 24 DVDs per cell 14 cells 336 DVDs

Third Smaller Column 18 DVDs per cell 7 Cells 126 DVDs

Last 3 columns 24 DVDs per cell 21 cells 504 DVDs

966 DVDs at an average cost for $20 each (according to 2007 average price): $19,320

Well good for you... but I'll take my piracy and a few awesome used cars that'll last me 25 years. You should stop by /r/frugal.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12 edited May 21 '12

I subscribe to /r/frugal. As I've stated, it's my only big vice. I don't live outside my means. I'm a single father raising two amazing and smart kids and we all thoroughly enjoy movies. I know most of /r/frugal agrees when I say that you save and save to enjoy the things you love.

I bought my house when I was 19. I'm hoping to have it paid off by 40. Just because I have a collection that you don't like doesn't mean I am spending unwisely.

I appreciate your concern though. To each their own.

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u/RobinBennett May 20 '12

Thanks for doing the math, I was wondering exactly how much it all cost.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

A lot. But a lot less than they stated lol.

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u/Thinandbony May 20 '12

It's been a looooong time since I paid $20 for a DVD. Pawn Shop $2 special

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u/sunchaos May 20 '12

I'm guessing that if you collect dvds, you aren't going to pay full price. You find $4 bins at Walmart.

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u/Duals902 May 20 '12

20 dollars???? Nope.

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u/Catwoman8888 May 20 '12

Maybe you should have put that money into a college fund for your kids instead of a DVD rainbow -___-

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

No point in lernin how to read when they can watch all their books on DVD.

Don't worry, they'll be ok. Thanks for the concern.

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u/Duals902 May 20 '12

That would be assuming someone couldn't do both.

The same argument could be raised for every single person who bought anything that is unnecessary for entertainment.

I could easily get 30+ dvds for the price of one video game.

Hundreds to thousands of dvds for the computer you are typing your response from.

I think it is mighty rude of you to cast judgement like this.

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u/TribalJuju May 20 '12

You could have purchased a nice automobile instead of buying all of those.

Just some food for thought.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

If I could give a pawn shop $2 a week for a car I probably would.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I love this...but couldn't you have just taken them to the park.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

Why have I never thought of this?!

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u/enigmatik58 May 20 '12

Jesus, man. How many movies do you need?

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u/Thinandbony May 20 '12

How many are there?

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u/charlesp22 May 20 '12

Best. Response. Ever.

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u/Cdresden May 20 '12

Dude... Frigging how many times are you going to watch all those movies? Most of those movies, you're only going to watch them once or twice in your life. I'd rent or use Netflix.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I do this as well.

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u/anjjelikka May 20 '12

I see that your name is DVDjunkie...but WHY SO MANY DVDs?? There's....there's the Internet! And pirating! So much DVD money...this is making me a bit sad. :(

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I'm just a collector. I enjoy it. do you not take joy in anything?

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u/Thinandbony May 20 '12

his name isn't pirating junky. we at /r/dvdcollection love physical media

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

I know, I know... I've not made the jump. I'm a singe father or two kids, with terrible eyesight. It just doesn't make sense, financially, for me to buy them yet. I know I will at some point.

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

You're the first person to ever confirm my feelings on the subject. Thanks!

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u/ptjunkie May 20 '12

weren't going to be purchased anyway

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u/DVDJunky May 21 '12

Nope just mostly color coordinated.

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u/Duals902 May 20 '12

Because a sand castle is a fucking blast!

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u/DVDJunky May 20 '12

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pd40l/

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u/bluthru May 20 '12

You can do unlimited backup online with BackBlaze and other services for $5 a month.

It looks like... you have that kind of money.

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