One of my favorite blogs, I Heart Organization, had a guest post the other day that I truly loved and had to do myself. It involved simplifying our DVD movie collection. As we mentioned earlier we don’t have cable and probably never will. What we do have are tons and tons of movies. My husband and I got most of ours when we moved out from our parents and took some movies (with their permission) with us. That was the base we then added to that by buying one $5 movie a month and snatching up any movies we don’t have from garage sales and GoodWill. For those we will pay no more than $2. The only full priced movies we ever buy are the newest Disney movies or the Disney movies that are currently released from the vault. I really hate that I had almost all the Disney Movies on VHS and now I have to wait years to get that collection back this time in DVDs. I have put together a fun step by step process on how to organize and simplify a DVD collection using Atlantic Movie sleeves.
Phase 1: Empty the entertainment center of all DVDs
Phase 2: Go through and sort out all movies that contain more than one disc
Phase 3: work rapidamente as the cat glares on at your progress
Phase 4: Sort the movies into alphabetic groups and then try to pair common movies within those groups together. For instance Air Force One was paired with The Bourn Identity. How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days was paired with Hitch. You get a few weird pairings like The Devil Wears Prada and Double Jeopardy.
Phase 5: Cut the front cover of the DVD so you can place that into the sleeve
Phase 6: Put it all together
Phase 7: Clean up the mess
Phase 8: Organize into alphabetical groups then cut and label dividers. Place nicely into cute boxes
Phase 9: Marvel at how little space your movies now take up
Cost Break Down
4 Atlantic Movie Sleeves: $13.99 each so $55.96
2 Boxes: $5.99 Each so 11.98
Total: 67.94
Let’s break that down into a cost per unit
I have 13 unused sleeves which is equivalent to 26 movies that have no second disc
I have 154 different movies in my collection
154 +26 = 180 possible movies that can be stored
Cost per movie: $0.377 that includes the purchase of the 2 storage boxes.
So in the beginning it may look like a lot of money to spend to reorganize and compact your DVD collection, but it’s extremely cheap per movie especially if you don’t have many Special feature or bonus disc or some movies that are just 2 DVDs long. In addition, consider how much cheaper this is compared to buying a nice quality dvd tower or other type of bulky storage unit.
As I went through my collection I made note of some of my favorites:
Favorite Robot movie: Transformers
Favorite President Movie: Air Force One
Favorite action Movie: True Lies
Favorite magical movie: Any of the Harry Potters
Favorite Disney movie: The Little Mermaid
Favorite Foreign film: The Black Book
Favorite Movie to study to: Independence Day
Favorite Christmas Movie: Love Actually
Favorite movie that runs over 4hrs: Pride and Prejudice the A&E version with Colin Firth
Favorite environmental movie: Erin Brockovich
Favorite Chick Flick: While You Were Sleeping
Favorite Scary Movie: Disturbia
Favorite movie involving a sport: Cinderella Man
I could make category after category, but I think that is enough for now. Even though my husband did come up with one awesome category that has to be mentioned
Favorite movie about a man who steals the Declaration of Independence to actually save it from harm and returning it to the government after finding buried treasure: National Treasure
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