sracer

I've never succumbed to rampant blind buys, but I did buy discs for titles that I was only mildly interested in because of a good price and figured, "at that price even if I watch it once, it is slightly more than a rental".

In addition to putting most of my collection in binders, I went through those titles that I was "iffy" about, watched them, and then gave them away. It was a lot easier to get rid of titles after I immediately watched them.

Trevor

I'm doing something like this too. I am slowly going thru my unwatched collection, averaging 1 per day for the last year almost. As I find clunkers I put them in the "to sell or give away" pile.

hindolio

imho, while you are a collector, dont give them up!

if you are not a collector, are no longer a collector, or no longer want to be a collector and are serious about it, make the tough choices. get rid of anything and everything you can. period. just do it. dont look back. keep it simple stupid. sayonara. yada yada.

good luck

chuckd21

Money seems to be a good motivator too, lol...

I was listing titles on Half.com over the weekend as I pulled them out of boxes, and last night I checked to see how they were doing. I'd already sold $300 worth! Well, that was all the motivation I needed to dive back into the boxes I'd already gone through. Not surprisingly, I found quite a few more discs I was willing to part with.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys, keep them coming! This seems like it would be a useful thread to many of us...

starseed1981

Ditto.

PHMustang2000

I had to move from California to New Mexico and at the time I had over 200 DVDs, mainly TV Shows. I knew we were on a tight budget when it came to moving. There were just so many boxes we could fit to move me. So I went to this place in the mall. I think it was a Suncoast but they gave me money for the used DVDs that I had. I cashed in on all my DVDs and only kept a few. I had enough from them to pay off a credit card but now I wish I had kept every last one of them because now I have to buy it all back. I had over 200 DVDs but now I only have about 30 and I have to rebuild again.

PHMustang2000

Like the blu-ray Disney titles that have that extra DVD. I usually just give her the extra DVD Disc but she always replies with "Is that all you buy is Disney Movies"

I am like no I buy others too.

I usually buy movies that I like but down the road if there is nothing on TV and my family wants to watch a movie, I could just drag them to my collection and we can pick a movie to watch.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

That's why I don't sell any of my stuff anymore unless it's a dupe. I did it enough as a kid with games and music and then having to buy the stuff again. Complete waste of money.

If I buy stuff now, it's because I know I want, and I'll watch it a few times, or it's stuff that I want to watch but can't find for rent and possibly go OOP quickly and go up to a price I wouldn't want to pay.

How else could I reacquire a fine title such as Glue Sniffin' Hillbillies or Devil Doll From Hell? Those aren't something easily picked up at your local video store.

For something like an action movie, it's easier to either just rent it or wait a couple months and buy it for cheaper than a rental from Best Buy and then just give it away to a friend knowing you can always borrow it later on.

DVD Polizei

Keep the movies, toss the cases they are in. In other words, slim down your movie collection...without slimming down your movie count.

If you could keep your entire 3K+ movies in a 5ft wide and 7ft high shelving unit, would you keep those movies still? So, is it a space issue or are you irritated with the movies you don't watch.

Demonmoon68

Two things...

First i manage a video store, DONT RENT!!! With blockbuster probibly going under and movie gallery/hollywood video being one of the only options now to rent one title on average in the US is 4-5dollars. on top of that, you are spending money on gas, not to mention if you are one day late add on another 4-5 dollars. Just on what you would spend for one rental you could buy the movie on amazon or a really good deal found on here and put it in a dvd binder or even those cd/dvd spools and keep it forever so just incase your not spending even more to rent it again 15 years down the road.

With that said, I am having a tough time believeing that if you are a true movie collector you only watch a movie once???? i have seen most movies 2-5 times that i own, even the movies i hate and wish i didnt own like lord of the rings trilogy and Elf. I just had a baby so i know i will want to show her the movies again someday, so there is at least one more time. I advise finding new fun ways to approach your collection, give it life and start watching every movie again and dont skip over one just because you have seen it a million times. i posted this in another thread but my wife and i put letters on a piece of paper and pull them out of a hat and watch that entire row of movies/tv shows.

If you really want to slim down your collection think about why, if size then throw away cases and put in sleeves, if its because you are giving up on film then give them to friends your loseing so much money selling them that its kind of like walking around asking people to grab your wallet and not only take money from you but also steal away an old friend from my past. or give them to a school, our schools need some good movies i mean how many times can the kids watch remember the titans and hotel rawanda over and over again in class. haha.

JZ1276

First thing i did when weeding out my collection was removing all tv shows that were full frame. Secondly, I removed all movies that were full frame or non anamorphic. Of course I still wanted to be able to watch them if I wanted to, so I "stored" them on one of my hard drives and got rid of all the discs.

septimus

This is a good one and is definitely something that goes through my head from time to time as I'm flipping through the channels.

jjcool

Just curious why you picked that particular aspect ratio to remove. I can think of a couple of movies and tv shows that are in full frame, that I would never part with.

JZ1276

I didnt part with all of them. I did keep Oz, Tales from the Crypt, and Dream On which are favs of mine. However, I had many TV shows from the 70's and 80's which I did not think were worth keeping.

RagingBull80

When I get the urge to slim down the collection I look and see what movies don't fit. There are lots of movies that I own that are completely different whether it be tone or whatever, but if something feels out of place I will get rid of it. If I look and say, "why do I own that?" I rid myslef of it.

Speaking of...

jjcool

But did you part with the ones you parted with because you didnt like the shows/movies or because they happened to be shot full frame?

bsmith

Store the cases in a box in the attic but don't throw them away. The cases and inserts are needed if you ever want to sell a title.

jjcool

That's what I did for the exact reason. Honestly, I dont see myself selling anything, but I like to have that option.

man*machine

I don't have an attic.

Trevor

Everyone has a friend or family member with a basement or attic though.

kristina

Personaly, I tend to sell TV show sets... for instance I just sold most of my Two and A Half Men DVD's because I'd already been sucked into watching all the episodes so many times in reruns... Whereas, a TV show like Spin City... yeah I watched the dvd set but I found myself not being interested in it enough to keep track of the storyline or of which episodes I'd already watched.
So I would go ahead and get rid of any movies that you're either sick to death of... and/or movies that you really feel no personal connection to.

kristina

[QUOTE=orangerunner;9372077]My rule of thumb about weeding out DVDs that I no longer want is easy;

It's the TV channel flipping test. It doesn't apply to all films necessarily but it's a good barometer of what you really like and what you're neutral about.

I ask myself, if I were watching TV and just flipping aimlessly through the channels and come across a film that I have in my collection, would I stop flipping and watch the movie or continue flipping & find something else to watch?

If I stop and watch it, it's something I will want to hang onto.

QUOTE]

You're so right. I diden't even think of that when replying to the original author's post.

Scorpio

Don't give in!

GenPion