Ash Ketchum

Hmmm...now where's that Gift Shop Supply Catalog I discarded because I thought I'd never need it?

Trevor

It's actually pretty awesome the more I think about it. I'll take off the stickers obviously, it was used to sell women's casual shoes (not sure why the hospital had them here...).

It's fairly sturdy plastic, but not too heavy. The slots aren't tall enough to hold DVDs standing up, but would work on their shorter side. So I'll probably use it for CDs. I think each slot holds 5 CDs, so 15 per vestibule, x8, x4 sides, = 480 CDs. It seems like it will hold that weight, but I'll have to be careful, as I guess it was made for pretty light shoes.

Ash Ketchum

Keep us posted on how it works out.

MovieMassacre

I do. But if the DVD does have a decent feature on it that the BD does not I'll of course keep the DVD.

MovieMassacre

I used to hate doing that as well. But now what I do is let my new titles pile up for a month and then the first weekend of every month I just put in a good movie and spends few hours on a Saturday or Sunday adding the new titles to the collection. By the time the film is over I'm usually finished.

MovieMassacre

Ughh I hate when they are too big to fit in the case! I have a tone of them rubber-banded together in the closet of my media room.

MovieMassacre

As of right now I have my VHS, DVDs, BD, HD-DVDs, and CD/DVD combos are all together in alphabetical order on Atlantic book shelves. I agree that the look of this isn't the most appealing mostly due to the VHS being so sunken in. The BDs/HD-DVD next to the DVDs doesn't look too bad at all. But I just hate when something like my 28 Days Later BD isn't next to my 28 Week Later DVD, or my Fright Night DVD isn't next to my Fright Night 2 VHS, and so on... So it might not look the prettiest but it just feels right to me.

bse

It is amazing how quick my mind changes on organizing my films, I was always into, up until recently - displaying the entire collection. Sadly since I moved from a house with a large amount of space into an apartment, my collection started to get in the way of things. I've sold hundreds of DVDs and blu-rays over the last 2 months and am continuing to do so now. I've gotten my collection down to 3 large shelves (with overflow stacked on top) that take up about a third of the longest wall in the apartment, I would love to trim it down to just 2 shelves and I continue to sell things daily.

The shelving I got lucky with, I found someone on Craigslist selling them (turned out to be a Canadian Diplomat living in a huge mansion on a golf course) - I was able to get them for really cheap and they fit DVDs perfectly.

I plan on posting a picture sometime next week, I want to track my effort to slim down my collection even further.

More people should post up their collection, Trevor, we have been waiting to see what you are working on for months.

Trevor

I've posted a couple pics of part of my collection, but my place looks too similar to a Hoarders episode right now to really show anyone. Well, not quite that bad, but I see the potential to get my 15 minutes that way.

I rarely make actual progress on any serious organizing efforts, it's all just talk. But 2011 will be different!

Pizza

This week on a very special episode of Hoarders. . .Trevor, from DVDTALK.com.

Do it! We'll all watch. . .and take notes.

BTW that stand you found would work in my system since I store all my DVDs in slim CD jewel cases. And, you'd double the number at least of what would fit. Still hard to tell if that stand is sturdy enough.

SterlingBen

Looks to be just the right size to where you could cut up VHs cases and glue them on where the make-up ads are.

Defiantly be sure to clean it well though, with all those sickies touching it.

mike07

How do you find anything? I can't imagine using slim CD jewel cases for DVDs, it seems like you wouldn't be able to read the title without pulling the case out. Do you have any pics? I'm constantly looking for new ways to maximize my space.

SethDLH

Where do you sell your stuff? I'd love to take a look at a list of stuff you're dumping

bse

I just sold the bulk of it on Amazon and a few on ebay, next time I post a large number of DVDS, I will have to let everyone know.

Trevor

I'll make sure I have some Blossom DVDs on display as they enter my condo and give that "very special episode" tagline.
Good idea! I don't have any VHS really, but could (gasp!) cut up some slipcovers and glue them there.
I use slim DVD cases for much of my collection, and they read just fine, so I imagine slim CD cases would work as well.

Travis McClain

Don't know what slim CD cases you're using, but I have no idea how you'd go about putting labels on the spines of the ones I have. Unlike slim DVD cases, there's no accommodation for wraparound inserts.

Trevor

Not me. I use slim DVD cases. But I imagine Pizza just creates custom labels.

Pizza

Yes, you have to pull a few cases out but I have absolutely no problems finding a title quickly and it's worth the space it saves. You could set it up different ways but for me, I break it down to genres. For any genre, such as Disney, that is too large to search through at a glance I use CD dividers that are cut in half (http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Divider-Section-Separators-Dividers/dp/B000RUQDV8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1291512674&sr=8-3) that act as tabs and indicate the first letter in the title, such as ABC.

xage

My OCD Collecting perhaps is more into Collect All Possible Versions there is in US/Canada release.

The latest one that I'm planning to obtain would be All Inception Blu-ray Exclusives this coming Tuesday.

Cardsfan111

Wow, xage! Those pictures are impressive...and a little scary at the same time.

Travis McClain

onebyone

Xage is the king of OCD collecting. I always love seeing his pictures.

The rest of us are just pretenders.

whotony

Xage did you order the Inception Warner exclusive case?

Do you have these in a display or just box them away?

mike07

Pretty impressive and neat, especially with different DVD case styles. And cheaper than DVD binders, or so I would think. I currently have enough space but if I ever run out or have to move to a smaller place I wouldn't be surprised if I used this storage technique.

What do you do with the original cases and artwork?

Pizza

I used to store all the cases in the basement. One day I realized that I'll never switch back (I really hate DVD cases) and threw out the cases bit by bit. I've saved the inserts and artwork.

Yes, I know the idea of throwing out the cases is upsetting to many here and, being a collector, it did feel odd at first. But DVD prices have been dropping so it's not like I'd get much for them anyway and, with that, I don't collect movies just to sell them off. It's the price for added space and it's well worth it for me.