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It worked out great! Paid about $180 for a 12-hour rental of a 10' truck & mileage, not including gas.

A friend of mine had his vacation to Seattle cancelled because of COVID-19, so he offered to help me. Helped pack up & move 90% of my apartment, including most of my film collection in a single drive.

Still waiting for internet to be installed on Friday, so I haven't completely moved in yet. Have been using my apartment's internet for virtual teaching for my campus.

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Frankly, I don’t mind giving everything away. I don’t miss at all. Kept a few, but that it. All blu and digital from now on. Just wish I had more room for blus. I’m gonna have to buy a bin for blus and that will start bad trend and I’ll never see em again...

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The media hoarders will have the last laugh when Internet service goes down in our new quarantine age.

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If everything comes down to that, there's probably much more serious societal/political/etc ... problems going on, than the absence of tv shows and movies.

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If that happens, there are bigger issues at hand over watching Harry Potter 5.

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Maybe, but it’s not like we can do anything about it.

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I forgot I owned Outbreak on Blu-ray and watched it before. I thought it was not in my collection.

I can't find Air Force One on Blu-ray though I think I bought it before.

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Good luck selling them or making close to a profit

If there are stuff you owned but hate now or don't want to watch again then get rid of them.

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If I were him I would keep them since it probably took a while to build that and maybe it could be converted to a museum.

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look for a double pack with something. i think this came in a double or triple pack that i got...

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As you mentioned, selling off those mass-produced titles is rough. For some of the titles I don't want to watch anymore, I either give them to friends who might want them or toss them outright.

In house news, it took me about a week to unpack my collection into the room that they will live in. It only took me a long while because I kept getting discouraged unpacking the boxes. I have clinical OCD and the friend that helped me pack mixed up all of the boxes. I plowed through it and just put everything on the shelves in some semblance of order.

The sad part is that two (old) small/medium shelves that I had broke apart during the move. With Ikea closed at the moment due to COVID-19, I'll wait for a bit to get more Billy Bookcases. For now the films that used to sit on those shelves are sitting on the floor of the room.

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Always expect a few things to get roughed up in a big move. It's just the nature of the beast.

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For sure. The shelves literally imploded. They were cheap, so I should have known after 4-8 years that would have happened if I moved them from their locations.

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Huh? My response was to Gizmo’s comment that if there’s bigger issues going on, we won’t be worrying about our physical media.

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sometimes when you hang on to them and then they go OOP= boom profit!

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When you buy a movie again since you don't want to put in the time to look for it if you already have it then it is a problem :lol:


I had a word document on my computer where I listed all the Blu-ray and DVDs but once I got a new computer I lost that file or the one I had saved was not up to date.

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Overwhelmed? Yes.
Ashamed? No.
I have two shelving units full, including big boxes on the tops, and one shelf of a smaller shelf.
Back in the days of deals I got a lot of great deals, and I used to pick up tons of "Complete Series" for pretty good prices.
Ironically, going digital/streaming made it worse.
When I had cable/satellite, I'd occasionally watch some stuff on cable, but mostly stuff from disc or Netflix.
When I cut the cord, I relied on disk and video games.
When I cut the cord again and went fully into streaming, that was the straw that broke the back - even just the stuff I've got on Vudu and access to on Hulu, combined with my disks (that I still occasionally buy, maybe eight or ten a year), have gotten overwhelming.
I do still track inventory, purchases, and watches in DVD Profiler.

I sold a bunch of stuff off over the last few years, when it was easier to sell and they were worth something, but out of every batch I sold I think there's at least one title I wish I had that's impossible to get now. There are some that I won't ever watch again and I donate a couple each time I go to the thrift store.

So, overwhelmed. Not ashamed - I'm not a hoarder, I had the money to buy them, it was over the course of more than a decade, and they were things I wanted at the time. Just overwhelmed, in terms of both "how will I ever be able watch all these", and "how do I decide what to watch".