Have I stayed within my allotted 1 hour a day? Hmm, probably not quite. Have I stopped hanging in front of the TV all day, absolutely!
Remember about three weeks ago, I decided I needed to do something about my TV time? And I did! The first couple of weeks I did really well, I more or less stayed within my allotted hour, some days the TV never came on, and sometimes I watched a couple of programs rather than just one. But on average, probably no more than 1 hour a day. Which was my goal!
This last week though, there’s been a slight change, and mostly because I have added another small declutter project to the mix 🙂
As you probably know, I started this year with an intention to read myself out of my bookshelves, and this have so far been a pretty successful endeavour. I though I could take a cue from this, and try a similar thing with my DVD/Blu-Ray collection.
I’ve decided to watch myself out of my movie collection. This means, I will go through my movies one after another, watch it one more time, then decide which one of these categories it falls into:
- keep – great movie will watch it again – worth being kept as a physical disk
- copy – good movie will/might watch it again – worth copying it to a PC hard drive
- toss – good to crap movie probably won’t watch it again (or know I won’t) – get rid of it
Now, I know this will play a little havoc with my TV time. But since I’m doing this with a friend, it will mostly be weekend watching, not a day to day thing 😉
Sounds like a fun project, yes?
Counting them, I probably have around 200 movies, which are movies and not series. Some of them are really old, and some are really crappy – you will probably have a laugh when you see pictures of them – so hopefully it won’t be to hard to cut down a little on my movie collection.
My biggest challenge when it comes to cutting down the amount of DVD/Blu-Rays are my series collection. Not sure how to handle those yet. You see, I have collected a few series over the years, especially sci-fi series, that I kinda would like to keep. Most of them are in CD/DVD albums, so they don’t eat all that much space. Hopefully when I get good a getting rid of movies, I can start chipping away at the series as well. We will have to get back to that…
But we were talking about movies! So far we have watched 4 movies, or rather watched 3 movies, one was so bad we couldn’t stand to watch more than the first 5 minutes 😉
Result? 3 out-the-door and 1 maaaaybe copy (probably not).
Minimalist Sometimes 
Great project for someone who is trying to break the TV Habit. No mindless drifting from channel to channel.
We’ve winnowed our collection down over the years ~ passing on movies we don’t plan to watch again to our nieces and nephews. We’re down to 35 DVDs ~ a perfect fit for our shelves. Of those, 10 are Holiday, Exercise, or Meditation DVDs.
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I WISH I was down to 35 DVD’s 🙂 I’m sure it will quite some time to get down to anything remotely close to that… I was going for maybe halving my movie collection? Over the next year…
Now my series collection… I will most likely NEVER get down to 35… Having collected several Star Trek and Stargate series, Babylon 5, Crusade, Alias, Castle, Pretender, Leverage, Person of Interest ++ u see my problem, yes? Especially since I’m kinda partial to the Star Trek series… 😉
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My goal was to get them to fit on one shelf . . . it didn’t happen in one fell sweep. I just kept whittling away at the collection. And I haven’t missed a single movie we gave away.
Good luck. Happy watching.
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I have some great DVD storage albums (slappa.com) and my goal is to get all my movies into the albums I already own, rather than how it is today…. me filling up a whole drawer in addition to my albums.. I’m sure I won’t really miss any movies either when I’m done…
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I did the same thing you are doing. I watched, or for some attempted to watch, my movie collection. I was left with a handful I wanted to hold on to but to save on space I took all the movies (and my CD collection) and put them in paper sleeves. Now the two collections fit nicely in a CD box from Ikea. What used to take up a couple shelves on my huge bookcase is now the size of a shoebox. Of course to make finding what I want easier (and because I am slightly OCD) I alphabetized them. 😉
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I’ve done a similar thing to save space. Years ago I got my hands on the best CD/DVD cases ever (kind of expensive but you can almost drive a truck over them they are that solid 😉 ) . The ones I have hold 40 DVDs with sleeve each or 98 CDs with sleeve. And I have several. If you want to have a look you can find them on slappa.com. I haven’t alphabetized them, but sorted them by genre… so I’m a little like u 😉
My problem now is that my collection is spilling out of my cases and into a big (big) drawer… so my goal is to get back to only using my cases and hopefully using less than the cases I have, since a couple is worn so much that I wouldn’t mind “loosing” them… 😉
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NO!!! You got rid of Chuck, and Tom???? I’m crying here!
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Told you… Old, old movies 😉
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