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We don’t buy many movies here at the Frugal Upstate household-we tend to borrow them from the library, or to rent them via our Netflix subscription. It seems wasteful to buy something that will probably only get watched a single time. (Although Yankee Bill has watched Caddy Shack, all the James Bond Movies and all the Star Trek movies more times than I can count!-We do have those on VHS)
Since most DVD’s have the title of the movie printed in full color right there on it, and you don’t need a playlist like you might for a CD, I put another DVD into the pocket meant for the CD cover, thus doubling the number of DVDs that fit in a case. Our entire collection fits in 3 cases (with room to spare).
The additional bonus is that when you are visiting a friend who doesn’t have children, going on that long car trip with the DVD player in the car, or heading to Nana’s house, you can just grab a CD wallet, stick it in your purse, diaper bag etc and you instantly have about 24 movies in a minimal amount of space to chose from when the kiddos get to rambunctious.
Now I just have to convince myself that it really is OK to throw out those empty DVD cases.
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Ooh I wonder if I can convince my husband to do this?
I did this in college, because dorm rooms are not conducive to storing lots of DVD cases (and they tend to disappear less when hidden in a CD case.) It was very convienent
My husband thought the CD case scratched the DVDs worse than individual DVD cases, so we’re back to having all the DVD cases displayed…
I do this for the girls’ computer games, and also DVDs whe we go on a trip. Because I, like you, can’t make myself throw the cases away, most of our DVDs still reside in their original homes.
Great tip, though, for someone who’s not a packrat like me!!
Great tip! Huge space saver! We do this with ds’s computer games.
Brilliant, my daughter does that with her cd’s, my brain didn’t transfer the idea to our dvd’s.
I did this with my cd collection several years ago, when I was more into spending money on music. I have about 200 cds, and they all fit into two big cd folders. It took me about 2 years to throw out the empty cases!
Glad you guys found this worthwhile! I haven’t had a problem with scratching-of course we have a rule that the kiddos aren’t allowed to take the DVDs out which probably saves them some wear and tear.
Hopefully I can catch up to FrugalBabe here and throw out the darn cases. . . .
We do this too!! I just need to do this with the kids CD’s in their bedroom. I don’t know why I didn’t think of till this post. Thanks!
You seem to have my exact TV viewing philosophy. I really don’t appreciate viewing that teaches children to be crude and ill-mannered… AND I love your idea! Thanks.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I agree with your TV viewing philosophy as well. My daughter is currently on a Veggie Tales kick and we’re just getting ready to hit our local library to check out a few more. I’m growing weary of the six Veggie Tales DVDs we actually own =) Thanks for sharing your organizational tip.
Blessings~