Cutting Back – Part 2

Continued from Part I

DVDs:

Before I get into the hows and whys of cutting back, first let me explain my DVD purchasing philosophy. It’s actually quite plan and simple:

I only purchase DVDs when they are on sale. Typically this means about $15.99 for newly released DVD and something in the range of $4.99 – $9.99 for a DVD that has been released for some time. At one point, Capitan Matt and I even had our own sudo pricing system. We would say something like, “We’re not paying $9.99 for a $4.99 movie.” and we would wait for it to drop to that price. We knew, based on the movie, about how much we should be paying for it (Biodome comes to mind).

Overall, the only time I ever spent more than $20 on a DVD was for a TV season or collection.

I never really got into purchasing used DVDs because I’m extremely OCD about the condition of my stuff. I didn’t want to risk getting a movie that wouldn’t play or the box was all chewed up. Plus I’ve been in too many houses where DVDs were used as coasters or teething rings. But I digress.

Now on to the whys of cutting back.

For those of you who have never seen our DVD library, it is a sight to behold. I remember purchasing my first couple of DVDs while I was waiting for my PlayStation 2 to arrive shortly after it launched back in 2000. So you figure about eight years worth of DVD purchases. Honestly, I don’t really know how many we have. I can say that I ended up having to put in three or four additional shelves in our “media” closet to hold them all.

I won’t even mention the fact that we’re beginning to run out of room in there…

So aside from having to rearrange and/or expand the closet, I decided it was time to go into a different direction. Seeing as how I have completely done away with CD purchases and media, I figured it was time to do the same with DVD collection.

Yes, you read that right. It’s time to move my collection to an all digital format.

Stay tuned for the next post when outline what it’s going to take for me to accomplish this massive undertaking.

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