The Great DVD Purge

Hello readers,

Today I'm going to write about something that you may be familiar with - I'm going to write about DVD collections and DVD collecting. Now as a DVD blog owner it's not too surprising to know that I have a fair few DVDs of my own - I've been collecting for many years now, and I've seen my collection grow from a few select titles to some kind of unruly behemoth..

The conclusion I've come to is that I have too many DVDs. You see the other day I apparently hit another landmark with my collection - After my recent purchases from Play.com I seem to have gone past the 300 mark and into uber-collection territory. (In fact, according to DVD Aficionado I now have 310 titles and 453 discs in total). But rather than feeling pride in this achievement, I actually feel a bit guilty. A lot of them haven't been seen more than once, and I find myself forgetting if I even own films or not..

I've decided that the time may have come for a great DVD PURGE. You see where once my collection was kind of personal, it's now starting to look a bit.. well, materialistic. I think a decent DVD collection can say a lot about someone and their tastes and even be quite personal to them as well, but I'm losing this slowly but surely as it grows ever bigger.

To give you all an idea I made a kind of rough montage of my current collection. Here's the random one's dotted about my room:

And here's the main bulk:

Woooooooahs!

Now I'm not really showing off (much) here, because I really do feel that I have too many. If I can trim this down to the real essentials then maybe I can feel more pride in it. Especially now that there's so many new ways of consuming media these days - you can watch all kinds of films through those, and keep the real classics to own. I'm already a member of LoveFilm, and legal downloads are starting to come into their own too, so this is maybe the best option.

But what to do with all my excess DVDs? My real issue is laziness - With eBay I could probably sell off a great chunk of it, but I really can't be arsed.. My other suggestions so far have been to donate them to a charity shop, or to take them somewhere like Blockbusters that will sell them second hand. Has anyone ever been in this situation before? Any suggestions?

- Jimmy