DVD’s: HANDLED.

Thanks for all of your comments about my mess under the TV. I followed all the advice…except for putting a lock on the door. It is wonderful to see what we actually have. No need for Netflix yet. The wire cubes hold home movies, some workout tapes, some kids’ stuff, and a few movies that we will toss as soon as we watch. They are dark, but the black cases to the right are the DVD binders that now house our many children’s DVD’s and several seasons of TV shows and some boxed movie sets. The DVD’s along the top of the cubes and along the bottom left have never been watched. I have them there in alphabetical order. We don’t hang on to movies after we watch them, unless we REALLY love them (like, for some reason, the way Stew LOVES “The Life Aquatic), so I’m not putting those in binders unless they are really good.

I counted about 200 DVD’s, but that was a low number because a lot of them were 2-disc sets and more. Stewart and I do not buy these movies/tv shows. They are given to us as gifts, sent to me as screeners because I belong to a professional Hollywood association, or given to me by a friend who works at a movie studio. Sometimes I get really good titles, but sometimes there’s a clunker or two thrown in there.

It’s amazing how much space all the fancy packaging takes up. I filled two kitchen garbage bags with the DVD covers, cases, boxes, and sleeves. The project took me most of the day, including the trips to Target and Best Buy. I’m exhausted, but I’m now sort of watching “The Last King of Scotland” with Stew. So far it’s sweaty and fraught with tension. I think I’ll post reviews of all these movies as we watch them. I know you just can’t wait to see what I think of “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.”