Bob’s Thirsty Thursdays: The Movie Collection Purge Begins

The time has finally come. While the process for moving into a Tiny House has slowed way down for the time being, the purging process is still going as strong as ever. I’ve been meticulously ripping my DVD collection to an external hard drive (I’m currently in the Ss and trucking along), and now the time has come to actually start purging what I’ve already ripped, as well as the selection of Blu-rays that haven’t been deemed worthy enough to keep. This is probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, and as silly and incredibly stupid as that sounds, it’s the goddam truth.

See, like any true movie fan, I’ve been building my movie collection for almost two decades now. I had quite the collection of VHS movies, and it hurt to get rid of those and upgrade to DVD. Since that upgrade, I’ve been collecting nothing but DVDs and (within the last 5 years), Blu-rays, building a well-rounded movie collection that I could be proud of… that my kids could (eventually) be proud of. I would spend time actually just looking at the spines of the DVDs and Blu-rays on the rack, just looking at them, and feeling an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment for owning these movies. I’ve done this for years, and now I’m saying goodbye to 90% of them. And it’s fucking hard, yo.

But, hard media for movies is going the way of hard media for music… it won’t be long when most people download their movie collection rather than buy a disc, and I’ve already started building my digital collection with a vengeance (somewhere around 150 movies and counting at this point). So needing to downsize, this is the perfect time jump on the digital bandwagon early and get rid of the hundreds of movies (DVDs and Blu-rays) that I’ve hung on to for so many years. To be honest, while it’s sad, it’s also liberating—just the act of purging stuff feels good—but it’s necessarily the most fun thing to do in the world, especially when you’re attached to stuff like movies.

I’m not selling my movies to any local used movie stores, as lately, they don’t really give you a good deal (a quarter a DVD is not cool), but instead I’m going the Craigslist route. I’m lucky that the Craigslist community in Seattle is pretty strong, so I’m hoping I’ll have luck finding the right buyers this way. My initial thought was to sell my collection as a whole, for a cool $200, all 300 movies could be yours! Great deal for the buyer and it gets rid of all my movies at once. But then I thought, who the fuck wants to drop $200 on a bunch of movies at once? An extremely select group of people, that’s who. So I decided to take a different approach, bundling 5-10 similar-genre titles together for something like $15-$20. Seems more reasonable than dropping hundreds of dollars at a time, and I end up taking home more dough for my movies (which, by the way, are fucking priceless. Seriously, if I could, I’d sell my DVDs for $10 a pop and Blu-rays for $15, but there’s no way I could ever get that much, as heartbreaking as that is).

I’m not above selling my shit to you, either. Check out the links below to the various movie bundles that I’m selling—if you’re interested, and you have Paypal, shoot me an email and I’ll make you a deal. I’d rather have my previous movie collection go to movie fans and not just some mahoo on Craigslist buying DVDs for their kid who needs a form of entertainment while living in the college dorms out of state (that’s who I sold my VHS collection to, most of which were deluxe widescreen versions and serious special editions. The guy didn’t care how epic the movies were, only that they’d entertain his college kid for cheap. I’ll always regret that sale.). For orders over $20, I’ll waive shipping fees. For orders under $20, I’ll have to add about $6 for shipping, either way… this is a fantastic deal.

As for the movies I’m keeping, I’m cataloging them in a box (haven’t locked on the perfect box yet, but I have one for the interim), in CD sleeves, separating by alphabetical spacers. Which means I’m throwing the cases, including the sleeve art, away. This somehow seems wrong to do, as part of owning movies in a collection is the packaging, but still. Tiny houses ain’t got no room for Blu-ray boxes, so out they go. All except for the Alien Quadrilogy Blu-ray set. Seriously, it’s a fucking beautifully designed and crafted box set that is just too cool to let go of, so… I’m keeping that one. But the rest of the packaging is out the door! So if anyone wants empty Blu-ray packaging for cheap, let me know!

Horror DVD Box Set Bundles

Steven Spielberg 5 DVD Set

Star Wars Episodes I, II, III DVDs

Superman Ultimate Collector’​s Edition DVD

Horror Blu-rays – 10 Blu-ray Bundle

Comic Book Movie Blu-rays 7 Pack

9 Blu-ray Action Collection

Horror Blu-ray 5 Pack

6 Blu-ray Sci-Fi Action Collection​

7 Blu-rays For You

Blu-ray TV Box Sets

4 Blu-rays 4 U

Kids DVD Collection – 11 Films / 1 Price

Shout Factory Collector’​s Edition 14 Blu-rays