Organization 101 - DVD's/Games

Today I am going to show you how I astonishingly consolidated our entire DVD/Video Game collection [which consisted of a 4 shelf DVD rack which was stashed away in the closet... which has recently been turned into a storage haven for our Office] into a small, simple, white [DVD] storage box.

Here is what we started with. I had bought this DVD shelf about 5yrs ago because at the time we had at least 50 more DVD's than what you see in that picture. Over the years of course, in my attempts at organizing, we went through our collection and donated the DVD's we knew for sure we would never watch again, even if we wanted to, we more than likely wouldn't watch those particular DVD's, and we kept the ones that we would [most likely] watch again.

Que in the Space Saver. A simple, white storage box.

The first half of the box is sectioned off for movies. The card in the front is an inventory of the movies we have [also in the order they are placed inside the box] and also color coded by which type of movie...

For example-

Children's movies will be labeled in Purple. As you can see we have a lack of childrens movies. You would think we deprive our son from watching some good ol' Disney... however we have Netflix for our XBox and he watches a lot of childrens movies on that.

First up- Milo and Otis [You cannot have a childrens collection of movies without having Milo and Otis. It's just not humanly possible]. I printed off the labels and taped them to thick card-stock [for durability].

...On a curious Cat and a Pug nose pup.... Ooops. Sorry... got a little carried away there.

Movies are in order by the way they are shown on the inventory. TV Series are located behind all of the movies, in order, by season.

In the back is where the XBox games are located.

Same inventory concept as the movies. In order by color code.

For example- First up we have the LEGO's series games [love those!]. The first one is Indiana Jones...

And there it is behind the sleeve. I have also put the games in order for which they were released by date.

So there, in a nut shell, you have a look into how I took our entire DVD/Game collection and shrunk it down to fit into one small box.

Hello extra Space. Goodbye ugly DVD rack.
 
-And in case your wondering what we did with all of the empty DVD/Game cases.. Well not to fret my friends. Josh and I are true recycle addicts and we did NOT throw them in the garbage, however they can't be recycled because their made with different kinds of plastics, there for making them harder to melt down.. etc etc etc. So Josh is taking some to work to use for any programs that need some cases and the rest we are going to put an ad on Craigslist and Freecycle for anyone who wants them... [for free] :)


Do you have a DVD collection that desperately needs downsizing? Is organizing your DVD's/Games a 'to-do' on your organizing goals list for 2011?