OneAndOneIs2

That's how many DVDs we have.

Another way of looking at it: We have four shelves of DVDs.

And you know, those boxes that DVDs come in are all very well, and they do their job and all. But sometime, just sometimes, it would be nice if you had some free space instead of shelf after shelf of frigging boxes.

We've run out of space again in our flat, so we've opted to make DVDs the next on our hit-list. Yesterday, I placed an order on Ebay for some ringbinders. Ringbinders that would hold plastic wallets that could hold 8 discs, four on a side. 400 per folder.

They arrived this morning, while I was in the shower. We just finished removing all the discs from the boxes and putting them all into a folder.

I had already alphabetised our DVD collection a long time ago, so it was no problem to put the discs in order so we'd be able to find them when they weren't all on easy view in the bookshelf.

And it's amazing just how little space DVDs have to occupy when you aren't obsessed with keeping the packaging. Over four shelves have been condensed into a single folder that can be stuck out of the way somewhere.

Obviously, the ideal would be cheap terabyte hard drives that we could put in our Myth box and store the DVDs on virtually. But lacking any of those, just dispensing with the boxes will do.

Now we just have to figure out where to put those boxes. Hmm... there's some empty bookshelves we could store them on. . .