True to my word, last night I went over the video shelves and got rid of all the commercial titles that were available via Netflix streaming...except the X-Files. Which take up a whole shelf. GAH
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1) We are long-lost soul mates for sure. I kind of love your VHS discussion of late. I threw away a lot of tapes last year, but have also kept a great deal. But, I also still watch them on occasion
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In case you were still curious, I finally asked my mom, but she doesn't have it. I think she was only sorry because she wanted to be able to sell it for an inflated price, too.
got rid of all the commercial titles that were available via Netflix streaming
Woo hoo! Good for you! (I have not regretted once anything I got rid of, hope it is the same for you.)
And, as a side note on the other entry, I have never streamed or used Hulu - I'm a Netflix gal all the way - so I couldn't give you details, I've just seen other people do it.
++++ on the card catalog. (Even more adorable is the fact that you still HAVE the index cards.)
Netflix streaming -- excellent idea, I should check that. I'm newly back in CT, and your posts have inspired me to poke a bit at my own collection. Maybe I should put my impressions in my own post, since I never seem to get myself organized to post about anything but manga (and refrigerators!) these days.
X-Files sounds like an excellent candidate for rebuying on DVD. Have you checked sites like Deep Discount for it yet? Or are you too attached to the physical tapes, for some sentimental reason? (I feel this way about a set of videotapes I have of Babylon 5 Season 1, back from taped-off-TV days, which had been dubbed so many times it was hard to tell the difference between Delenn and G'Kar. I have long since bought the entire series on DVD at great expense, but I have such sentimental attachment to these awful dubs -- it's a long story -- that I have had a hard time getting rid of them.)
Oh, do. I think decluttering choices -- or even just the thought process -- offer interesting insight. And inspiration.
X-Files sounds like an excellent candidate for rebuying on DVD.
You know, it does (at least, my inability to surrender the tapes indicates it is)...except I never watch the tapes. It's available via Netflix streaming, and I never watch it that way. As W_10_00 commented on my last decluttering post: "This has made me question a lot of my purchasing practices." Do I really need to own these things? Or is it the crazy, cautious, keep-the-power-cord me making these decisions?
I have mixed feelings about the whole "I never watch X" reasoning, because the truth is that I rarely watch any of my DVDs. But, every once in a while, they come in handy. I find that I like to share DVDs more than I like to watch them alone, so I might show one of them when a friend is visiting who hasn't seen it. Or I take the collection to the beach to share with my family (those poor people have been made to watch Day After Tomorrow so many times, I can't even tell you). Or sometimes something comes on cable, and I realize I'd rather watch my own commercial-free DVD than the TV version, so I pull out the DVD. (I really need to rebuy Titanic on DVD for this very purpose
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Yeah, I am sort of the same way with DVDs (only the showing to other people part doesn't happen that often for me). But there are a lot of DVDs I would never, ever get rid of, even if I never watch the show again, because there is some part of me that needs to have immediate access to it JUST IN CASE. (A lot of my anime DVDs fall into this category...) And sometimes I do get in the mood to marathon an old show, in which case I'm really glad to have my DVDs.
re: mangaroo and X-Files - sounds like me and Star Trek TNG, which is one of my favorite shows ever, but I don't have it on DVD. I've always meant to buy it, but it's kind of a big investment, and it's always on TV and plus I have most of my favorite episodes on tape (recorded from TV, not commercial). But it's one of my favorite shows ever, so I feel like I SHOULD own it properly. I even check Amazon once in a while to see how much it costs. (Currently, ~$300.) What I really need to do, I guess, is stop looking at the cost of the whole series, and just buy a season box set once in a
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I think I am, too.
(I am sort of wondering, now, if my mom has that Nora Roberts book, because she has like every Nora Roberts book ever published.)
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Woo hoo! Good for you! (I have not regretted once anything I got rid of, hope it is the same for you.)
And, as a side note on the other entry, I have never streamed or used Hulu - I'm a Netflix gal all the way - so I couldn't give you details, I've just seen other people do it.
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Netflix streaming -- excellent idea, I should check that. I'm newly back in CT, and your posts have inspired me to poke a bit at my own collection. Maybe I should put my impressions in my own post, since I never seem to get myself organized to post about anything but manga (and refrigerators!) these days.
X-Files sounds like an excellent candidate for rebuying on DVD. Have you checked sites like Deep Discount for it yet? Or are you too attached to the physical tapes, for some sentimental reason? (I feel this way about a set of videotapes I have of Babylon 5 Season 1, back from taped-off-TV days, which had been dubbed so many times it was hard to tell the difference between Delenn and G'Kar. I have long since bought the entire series on DVD at great expense, but I have such sentimental attachment to these awful dubs -- it's a long story -- that I have had a hard time getting rid of them.)
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Oh, do. I think decluttering choices -- or even just the thought process -- offer interesting insight. And inspiration.
X-Files sounds like an excellent candidate for rebuying on DVD.
You know, it does (at least, my inability to surrender the tapes indicates it is)...except I never watch the tapes. It's available via Netflix streaming, and I never watch it that way. As W_10_00 commented on my last decluttering post: "This has made me question a lot of my purchasing practices." Do I really need to own these things? Or is it the crazy, cautious, keep-the-power-cord me making these decisions?
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re: mangaroo and X-Files - sounds like me and Star Trek TNG, which is one of my favorite shows ever, but I don't have it on DVD. I've always meant to buy it, but it's kind of a big investment, and it's always on TV and plus I have most of my favorite episodes on tape (recorded from TV, not commercial). But it's one of my favorite shows ever, so I feel like I SHOULD own it properly. I even check Amazon once in a while to see how much it costs. (Currently, ~$300.) What I really need to do, I guess, is stop looking at the cost of the whole series, and just buy a season box set once in a ( ... )
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