I make no secret of my husband’s obsession.

I have a few of my own, so I don’t deny him his.

Unfortunately, his eats up space like you wouldn’t believe.

<—This is (one of) my bookshelves two years ago.

That is approximates 500 (or more?) movies.

Blu ray, standard, TV series, movie series, duplicates and an occasional triplicate.

You think it doesn’t look bad?

Those suckers are 2 rows deep.

At one time they’d been alphabetized, but every time hubby took out a movie, alphabetizing went right out the window.  New movies were bought and we had nowhere left to put them.  We had movies he forgot about because they were hidden in the back.

Our books were pretty much the same.

Out of control.

Fed up, and desperate, I took myself into the depths of Amazon.  I knew what I wanted. I was a matter of finding it and balancing the cost vs. the reward.

I finally decided the cost was worth it for the final reward.

i.e. Being organized.

Still, in 2012 I used caution. I only bought about half of what we needed. Just in case–a) they didn’t work or b) we hated them.

Well, it’s now 2 years later.  In 2012 I bought more, plus blank pages.

What did I use?  The Bellagio Italia in Brown (Pro-tip, buying them 3 at a time is cheaper in the long run than by 1, 2 or 6….).  Last year I bought 9, this year I bought 9 more, plus 6 packs of the refill pages.

What else did we do?  Well, we thinned out some duplicate movies (but not all, I can’t tell you how many versions of Star Wars we have…okay, I can. It’s 5).  We thinned out books (namely I thinned out books because I rarely re-read anything).  We took them to Half-Price (w/ regret as we got next to nothing…selling to Amazon would have gotten us more $).

Movies are organized into just a few categories.

My Movies
[amazon_link id=”B002C6A6N6″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Dr. Quinn Series[/amazon_link] (also mine)
Standalone Movies
Movie Series
Standalone Movie Bonus Discs
Series Movie Bonus
TV Series
[amazon_link id=”B002M2T1UO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Shield[/amazon_link]

Some special movies/series still aren’t put away. The James Bonds b/c they aren’t ours.  The new blu-rays of the [amazon_link id=”B002I9Z8GW” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Star Trek[/amazon_link] [amazon_link id=”B001TH16DI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Movies[/amazon_link], b/c we just got them and haven’t decided if we want to take them out of their pretty cases yet.

For the first time in…well, ever…I’m becoming extremely picky about organization.  Right now I’m die-hard about the movies, but it’s seeping into the rest of the house.

The husband couldn’t be happier 😉