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myLot reputation of 89/100. crimsonladybug (2026)   ranked 70 out of 11,478 in watching movies12 months ago

I just got my email from Amazon telling me pre-ordered copy of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. Which is the day it's released but this way it just appears on my doorstep and I don't have to go anywhere to get it happy

I have this compulsion to spend money. I am not big on shopping, exactly, but I feel like I've wasted my time if I go into a store and come out without buying SOMETHING. So, I spend a lot of time sifting through the $5 DVD bin at WalMart and I have come out with some real gems.

I just counted all the movies in my collection (not counting the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the first season of Brotherhood) and I have 65 total.

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 97/100. nowment (1185)   ranked 170 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

I haven't counted out how many dvd's I own I do have a great many YES still have the videos. I tended to into blockbuster when they would have their 3 for ten dollar special and get movies.

I used to go to movies once a week or once every other week, but getting them from blockbuster the way I did, meant that I could spend less on a movie that not only I could see but so could others, then I did for going to the movies.

Then like I would go to the discount sections in the various stores walmart included.

Funds got much tighter in recent years so dvd collection is not as large as video is, but I did start to catalog the movies I have, and put them in list form I used excel so I could add as needed and they are in alphabetical order and I literally have hundreds of movies. First column has movie title, second has V or D for video or dvd the next column has the genre. ie Com/ comedy, Hor/ horror Dis/ Disney

LOL I use Dis for animated films even though some are by Bluth or Bass Rankin

I am a big fan of movies and always like to rewatch favorites I have gotten used to being able to grab what ever movie I am in the mood for so I got spoild, the problem is as I said the last 4 years I haven't got as many as I used to.

I still have quite a few.

Another tip for adding to movie collection, is ebay sometimes you can a movie for only a couple of dollars, the cheapest dvd I had gotten was 98 cents with free shipping so total cost was 98 cents for an old classic

LOL I can be patient, I am not a shopaholic, nor do I need to compete I set a limit on what I am willing to bid on anything before I even open ebay up and on how many items I might consider bidding on etc so that I do not go over board and spend money I just don't have.

It also means that sometimes I wait for movies released like you getting the new one Nick and Norah's but there are not that many newer movies I really want badly enough to pay a lot of money for.


myLot reputation of 89/100. crimsonladybug (2026)   ranked 70 out of 11,478 in watching movies  12 months ago

I have a similar cataloging system and I also still have some VHS tapes.... happy I haven't cataloged them but my DVDs I do have in a spreadsheet with genres and then a whole separate column where I put the genre followed by the first word of the title of the movie so they are alphabetized within the genre, or I can alphabetize the entire list. lol


myLot reputation of 97/100. nowment (1185)   ranked 170 out of 11,478 in watching movies  12 months ago

You can put the whole sheet in alphabetical order.

It is easy enough you select the rows and columns that are filled in, and then do data sort,

The data sort instead of just clicking on the icon on the menu go into format

And when it askes you to sort it wil give you the option of chosing what order you want to put them in by column.

Example,

Say column A is the title of movie, column b is the genre column c may list something else that is important to you, could be whether or not it is vhs or date, or even a cast member.

Then since you have the list, the data sort by selecting all the columns and rows like that will keep the rows in order, yet sort them by what ever order you want.


You can sort it any way you want to.

I mean one way I have sorted it is because I have my list Yours, Mine and Ours and I have it then listed by year, so that I have both the Renee Russo version and the Lucille Ball version.

At one point I wanted to keep two lists, one for dvd's and one for vhs, what I did was make two pages, but then I would get mixed up looking for things.

So I actually have my list in three pages, one that is the dvd list, one that is the vhs list and one that is combined.

LOL well actually I have a fourth page for my wish list LOL

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2. myLot reputation of 87/100. oldmanhorrorfan (397)   ranked 210 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

I own maybe 20 or so DVDs. I have bought a lot but I have kids, and they really don't know how to take care of movies. Usually wind up scratched up and won't play anymore. In my place a DVD's life span is usually a little less than a month. We do got a lot of VHS tapes lying around.
I'm not one of those guys that go out to buy DVDs, anyways. I'll watch a movie only so many times. If I feel the hankering to see a movie I'll go out to the movie store and rent it.

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3. myLot reputation of 98/100. snowcat46 (1112)   ranked 273 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

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4. myLot reputation of 41/100. jd107nette (391)   ranked 6,231 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

We have a lot of DVDs! Especially that I'm not the only one who's buying!
From Movies to different series and animes that me and my siblings are fond of.
I haven't counted them yet either... But ever since we watched through youtube and by reading mangas online, our collection did not multiply anymore... HAHA...

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5. cd_lear (52)   ranked 9,625 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

My wife and I love buying DVDs. Almost every saturday we walk through town and will buy at least one. We've had to put up more shelves to house them all. We're on to Blu rays now, The debate we're buying a new movie now is whether its worth watching in Blu ray or not.

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6. myLot reputation of 88/100. benhilo (902)   ranked 2,882 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

I have about 1000 DVD and still growing!

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7. myLot reputation of 58/100. wallfranklin (170)   12 months ago

I don't know an exact amount, but I'd say at least 100+. I'm the same way about buying something. Why drive all the way to the store and not get anything?!? My husband hates sending me because I'll come home with 5 bags more than I should've.

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8. myLot reputation of 77/100. mscott (1751)   ranked 687 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

We have a couple hundred. Probably way too many. However, one of the local video stores went out of business and everything was blow out prices. We were getting DVDs for as little as a buck. Even the recent or newer ones got as low as 2 bucks. That and also there is a pawn shop here in town and they run specials where the disks are only 1.99. For those prices I am better off buying the movies then renting them. I think Blockbuster charges like 3.50-4.00 just to rent so why shouldn't I buy them. I can always take them to the pawn shop some day and dump them if I really need to. happy

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9. myLot reputation of 81/100. phoenix25 (1325)   ranked 1,633 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

I love Amazon. I have gotten so many movies from them. I have about 350 DVD's and about 200 movies on VHS. Me and my husband are serious movie collectors.

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10. myLot reputation of 92/100. highflyingxangel (9033)   ranked 2,649 out of 11,478 in watching movies   12 months ago

I'm not at home where I can actually count how many DVD's I have in my collection but I can tell you now I'm sure it's not as many as some people have. I think I have around 20 DVD's or so. That's only because I have all the seasons of Charmed on DVD and that is 8 seasons so that took up a lot of space. I also have several other movies on DVD but nothing huge. I'm not always a huge movie person and I'm not into movies that much, not as much as everyone else.

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