so, definitely making some progress with this one—thanks to super late night trips to walmart’s $5 bins. it’s kinda nice because the movies that they have for $5 at wally’s are just movies that we used to watch in our teens, so, yes, we’re not really all that up to date on our new movies besides seeing them in theatres, but we’re catching up on our old favorites. my favorite find so far was a two-fer, Ghostbusters 1 and 2 with a booklet thingy for $9. LOVE IT! and we realize that for the $25 we’d spend for a brand-new just out movie, we could find 5 really cool old movies, for the same price (and if we’re really lucky, the double-deals like Ghostbusters!).
How to build my dvd collection
How I did it: Every time my novio and I would get paid, we would make a limit, like, $25 that we were allowed to spend on movies. Having been without cable or internet for just over a year (that's what we get for being poor college students), we were already watching the same movies over and over, and then realized that instead of going out to buy the newest movies just out for $25 anyway, we could go to Walmart and buy five $5 movies that had been out for a while. Yes, there are some that you've never heard of, and ones that you should never buy, but sometimes, you really catch some great movies that you forgot about and miss seeing, and some movies that you're willing to try $5 on for the first time. I don't really mean to sell Walmart, but that's just worked for us and our budget.
Lessons & tips: keep your eyes and ears open for movie sales. i think you can even go into video rental stores, and you don't need a membership to buy movies on sale.
Resources: Walmart. Internet.
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DVD’s – 104
Sex and the City seasons – 6
Supernatural Seasons – 2
Naruto Seasons – 8
Before 2009 I hope to have the third season of Supernatual, the ninth season of Naruto, and a total of 150 DVD’s. (Not counting T.V. shows).
my boyfriend’s brother had a crazy awesome collection of which most of the brothers (girlfriends included) borrow endlessly from, but i’d really like to just build my collection.
47] Black Dahlia
48] 300
49] Domino
50] Brokeback Mountain
51] Wedding Crashers
52] Wicker Park
53] Wayne’s World 1
54] Wayne’s World 2
55] A Goofy Movie
56] Step Up
57] Kiss The Girls
58] Along Came A Spider
59] Double Jeopardy
60] A Lot Like Love
61] Austin Powers 2
62] Peter Pan
63] House On Haunted Hill
64] Don’t Look In The Basement
I bought the following:
The Departed
Babel
Walk the Line
Blood Diamond
Pretty good, eh?
39] Scarface
40] The Godfather
41] Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
42] The Cat In The Hat
43] The Notebook
44] Madagascar
45] Diary Of A Mad Black Woman
46] Wedding Crashers
1] Prime
2] Fun with Dick and Jane
3] Madea’s Family Reunion (the play)
4] Moulin Rouge
5] Goldmember
6] Troy
7] 13 Going on 30
8] Mean Girls
9] Drop Dead Fred
10] Matilda
11] Uptown Girls
12] Superstar
13] 13 Ghosts
14] 50 First Dates
15] Jeepers Creepers
16] Waiting To Exhale
17] Big Daddy
18] Drop Dead Gorgeous
19] Centerstage
20] Girl, Interrupted
21] Closer
22] Brokedown Palace
23] Pitch Black
24] The Others
25] Monsters Inc
26] Collateral Damage
27] Hostel
28] Breakin All The Rules
29] Sleepy Hollow
30] Cruel Intentions 2
31] Tomcats
...and the three I bought last night
32] The Holiday
33] Elf
34] Match Point
My goal is 100 movies.
*Exorcism of Emily Rose
*The Grudge
*Lamb of God (Killadelphia)
*Lord of War
*Lord of the Rings Trilogy
*Metal Blade Records (Digital Video Destruction)
I’ve moved out and it’s time to stop mooching off my family’s small DVD collection. My collection has grown about 8 DVDs since christmas. I recieved lady and the tramp, amelie, and twister for christmas. Afterwards I bought the mighty ducks trilogy, high fidelity, and disney’s robin hood with my christmas money. overall I have about 20 DVDS of my own, and a few I might steal from my family when they aren’t looking, but I have a huge list of movies I need to buy. I better get working on that I guess. Goodbye money…





