Friday, September 11, 2009

Project DVD

Before we moved in to my parents house we had a grand plan of several projects that we could undertake. I am proud to say that we have officially started project DVD ... the first of a possible many (depending on how long we stay). This project involves gathering all the DVDs in the house, organizing them by certain categories, alphabetizing them, and then cataloging all the movies so we can have a printed list ... we really need one when there's this many movies! I'm talking about at least 1,000 DVDs here. So far, we pulled all the movies out that we could find during halftime of the Utah vs. Utah State football game last week and organized them alphabetically.


you can see the FB game in the background :) These are the stacks we made mostly during half time and a little into the game ... I also need to thank Steve-O for his help. He was watching the game with us and got drafted as a helper in our project. Luckily he was more than willing :)

Since then we decided to make a Disney/cartoon category, a holiday movie category, an LDS category and a TV show category. We have gone through and alphabetized all those categories and have them separated and we have catalogued all the main DVDs (not in a special category). It may not sound like much, but this is a huge project! We're coming up with ideas of where to put them ... we kinda like the idea of making shelves along one wall and having them all out where you can see them instead of in little cabinets so that you have to go through 10 different places before you find what you're looking for. In the long run the decision is up to Mumsy, so we're just hopeing she'll be on the same page with us. Oh, and I forgot to mention the part we haven't even started yet ... we have at least as many DVDs in edited versions that we're going to do completely separately. We are still finding movies every now and then that we have to add into our stacks and catalogue, but we've done well so far. Here's where it's at now. Much more organized. Now we just need the finished product!

3 comments:

ClaysJenna said...

are those your guys' dvds or your parents dvds? Clay and I did something similar a while ago. It takes a while at first but once its done its SO much nicer! Good luck!

Em said...

I love it! That looks like a huge project but I'm sure it will feel so good to have it done!

Preston and Angie said...

Yeah, these are definitely my parents DVDs ... we don't have very many of our own. But why would we buy any when my parents have them all? :D