Reddit reviews AmazonBasics YBB12400R2 Nylon CD/DVD Binder (400 Capacity)

If you are mostly interested in clearing room, you might as well recycle the cases and store the discs in a more compact manor, using [a case like this] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIHVMEA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_VzNdzbDKRS4K7).

Physical media isn't much of an "investment", because it's generally so cheap and easy to buy new. Since your collection sounds a bit niche/obscure, it might have some items that are less common and more sought after/valuable, but that also means there's a smaller audience for it. Might be better off selling them online if you're concerned about how much you'll get for them, even though that's not the quick and easy way.

The reasons that show homes look great is that they're very minimalistic compared to a normal home. There's no daily clutter. And that shit just ain't happening around here.

Purging unnecessary stuff did help me a lot (we also had to downsize to a much smaller space so we had had no choice).

Small ideas that may help free up space: rid yourself of physical media. We went from seven bookshelves to two. I cried. A huge part of my identity was tied to being a reader. I liked being surrounded by my "conquests" and the knowledge contained therein. I got over it by realizing that getting rid of the books doesn't erase the fact that I've read them. We only kept what was most treasured, and I consoled myself by the fact that if I felt like I made a mistake sometime in the future I could always buy another copy. It's been four years and I've only just now asked for a replacement as a Christmas gift (the Anne of Green Gables series).

I did the same for my massive DVD collection. My first longtime boyfriend and I would go to Best Buy on "dates" and buy each other movies. Even after we broke up I carried on the tradition of buying almost every movie that caught my fancy. Now with all the streaming services and cable I hardly ever watched a physical copy. I sold my DVD collection except for a few favorites. I've replaced only my Indiana Jones box set. If you don't want to get rid of things, consider getting a big disc binder. My SIL just did this (she's a huge movie hoarder- this girl still has a VHS player and tapes). She trimmed the cover pictures down to size and recycled the rest of the packaging.

For my cds, I ripped all of those to my laptop and sold the real copies. I will burn a cd if I get a hair in my butt and want to listen to it in the car.

A big issue in my home was clothes. Specifically, my husband's. He was a passive/lazy hoarder when I first met him. Had no problems living in domestic squalor. Clothes were all over his bedroom floor, in his dresser, in his bedroom closet and in the TWO other bedroom closets. He was the characterture bachelor who would buy more socks instead of doing laundry. Plus, his dad would always buy him a shirt from everywhere dad traveled, so he had like 30 shirts he never wore but felt guilty about getting rid of (those shirts actually made the big move with us. Finally donated them after trying on each one and taking a photo of the front and back). Anyway, I got so frustrated with all of these unnecessary clothes that I forced him to basically put on a fashion show. Anything that he didn't like or didn't fit correctly got put into a donation bag. I made sure his front-pleated khakis went into the bag also lol.

My own clothes are hard to give up because I don't have a lot of nice stuff. But I try to hold myself to the same standards. I'm actually due for a wardrobe purge. Anything I haven't worn in the last year needs to go. It either is too small now or I never really liked how it looked on me. Graphic tees are my kryptonite. I've started to cut the pictures off the front and only save those. I know it's wasteful (because now no one can wear it), but I'm saving them to make a quilt in the future. I just need to learn how to operate a sewing machine... 😆 But even so, the fronts take up much less room than the entire shirt.

Kid clothes are out of control. I try to have some delineation between "home clothes" and "school clothes" but everything gets beat to shit anyway so I feel like it's a losing battle. If something is stained (and I can't get it out on the first try) or torn beyond an easy repair, I toss it. Otherwise it's just taking up space. Staying on top of clothes they've grown out off is hard. I try to do a biannual audit twice a year- after Christmas and after birthday.

When it comes to papers, anything that can be done electronically should be done electronically. I also do autopay wherever I can. Staying on top of my mail has helped a lot. I go from my mailbox straight to my recycle bin. If I want to look at the grocery store circular, I do it right there. Stuff that needs to be paid gets put on my desk, stuff that needs to be filed goes into the "to be filed" bin which I do maybe once every two months. Kid papers are harder. I save important stuff like report cards, and things that come home laminated, or stuff that I can tell they've put a lot of effort into. Ditto papers and worksheets usually go straight to the recycle bin. All the gray area stuff goes into a Rubbermaid tote that I've been ignoring for a while lol.

Toys are an issue. How old are your kids? Personally I hate small, crappy toys (like happy meal stuff). I donate those to the after school program for them to put into their prize box. How attached are your kids to their toys? You might be surprised at how willing they are to donate toys to other kids. Since it's almost Christmas, you could use this as an opportunity to have a conversation about helping those less fortunate- they would be giving a gift of happiness by passing on a toy/stuffy versus "discarding it and hurting its feelings." I do NOT advocate anthropomorphizing objects, but that is a conversation that I've had before, so I wanted to include it.

Finally, your husband's "comments" need to be shut the fuck down. Establish a list. If it's not on the list, it doesn't get bought. Do not write on the list for him. If he brings up an item, tell him to write it on the list. If he texts you an item, tell him to write it on the list when he gets home. The cereal thing- "sorry didn't get cereal, but if you're going to the store please pick up X and Y." Does he commute by car? If so, you should outsource groceries to him.

Amazon has one, and they deliver.
Edit: if you have prime you’ll get it in 2 days.

It's hard to say without knowing how much data you want to back up and what kind, but here it goes.

RAID is not backup, it's a stopgap measure for a very specific type of hardware failures. It's in the same class with surge suppressors.

If you want backup:

• Put a beefy HDD in the same PC and use software that will do periodic, fully automated backups to it for the data that you indicate.
  
• Get another beefy HDD in a portable enclosure and do backups to it periodically but more seldom, like once a month. Keep this HDD in a different location, like at work or at someone else's house.
  
• Get a DVD or BluRay writer, buy decent optical discs (google a bit, I'm not up to date on what brands are good quality nowadays) and burn data to them every 2-3 months. Burn at 4x preferably, or as slow as the burner will allow. Keep these discs in disc binders like this or this. It's important that they can be zipped close, to protect from light and dust. Store them vertically, in a dry place. Preferably in a 3rd location, different from both your home and the place where you keep the portable HDD.
  
  The intervals given here are just a suggestion. Think about it like this: if all other backups are lost (mechanical failure, theft, fire, hurricane etc.), how recent do you want the surviving backup to be?
  
  Optical discs are the single most reliable and most cheap form of backup for home use. They can take shocks and survive moves a lot better than mechanical HDDs. To put things in perspective: I'm currently copying data back to my NAS, from backup DVDs stored as described above, going back to 2000. I'm about 1/3 through ~500 discs and so far not a single failure.

You could just get a traditional CD case (like this) and just keep your albums up for display?

I kept the discs as a backup, but I moved them all to an album.

If you don't already know how to rip DVDs, perhaps a simpler method of a DVD binder:
http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Nylon-CD-DVD-Binder/dp/B00DIHVMEA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398887816&sr=8-1&keywords=dvd+binder

They take much less space than the Jewel cases and you can still play the videos on the TV without tying up your laptop.

Otherwise, look here: http://lifehacker.com/380702/five-best-dvd-ripping-tools

once you've ripped the videos you can store them on a microSD card and play them on most android tablets.

My collection started off that way in labeled ziplock bags but I recently switched over to this cd binder that fit every tile with room to spare. Next step are hero and overlord card binders and perhaps a miniature case.

Missed that part in the op. Are you keeping your place in Britain while coming to the US? You could always get one of these for your dvds and leave the empty cases behind.

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Nylon-DVD-Binder-Capacity/dp/B00DIHVMEA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1505752621&sr=8-5&keywords=dvd+case

This case is really old, found it in a storage box. /u/Hudson187 found something similar:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIHVMEA/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_V1ezybBEHN9P8
Seems like a lot of options in that category.

Great idea!!

AmazonBasics Nylon CD/DVD Binder (400 Capacity) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIHVMEA/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_V1ezybBEHN9P8

put ur discs in binders, keep the covers/inserts tho separately

400 disc binder

I have something similar, albeit less "fancy". It's basically this:
https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Binder-Holder-Storage-Capacity/dp/B00DIHVMEA/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3005ZO2U9IBZY&keywords=cddvd+storage+case&qid=1564319839&s=electronics&sprefix=cd+dvd+storage%2Celectronics%2C177&sr=1-5

you can get ride of the cases and use instead a disc binder for storage of your games/movies

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Binder-Holder-Storage-Capacity/dp/B00DIHVMEA/

I threw all the boxes away and put the booklets and CDs into a folder thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/AmazonBasics-Binder-Capacity-Nylon-Black/dp/B00DIHVMEA

You can still buy them...

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Nylon-DVD-Binder-Capacity/dp/B00DIHVMEA

> How do you organize your compact discs?

Using a binder case.

Buy a CD holder.(example). Congrats, now 400 games takes up a whopping 6 inches of shelf space.