Reorganising a DVD collection

I have a lot of DVD's. by most people standards it would be classed as immense and when people see it for the first time I usually get a wow.

Sadly due to space restrictions I have to store it on a shelf which is two DVD's deep and over time it tends to fall into disarray. And so for the second time that I can recall I decided yesterday to reorganise it. A decision while I am glad I did it I ended up regretting and cursing the idea.

As a rough indication of just how many dvds I have, its in the area of 1100 collected over about 10 years. The space I have for this is a 6 story book case 2 DVD's deep 52 standard DVD's across with space horizontally for more.

So how does one go about organising such a collection. Alphabetical? Hell no too normal. Genre? to a degree yes but too vague. So I decided to go with main actor. Mostly.

Oh yeah and one other thing, the whole shelf is in an area of about 1 square metre.

So you start of by emptying the whole lot, and laying out the collection.

The starting to sort them. Way too many to just categorize as you go so I decided first thing to do was split them into TV shows and movies.

Then I sorted out my TV shows into their individual show obviously. The pride of my collection although somewhat regrettable SG-1 collection. Collected every other week via mail until season 10 was due and the company fucked up. 

See they are numbered, 1 - 63 except that is only seasons 1 - 9 and season 10 was still showing at this point and so 64 was Atlantis. Now at this point I cancelled the collection and though my reasons may seem slightly petty and maybe they are but when you have a collection like this it should be all the SG-1's then all the Atlantis. Not SG-1 Atlantis SG-1 Atlantis Its just wrong. 

Its also the reason that I made them send me one of the DVD's several times as all of the spines make one large picture and one of them near the end is wrong. There is a gap in one of the pictures and I could not seem to make anyone understand how wrong that is. 

Anyway getting way way off track and likely no one is still reading this but anyway. Yeah. You know what I can't be arsed. No one is reading anyway.

JinxyKatte out.