DVD/Blu-ray collections

Up until last week I use to have all my DVDs in cardboard boxes, hidden away, out of sight, out of mind. I started to feel guilty about spending so much money and time over the years, constructing a decent collection - only to conceal it. So, I decided to get organized and went and bought a pretty big shelving unit from a well-known furniture retailer and filled it with all my DVDs. I had no idea that I had so many DVDs, well I did know that I had alot - but not this many. I had never had them all out on show and it was pretty rewarding just to see how many I had - like a man who stands at the back of his ranchhouse and looks out over the range and sees all those cattle.

I also inventoried all them in one of those DVD cataloging apps so I could keep a count of how many I have and also to avoid buying ones that I already have. It was pretty time consuming but ultimately rewarding adventure. I have 2,824 DVDs exactly. My girlfriend was around my place yesterday and she remarked that I had too many but DVDs are such a serious part of my life. I just feel pround that I own all these DVDs.

I don't spend a lot of money any more on DVDs, probably a couple of Dollars, max. I don't collect Blu-rays at all. I haven't a single one. I personally don't see the point in "upgrading" - if i found a Blu-ray of Days of Heaven 1978 or Long Weekend (1978) - gorgeous looking films, then maybe - but otherwise no. Aside from DVDs, I collect books such as old literary classics and paranormal non-fiction and I done something similar there too.

What about you? How do you keep track of what you have? How do you store you DVD/Blu-ray collection? Do you hide them away or do you put them into shelving units? Or do you even collect them anymore? Does anybody use one of those DVD cataloging apps or something similar?