First Attempts

OK, I have done LOTS of meditating and musing on how our house got this way, etc. And today I finally took some action.

I started in the downstairs kitchen area, thinking it would be tough but rewarding and figuring at least the first part would be easy. What was I thinking? I started with DVD's and videos but I'm really struggling with this one.

I want to get rid of all the videotapes. They are bulky, not as sleek or high quality as the DVD's and we have not watched 99.9 percent of them in the last few years probably for these reasons. Not because there aren't any good movies among them.

The other problem is that they are mostly children's films and with our youngest now at 13, I'm not sure why I would replace all the Disney, Veggietales, etc. except for the very rare and occasional visitor.

I am compelled to keep them for our grandchildren but that won't be for years, for our youngest to watch because she didn't get much exposure to children's films growing up, and because some of them you just cannot acquire on DVD at all.

I went on Amazon to do some research and set up a DVD wish list that I could work from and got sidetracked and started adding mountains of Criterion Collection foreign films, particularly Japanese ones, to the wish list. I didn't know what any of them were about but I'm sure they are high quality as they are pricey, they are Criterion and they won film festival awards.

WHAT WAS I THINKING? Now I've wasted more precious time and didn't complete my task of last evening.

Ah, well. I'm seriously considering just making a wish list of videos I wish to replace and them just tossing them. They fetch very little online anyway but maybe I should offer them at any rate.

I need to think about this whole decision some more...