Getting Rid of Old DVD’s

We’re in the process of decorating and whilst we’re at it doing a bit of sorting. This weekends task involves sorting all the DVDs but I’m struggling with what to do with them.

Music Magpie & Ziffit aren’t interested in the majority of them and not sure if charity shops will want them but I don’t want to just skip them if I can avoid it.

So suggestions on what to do with them?

I recently priced up all my CDs and DVDs and books with music magpie and it came to a grand total of about £40 for what was originally thousands of pounds worth. So I just gave them to my niece who works with young adults with learning disabilities who will sell them or shift them on.

People have put such things on the classifieds here. Bit list, £ – call dibs in a list below.
You’d ship a few I reckon. That’s if you can be bothered to post to multiple places.
And hmmm, will the new classifieds layout lend itself to such a task…

Unless they are rare, then dispose of them in the most envronmentally friendly way you can.

Any specialist titles?

Threads on here said music magpie etc. Like you I tried, £40 or so for £1000’s of £ of DVD’s.

Charity shop. I must of had 250 or so, at a quid each that’s going to help someone more than £40 to me and the hassle of disposing of the 50% they didn’t want.

Lol at Flashy 😂

Thanks for the suggestions, found an app (Zapper) that will recycle if worth nothing, which is handy as our local tip won’t take them.

Like the idea of charity shop but none of them are open and I can’t be arsed to list on here!

Can I suggest doing whatever you can be arsed to do then? 😛

musicMagpie will responsibly recycle them if they are shite and you’ll still get money. You can also choose to donate the cash to a charity rather than taking it yourself. A lot of charities simply sell them to musicMagpie or similar so you’re just adding an extra layer to proceedings.

I upgraded all my “couldn’t live without” films to Blu Ray (around 100 of them) over the years but still had countless DVDs that I didn’t want to sell / give away but were taking up too much space.

So I bought a load of CD wallets, put all the discs in there then sent the DVD cases to the recycling skip at the local tip.

Last year over the first lockdown/restrictions, I did a WhatsApp film club with some mates, we swapped DVDs by post or dropped off (if restrictions allowed). It worked well for a while filling the gaps in streaming choices and mercilessly ripping the P out of each other’s DVD collections. 🙂

I use A3 ring binders and wallets to store the disc and cards, that way they take little space.

Mine are all in the loft as a hard-backup after having ripped them all to my hardrive 10+ years ago. You can always just keep the disk and recycle the case if you want the to take up a ridiculously small amount of space.

I’ve used zapper before (for books) – glad they are still going/expanding.

I took mine to CeX a few months ago.

I took a couple of Billys worth, years of collecting including some box sets still in shrink. I got £15 for the lot, and that was a voucher, would’ve been less for cash. If I’d known in advance, I’d rather have just taken them to the tip.

..then dispose of them in the most envronmentally friendly way you can.

But where is that? It’s just the cases I want to get rid of, but I have read in a few places that you can’t put them in a houshold recycle bit, and our local household waste recycling centre has no plastics bin, so it all goes in the landfill skip.

On a similar note, I have a cubic metre box full of CD’s – what’s the most painless way to rip them to a hard drive whilst I still have a laptop with a cd drive?

Facebook marketplace – put them on as a job lot for a fiver or free, and someone will take them off your hands. Better than skipping them, even if you don’t get anything for them.

Seriously, anything goes on there. I put a job lot of old obscure vinyl on there, went within 10min