In case you hadn\u2019t guessed from the non-stop barrage of festive adverts that hit our screens this weekend (yes, the Coca-Cola one has been on too\u201d\u00a6), Christmas is just around the corner.<\/p>\n
And with Christmas comes presents – including, no doubt, quite a few DVDs.<\/p>\n
There’s a bumper crop of releases this year, such X-Men: Days of Future Past,<\/i> How to Train Your Dragon 2<\/i>, Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/i> and Pudsey The Dog: The Movie<\/i> (don\u2019t deny it; it\u2019s top of your Christmas list). You can check out the best of the bunch in this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, getting new DVDs for Christmas leads to a whole new problem: clutter. Gifts, as lovely as they are, still take up space, and that may be space you don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n Luckily, we\u2019re here to help. Here are some top decluttering tips to help you clean up your DVD collection before the inevitable Christmas influx.<\/p>\n Every now and again, you\u2019ll look at your DVD collection and wonder: \u201d\u02dcwhere on Earth did I get that copy of Couples Retreat<\/i> from?\u2019<\/p>\n And then you\u2019ll remember; you borrowed it from your mate Dave five years ago, but never watched it and never gave it back. The chances are you\u2019ve got a few more borrowed DVDs in there too.<\/p>\n Giving stuff back after quite a long time (and if you\u2019ve forgotten that you\u2019ve borrowed them, it\u2019s probably been a long time) can be awkward but it\u2019s worth it. You\u2019ll be surprised how much space you\u2019ll make.<\/p>\n Picking which DVDs to sell and which to keep is always difficult, but we\u2019ve come up with a handy way to help you decided: our top traded DVD charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every now and again, we publish the 10 titles our customers are trading the most of. You\u2019ll usually get a decent price for these titles, so it\u2019s well worth considering selling your copies if you\u2019ve got any on your shelves.<\/p>\n The ultimate rule of effective DVD decluttering is simple: one in, one out. That means for every DVD you buy, you sell another.<\/p>\n That might sound like quite a drastic approach, but it actually makes quite a lot of sense. Every DVD you buy is another DVD you won\u2019t be watching. Pick out a film you haven\u2019t watched in ages and get rid of it. Your collection won\u2019t actually go down in size, but it won’t grow out of control either.<\/p>\n This is a little bit naughty, but it\u2019s probably the best way to make sure you\u2019re selling the right DVDs. There are a number of methods, honed by crafty children over the years, to find out what you\u2019re getting: our favourites are the good old search around the house, and telling whomever you suspect has bought you a present that you\u2019re planning to buy it yourself (then watching them desperately trying to convince you not to).<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really lucky, your present-giver will use rubbish wrapping paper that you can see through!<\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve figured out what you\u2019re getting, you can make an informed choice on which of your DVDs you should sell (although you will have ruined Christmas).<\/p>\n If you\u2019re planning on decluttering your DVD collection, why not sell DVDs with musicMagpie<\/a>?<\/p>\n Main image credit: Will Keightley on Flickr<\/a>, via Creative Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you hadn\u2019t guessed from the non-stop barrage of festive adverts that hit our screens this weekend (yes, the Coca-Cola one has been on too\u201d\u00a6), Christmas is just around the corner. And with Christmas comes presents – including, no doubt, quite a few DVDs. There’s a bumper crop of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nReturn the DVDs you\u2019ve borrowed from other people<\/h4>\n
\nCheck out our top traded charts<\/h4>\n
\nFollow the one-in one-out rule of decluttering<\/h4>\n
\nFind out what you\u2019re getting<\/h4>\n
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