Here’s an easy and inexpensive way to get your DVD collection organized and corralled. We don’t have tons of DVDs, but they were definitely taking up more space than I liked (read: the entire cabinet below, with multiple rows of stacks). It was difficult to find what we were looking for, which made watching movies less than enjoyable. When I came across this solution on Pinterest, I knew I wanted to do something similar in our space.

We now have plenty of space in this cabinet not only for our DVDs, but also for video games and the controllers for the Xbox and Wii systems.

I started off by going through our DVD collection (while watching Friends on Netflix, natch). We had them stored in their cases, as well as my college DVD collection, which were in two CD cases that were filled to capacity. I pulled out anything that we no longer watched (highlights included the entire first season of Laguna Beach) to donate, which immediately freed up some space.

I then took DVDs out of their cases and slipped them into these sleeves, placing them in alphabetical order into our new storage bin. All of the old cases went into a bag to donate to The Scrap Exchange, a local nonprofit here in the Triangle, but they aren’t currently accepting this type of donations, so they’ll be recycled instead.

Once all of the DVDs were in sleeves, I pulled out my handy label maker so that we would know which DVD  was missing if one was ever empty. I decided to go with labels instead of writing on the cases in case we ever wanted to reuse the sleeve after getting rid of a DVD.

I then made section dividers so that we can easily find what we’re looking for when searching for a particular title.

And there you have it! A simple and inexpensive way to organize DVDs. Since I purchased two containers, I used the second one to store Kate’s video games, as well as my exercise DVDs. I’m so happy with how this turned out and hope you’re able to implement something similar in your own space!

Product Sources
Gray bins: Target (these but solid gray)
CD sleeves: Amazon
Card stock, stickers, chalkboard labels: Michael’s

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The post “A Space-Saving Way to Organize DVDs” was written by Hillary Bruce and first appeared on Honey Hive Home’s blog. Honey Hive Home is based in Chapel Hill, NC and provides professional organizing in North Carolina and across the U.S. via virtual organizing.