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Do you guys keep the sleeves?

post #1 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:20pm
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I had a friend over to watch a movie in my dorm room the other night, and as she was looking through my collection, she started to laugh as she realized that all of my DVDs that came with box sleeves still have those sleeves. I can't explain why, but I've never thrown the sleeves away for any DVD that I've bought. Just wondering: do you guys keep the box sleeves, or discard them immediately?
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post #2 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:22pm
Unless the artwork is different, I chuck.
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post #3 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:32pm
Ditto. It seems like 90% of the sleeves are the same artwork with a little hole cut out for the UPC.
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post #4 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:33pm
I've never even thought of throwing them out. I guess it is just the geeky completist in me.
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post #5 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:39pm
Yep. Why not?
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post #6 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:41pm
I do when they start to look beat up or the price sticker won't come off.

I should probably just purge most of them. I may be able to fit more on the shelves!

Where's Bob CLark? Shouldn't he be in here to tell us to throw away the cases as well and keep the discs in a binder? The heathen.
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post #7 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:51pm
Do you guys chuck the jackets from hardcover books?
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post #8 of 55
8/25/08 at 4:54pm
I don'tkeep the slipcovers unless the art is different i.e. I sixth or seventh what everyone else is saying.

I also put the discs in binders and keep the store cases in boxes at my parents' house.
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post #9 of 55
8/25/08 at 5:00pm
I've started throwing them out. They're a lot more common with Hong Kong movies and I have a lot of those, so it adds up to lost storage capacity after a while. I'll keep it if the aren't not exactly the same as the proper DVD case, but otherwise, it's gone. Besides, didn't we stop doing this with CDs ages ago?

This isn't counting early discs from Pioneer and Mei Ah that were in jewel cases, which in turn were in cardboard sleeves the approximate size of DVD cases. Those sleeves get kept because fuck storing DVDs in jewel cases.
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post #10 of 55
8/25/08 at 5:07pm
Personally, I wish they'd release more dvds in the slim cases, but I guess every bit of spine real estate (for readability/visibilty) counts when some stores "library" display them like I do at home.
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post #11 of 55
8/25/08 at 5:31pm
Only if I think I might sell them at a later date.
Same with the shrinkwrap.
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post #12 of 55
8/25/08 at 5:38pm
the only time I contemplate getting rid of the sleeves is when the glue from the sticker at the top doesn't come all the way off and the sleeve sticks to the box.

But the completist in me keeps them anyway and uses a butter knife to get the box out until the sleeve tears open like my copy of The Full Monty and then I just wrap it back up and leave it alone.

What kills me the most is people who cut the sticker at the top instead of removing it.
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post #13 of 55
8/25/08 at 7:51pm
If they're going to cut down thousands of trees to make these retarded cardboard slip-ons I may as well keep them. Unless of course they store they go to decide to do something stupid like put stickers on them that leave residue or tear when being taken off ruining the slipcover. Fuck those slipcovers to hell.
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post #14 of 55
8/25/08 at 8:08pm
I always keep the sleeves. It's just my preference.
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post #15 of 55
8/25/08 at 9:29pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
the only time I contemplate getting rid of the sleeves is when the glue from the sticker at the top doesn't come all the way off and the sleeve sticks to the box.

But the completist in me keeps them anyway and uses a butter knife to get the box out until the sleeve tears open like my copy of The Full Monty and then I just wrap it back up and leave it alone.

What kills me the most is people who cut the sticker at the top instead of removing it.



Buy it by the case. Problems solved.
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post #16 of 55
8/25/08 at 9:50pm
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Originally Posted by reggie-wanker View Post
I've started throwing them out. They're a lot more common with Hong Kong movies and I have a lot of those, so it adds up to lost storage capacity after a while. I'll keep it if the aren't not exactly the same as the proper DVD case, but otherwise, it's gone. Besides, didn't we stop doing this with CDs ages ago?

This isn't counting early discs from Pioneer and Mei Ah that were in jewel cases, which in turn were in cardboard sleeves the approximate size of DVD cases. Those sleeves get kept because fuck storing DVDs in jewel cases.
Yeah, I junked most of my Mei-Ah DVD case sleeves due to the thick cardboard. The R1 sleeves are slightly better (thinner), plus they're all shiny, so I tend to keep those.

I actually like the jewel cases the older R2J discs came in. Anything that keeps me from buying another bookshelf for housing DVDs is OK by me.
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post #17 of 55
8/25/08 at 11:05pm
Only the Blu-Ray ones because they look sillier than DVD slipcases.
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post #18 of 55
8/26/08 at 12:02am
I usually keep them on, because really, why not?

If I have a series that uses them, and one is missing the sleeve(like with my PotC movies), I ditch them.
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post #19 of 55
8/26/08 at 12:19am
I can't understand the logic in throwing them away.
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post #20 of 55
8/26/08 at 1:35am
I'm too lazy to throw them away, though I think they're a totally useless waste of paper.
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post #21 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:15am
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
I do when they start to look beat up or the price sticker won't come off.
This.

I kept the Wall Street and 3:10 to Yuma sleeves in a drawer because they used a special cardboard that felt different and I wanted them around for, I dunno, reference between the different cardboards.

I'm weird, yeah.
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post #22 of 55
8/26/08 at 9:18am
If the sleeve artwork is exactly the same as the inner art, it gets thrown away, even if it is embossed for a 3D effect. However, if the sleeve features lenticular art, it is kept, even if the art is the same as the inner cover. In the rare instance where the sleeve features unique art, it is kept. I've never run into this issue with hardcover books, the jacket art is unique.
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post #23 of 55
8/26/08 at 9:33am
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Originally Posted by Anderson View Post


Buy it by the case. Problems solved.
Does that work on anything, um, else?
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post #24 of 55
8/26/08 at 9:55am
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Originally Posted by Andrew C View Post
I can't understand the logic in throwing them away.
Because they're trash?

I just mail mine to Darkmite.
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post #25 of 55
8/26/08 at 12:34pm
Yeah, Collins. What's the logic in keeping them? Especially if it's the same art?
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post #26 of 55
8/26/08 at 1:03pm
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The thought just never crossed my mind to toss them.
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post #27 of 55
8/26/08 at 1:10pm
I toss mine as soon as I open the dvd. I never saw the point in keeping them.
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post #28 of 55
8/26/08 at 1:49pm
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I just mail mine to Darkmite.
My skyscraper is nearly complete! Gotta block out those harmful UV rays, whilst I'm lounging in luxury.

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post #29 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Yeah, Collins. What's the logic in keeping them? Especially if it's the same art?
Because it's part of what you just spent a bunch of money on?
You just purchased a DVD and part of the packaging is a sleeve, alongside the inner booklet and front cover.
Why throw it away? It doesn't take up any space.

It's like throwing away a slipcase to a book, not the dust jacket.
Or like those people who used to keep all their CD's and covers in a giant ugly black CD wallet, and threw out the back cover and jewel-case (obviously that is a more extreme case of the same sad scenario).

Victory or Death!
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post #30 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:39pm
I call for an internet fight between keepies and throwies. Keepies suck ass!
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post #31 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Yeah, Collins. What's the logic in keeping them? Especially if it's the same art?
Pretty sure the art stands out more on the slip covers, than it does through the plastic DVD cover. When you take the slip covers off, the covers look kind of dull. I keep em.
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post #32 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:41pm
Keepies are completers.
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post #33 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:41pm
whoops, it posted twice. ignore this post.
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post #34 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:44pm
I keep all the slip cases. I am meticulous about removing the stickers and price tags and promotional crap off of them. I even keep all the crappy ad inserts that come in most DVD's. Without the cardboard slip cases my poor wittle discs could get cold at night!
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post #35 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:46pm
When I'm looking at a store shelf, and some of the discs (same edition, price, etc) have the cardboard and some don't, I buy the one with the cardboard. But then I throw it away when I get home.
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post #36 of 55
8/26/08 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by RCA View Post
Pretty sure the art stands out more on the slip covers, than it does through the plastic DVD cover. When you take the slip covers off, the covers look kind of dull. I keep em.
Well, that's why they produce them -- to stand out in stores. Not sure why this would be necessary to have in your own home.
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post #37 of 55
8/26/08 at 4:19pm
If it has a fancy looking sticker, like a "Winner of ONE MILLION Academy Awards" one and it peels off nice and clean I stick it on the inside of the case all nice and stuff.

And if it comes with a chapter list, I always flip it so the list is facing forward when you open the case. Quick access! Though I almost always throw away the "20th Century Fox DVD library / coming soon / blahblahblah" ad inserts.
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post #38 of 55
8/26/08 at 4:31pm
I can't believe people feel so passionately about keeping a fucking box. Do you guys still have all your Happy Meal boxes from when you were a kid, too?
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post #39 of 55
8/26/08 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew C View Post
Because it's part of what you just spent a bunch of money on?
You just purchased a DVD and part of the packaging is a sleeve, alongside the inner booklet and front cover.
Why throw it away? It doesn't take up any space.
So you keep the shrink wrap as well? And the shopping bag you carried it home in? What if you bought more than one DVD that day? Do they have to share the same bag?
This way lies madness, Andrew!
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post #40 of 55
8/26/08 at 5:29pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew C View Post
It doesn't take up any space.
The cardboard sleeves make the whole thing thicker, so it does take up more space.
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post #41 of 55
8/26/08 at 5:54pm
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Originally Posted by Brad_Lohan View Post
Do you guys still have all your Happy Meal boxes from when you were a kid, too?
You should see my dad's garage. There are boxes out there filled with nothing but the cardboard backings of every action figure I had as a guy. Every Kenner playset catalog, every GI Joe info card, every game console box. I am a horrible, horrible packrat. Thank christ my dad has a big garage and I can keep stacking shit there.
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post #42 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:00pm
I've been watching this thread pop up for two days, wondering if what would usually be a yes/no thread had some interesting running joke or something. Perhaps it's one of those weird threads that mutate into something that has nothing to do with the original topic.

Nope.

*sigh* Before I sold my DVD collection, I kept the sleeves. More than once, if I saw a movie that I already owned in a store with a sleeve, if my copy didn't have one, I would take the sleeve. No one ever stopped me. I was a monster.
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post #43 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:08pm
You fiend...

Speaking of stealing... ahem... Don't tell MissZooey, but I used to take the inserts out of DVDs I checked out from the library. Somewhere in my closet is a stack of DVD inserts. I don't know why I did it for most of them. DVD art is generally crappy crap crap. I stopped doing it when studios decreased the practice of putting chapter stop inserts in DVD cases.

I was young!!! It was the hormones!
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post #44 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by RCA View Post
Pretty sure the art stands out more on the slip covers, than it does through the plastic DVD cover. When you take the slip covers off, the covers look kind of dull. I keep em.
You display your movies facing out?

Also, no one has mentioned the annoying problem of having another step to go through just to watch your damn movie. Bad enough that those discs have those annoying fucking child locks on them nowadays....
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post #45 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:27pm
Long time ago, I transferred any DVDs that were in fold-out cardboard cases to standard black cases. It was to keep the cardboard covers undamaged, but it was also really annoying to have to carefully open those up. With the cheap black Amray cases, I didn't have to care.

But now I find that it's hard to find a DVD I'm looking for. D'oh. I get lazy and don't label them, ok!?
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post #46 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:28pm
Should rename this thread "Do you guys have OCD?"
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post #47 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:28pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Bad enough that those discs have those annoying fucking child locks on them nowadays....
I keep a blade on my coffee solely for DVD/game opening. I slice those damn child lock pieces of shit off immediately. When living with the neat freak ex I would drive her nuts by leaving out the little cut off locks after going DVD shopping. Those fuckers pile up quick.
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post #48 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:31pm
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but I used to take the inserts out of DVDs I checked out from the library. Somewhere in my closet is a stack of DVD inserts. I don't know why I did it for most of them. DVD art is generally crappy crap crap. I stopped doing it when studios decreased the practice of putting chapter stop inserts in DVD cases.
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You fucker! Most places I go won't lend out the inserts (if they even have them) thanks to you.

Incidentally - the slip cases aren't on most DVDs in the UK, but I always keep em - you don't chuck the box from a box-set do you? They are worth keeping as they count as "import" if you wanted to flog them to those rich ass brits.
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post #49 of 55
8/26/08 at 6:45pm
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Originally Posted by Brad_Lohan View Post
I can't believe people feel so passionately about keeping a fucking box. Do you guys still have all your Happy Meal boxes from when you were a kid, too?
I think the people who are throwing away part of the DVD product are arguing just as passionately as those of us who keep what we buy, extra 1/90th of an inch on the shelf be damned!

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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
So you keep the shrink wrap as well? And the shopping bag you carried it home in? What if you bought more than one DVD that day? Do they have to share the same bag?
You've gone off the deep end this time, Robert.
Maybe if the shrink-wrap and shopping bag had the DVD art printed on them I would keep them, thank you very much. But only to prove a point to you psychos, which is that there's something wrong with half of us.
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post #50 of 55
8/26/08 at 7:00pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
Also, no one has mentioned the annoying problem of having another step to go through just to watch your damn movie. Bad enough that those discs have those annoying fucking child locks on them nowadays....
Actually (and I'm no advocate either way), but my daughter, who is 4, got it in her mind that she was going to watch ALADDIN. Instead of asking Mommy or Daddy to put it in, she somehow scaled the entertainment center, reached up on top, and grabbed it. That sleeve (which is now all beat up) offered just enough of a distraction for her, that she was caught in the act. I imagine that tabs (which bug the crap outta me as well) would have done the same.

Scratched disc AVOIDED!
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