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Does any else keep shrink wrap around sets? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | When I buy a box set or tv series season sets I open it up where I can get out the discs, but keep intact the wrap around the rest.
Do it to keep dust off as well as to protect the case for as long as possible.
Just wondering if anyone else does the same. |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CubbyUps: Quote:
Just wondering if anyone else does the same. The answer is most likely: Yes. But not for me. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | No, I always just throw away the shrink wrap. | | | | Corey |
| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,737 |
| | Posted: | | | | I throw away the wrap and all stickers. Do you still have the plastic on your couch?  | | | | Marty - Registered July 10, 2004, User since 2002. |
| | Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | I toss all shrink wrap and most slip covers. At this point I also recycle or toss most cases.
I keep the inner paper and any relevant inserts (I toss ads, catalogs, etc. but keep booklets, chapter sheets, etc.) I only keep the case at this point if I think it's cool, if I think I might get rid of it later, or if it's blu-ray or Criterion (which are allotted precious shelf space). I was going to keep any cases that weren't keep cases, but that was still several tubs worth of cases and I just don't have the room. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
| | Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
I toss all shrink wrap and most slip covers. Same for me, unless the slip cover art is different and don't have sticker on it. | | | | Last edited: by Jimmy S |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | I pull it off and toss it away... out of a habit which does not apply. Back when music always came on vinyl, I collected LP records, which would come in a paper wrapping inside a carboard sleeve which had shrink wrap around it. Some collectors would leave the shrink wrap on the sleeve, just slittling the clear wrap enough to release the record, using the wrapper to prevent the cover art from scuffing when removing or replacing the album from the shelf. The problem was, is you lived in Sacramento, or Austin, or aniother hot summer month area, you needed to keep the albums stored verically, with ajacent albums tight against each other so the record itself would not warp. This was before many homes had air conditioners. The heat of daytime could further shrink the shrink wrap, causing pressure on the disk, perhaps enough to warp it. So we all learned to fully remove the shrink wrap. Later a nonshrinking clear wrap was sold to protect the art but not shrink.
So I remove all shrink wrap out of my vinyl collecting habit of more than 50 years. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
Cliff | | | | Last edited: by VibroCount |
| | Registered: July 16, 2010 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 521 |
| | Posted: | | | | I throw it away. But if it has some sort of sticker on it then I cut out around that and store it inside the DVD case (normally under the transparent part that goes over the cover on keep cases). So in that sense I do keep a little bit of the shrink wrap, that’s stuck to the back and adjacent to the stickers.  | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | I do and I don't. I have been burnt by not removing it and have gotten a damaged disc that I was stuck with, but only once or twice. So, I try to remove it, but sometimes, I just leave it until I watch it. Most Disney movies I open for the DMR points. I keep stickers and everything in the case, even ads. The stickers I'll remove from the shrink wrap-they usually come off pretty easily, and put them on the inside of the case. If it's a stick on UPC, I'll cut those out because they don't come off cleanly, but I like having the "official" UPC for the release. | | | | Lori |
| | Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | I try to and do whenever possible. Although down the road the most shrinkwraps left will start to either tear or turn color, and they end up tossed after a few years. But a few have stood the test of time, my Friday the 13th box (Lake to Manhattan) still has the wrap as does my Twisted Terror box and Dogma SE dvd, had those since they were released. I usually use a small knife to slit open the edges and get the discs out from one side. I also keep stickers (inside the case), but only movie-related ones. Like I'll keep a DC sticker if it has a film logo, but throw away any ad stickers as they annoy me. I try to peel them first, but if they won't come off easy I cut around them. Oh yeah, I keep the title strips from the top of the case also, just a weird habit I picked up after buying a used disc from ebay that was kept this way. It actually saved me once with a movie so bad, so terrible, so worthless (Def by Temptation) I used a buddies shrinkwrapping machine and took a disc back as new after watching it. It was that or break it! I literally only did that one time with that one horrid movie. Stick on UPC's (on the keepcase over the real ones) can be cleared with some Goo-Gone and elbow grease, but they are the worst and take 5-6 sets of pour, let set, dig up residue with fingernail and wipe away. You have to want them gone and have 10-15 minutes to work on em.  Recently I got one and haven't bothered to try and clean it, I just used a new BD case. | | | | Last edited: by bigdaddyhorse |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
I toss all shrink wrap and most slip covers. At this point I also recycle or toss most cases.
Where do you keep the inlays and discs? *is running out of shelve space* |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
I toss all shrink wrap and most slip covers. At this point I also recycle or toss most cases. You do know that (especially for BDs) you can sell the slip covers on Ebay for a tidy profit? Regular ones about £1, more rare ones can go for £4-5 easily... | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
| | Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting whispering: Quote:
Quoting Danae Cassandra:
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I toss all shrink wrap and most slip covers. At this point I also recycle or toss most cases.
Where do you keep the inlays and discs?
*is running out of shelve space* I transferred almost all of my discs to binders (the kind you see at places like Best Buy for CDs & DVDs). I have the binders on a bookshelf in my bedroom. The inlays, booklets and related materials I right now have in small tubs in my shed. I'm working on transferring them to binders. I'm putting them into page protectors, like you get at office supply stores. Eventually they'll all be alphabetized in binders. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
| | Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
Quoting Danae Cassandra:
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I toss all shrink wrap and most slip covers. At this point I also recycle or toss most cases.
You do know that (especially for BDs) you can sell the slip covers on Ebay for a tidy profit? Regular ones about £1, more rare ones can go for £4-5 easily... Didn't have a clue. Would do this if I hadn't already recycled them. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
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