Save space by shrinking your CD collection

CDs can take up a lot of space. Now that downloading is an option (saves you money because you only pay for songs you want; saves on plastic because it doesn’t use any), you can stop buying CDs altogether. But what about the collection you already have?

If you’re brave, you can burn your whole collection to your hard drive or some MP3 CDs or whatever will hold it and sell or give away every CD you have. But if you want to hold onto at least the discs and liner notes, there’s a surprisingly cheap option: cases from Targus that hold tons of CDs in an unimaginably small space. The only thing is, you have to get rid of the cases.

Last weekend, I found something at Staples that wasn’t available online anywhere – a $15 case from Targus that holds 256 CDs. I crammed in both discs and liner notes (in some cases, just the front cover for easy identification) and it easily held the whole collection. Now what used to take up three shelves of a little bookshelf is in a binder I can put in a million places. And it’ll move easily in a couple of weeks, when I change apartments.

The case I found was much, much cheaper than anything online, so check out your local office supply stores for a great bargain. Also try remnant stores like Big Lots and Pic ‘N’ Save.

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Posted in Do It Yourself, Organization on May 14, 2008