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17. Don't forget to save a vcr too.

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:37 AM

May 2016

My boyfriend buys all the Disney movies too. Plus Star Wars etc. He's since upgraded everything to DVDs. The little girl downstairs currently has his whole collection.

I never saw the value in buying a movie to keep. He bought me the Godfather and complains I've never taken it out of the case. Movies like that are only meant to be watched when you run across them while flipping channels. I say "ooooh The godfather is on" and he says

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Does anyone still have VHS tapes? [View all] mrmpa May 2016 OP

Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, A Fish Called Wanda, Platoon, Fight Club pinboy3niner May 2016 #1

I have some, but they are destined for the trash bin. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #2

Same here. nt raccoon May 2016 #20

All the home movie ones I converted to digital a long time ago. hobbit709 May 2016 #3

Yes A Little Weird May 2016 #4

I don't know how to recycle them, other than............ mrmpa May 2016 #5

I doubt they're even worth donating A Little Weird May 2016 #6

I have most of the old Disney cartoon movies. femmocrat May 2016 #7

i have a bunch of disney tapes at my dad's fizzgig May 2016 #13

Don't forget to save a vcr too. Hassin Bin Sober May 2016 #17

We still have a working VCR. femmocrat May 2016 #23

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Burn's Civil War, Victory at Sea sarge43 May 2016 #8

Collectors will probably pay handsomely for that Star Wars tape. nt Codeine May 2016 #26

Yes, back when Bravo was a foreign film channel Lydia Leftcoast May 2016 #9

It might be worth something, or LiberalElite May 2016 #10

50+ MST3K episodes frogmarch May 2016 #11

We still laugh at our MST3K tapes Number9Dream May 2016 #22

Queen: Freddie Mercury Tribute concert of April 20, 1992 DinahMoeHum May 2016 #12

a bunch of disney movies and jurassic park fizzgig May 2016 #14

LOST mainstreetonce May 2016 #15

My grandma has about 200 of them. ohnoyoudidnt May 2016 #16

Yes, and I'm a Dark Shadows fan. area51 May 2016 #18

Yeah, I do electronica installation pieces with them occasionally Recursion May 2016 #19

Yes TuxedoKat May 2016 #21

For those of you who want to get rid of them TexasBushwhacker May 2016 #24

Last time I moved I binned my pile. Codeine May 2016 #25

I have every Disney movie on VHS from when my daughters were young. Avalux May 2016 #27

Yes. I bought three more last Saturday mahatmakanejeeves May 2016 #28

I have most of the X-Files on tape but watch it on Netflix instead Digit May 2016 #29

All of Hill Street Blues, recorded in the early 90s when in reruns Bucky May 2016 #30

That is cool...........eom mrmpa May 2016 #31

I just transferred the lot of them to mpeg format. surrealAmerican May 2016 #32

What sort of art? RogueTrooper May 2016 #35

video art ... surrealAmerican May 2016 #39

Exact same thinf with a friend of mine. pressbox69 May 2016 #33

I have hundreds, and we watch them often dr.strangelove May 2016 #34

I watch TV over the air (OTA). mahatmakanejeeves May 2016 #42

Star Wars RogueTrooper May 2016 #36

The Smithsonian? KamaAina May 2016 #37

My wife has a pretty large collection of Disney movies on VHS OriginalGeek May 2016 #38

I bought an old high-end VCR at the thrift store for ten bucks. hunter May 2016 #40

Yeah, lots Populist_Prole May 2016 #41

A couple bikebloke May 2016 #43

Monty Python and the Holy Grail MH1 May 2016 #44

We have them because my husband will never throw anything away worstexever May 2016 #45