Johnny Cash takes up valuable space on our closet floor. Not just Johnny. Everyone from John Denver to the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Beatles, Yardbirds โ lots of animals, come to think of it โ are in there with Johnny.ย Thatโs not a problem. Those are my treasures.ย But our teenage sonโs room, now thatโs a problem.
Who knows whatโs at the bottom of those piles of Duck Hunt for Nintendo, and Mario Brothers, and Halo and Halo II and Halo III and Halo IV โ well, I admit it, I donโt know how many Halo games there are, but a lot. And weโve got them all, piled up. Theyโre probably covering a Commodore 64 somewhere among our treasures. And Pong. Pretty sure Pong is there, too.
And movies. Tons of DVDs.
Movies are stacked on my turntable. Movies are stacked in corners, on shelves, on tables, shoved behind cabinets. How many copies of Cinderella โ or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, for that matter โ and on how many formats, does one family need?ย OK, yes. The vinyl is a problem, too.ย Itโs a problem because the wife says itโs a problem โ and when the wife identifies a problem, itโs a problem.
Weโve known for years that thereโs a market for used vinyl. Not so much for cassettes and 8-tracks.ย But weโre learning about the market for used DVDs and games as well.
Folks, you can earn cash!
Actually, it was the teenage boy who first jumped on this bandwagon of selling your old DVDโs, CDโs or Video Games for cash. It wasnโt altruistic. And it wasnโt because he saw the clutter as a problem.
It was cash.
My boy saw the new Xbox system on the horizon and went into a mad effort to raise cash quick.ย Original Halo? Sold. Air Force Delta Storm? Gone. Chronicles of Narnia? Goodbye.ย Within just a few weeks, the lad had enough cash to buy his new system โ all by selling games he not only didnโt use, but probably didnโt even have a gaming system that would play them.
He got his new system. We got to see the carpeting in his bedroom, again.
Everyone wins.
Now weโre going through our DVDs and CDs.
Those are cash โ cash headed to our pockets.