It might be cheaper to teach the Babies! to take care of their stuff, but that would require effort on my part.

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I didn't think this was possible, but it is: You can copy your DVDs into backups, and you can copy your DVDs onto Blu-Ray discs and reduce your library.

We have a TON of DVDs, in part because in the Olden days (2002), Sweetie used to just order up DVDs if she thought she might like the movie. With movies running $8.50 a person (plus snacks!), and with babysitters hard to come by (those older kids are always busy) it made sense to get a DVD for ten bucks if we thought we might like the movie.

The other part of why we have so many movies is that the Babies! like their movies and Little Einsteins and stuff, and they watch them over and over again, so we don't Netflix them, we just buy things like "Up!" for them to watch.

And therein lies the problems: We have shelves and shelves of DVDs taking up space, and the Babies! tend to wreck their movies by carrying them around, fighting with them, drawing on them, dipping them in my coffee, etc.

But that's no longer a problem now that I found out about dvd-ranger, a program that lets you backup your DVDs, including backing them up onto Blu-Ray DVDs.

The benefit of backing up your regular DVDs need not be explained, right? Back them up and the Babies! can do their worst -- and they will -- without worrying about unnecessary expense replacing them. It doesn't matter if Mr F used "Chicken Little" as a prop in his running-around-the-table game; I'll have a backup ready to go.

The benefit to backing up regular DVDs to Blu-Ray is even better: Blu-Ray DVDs can hold up to 10 movies on one disk, so we can reduce our library size to 1/10 of what it is, and have all the movies we've got on a few convenient disks. (Okay, 25 convenient disks, but that's still an improvement.)

I only just heard about DVD-Ranger, and clicked on over to their site, where I found free 3-day trial. And the only thing I like better than new technology is free new technology, so I'm all about this.