# Suggestions requested on what to do with my old VHS tapes

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 14, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-requested-on-what-to-do-with-my-old-vhs-tapes/316970 "2005-08-14T15:27:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-requested-on-what-to-do-with-my-old-vhs-tapes/316970/21 "2005-08-16T01:25:10Z")

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Anything that is a G, PG or PG13 is a good bet for an old folks home or group home. Also, you can call your local library and see if they may be interested.

Also, if you have a specific genre colleciton, Ebay might be the place to offload it with a low starting bid of something like $1 for 25 tapes. I did that a few months ago with 50 of my kids infant and preschool tapes. Made $45, which is way more than I paid for them as most of them were hand me downs or cheapies at garage sales.

Everyone is offloading their VHS. I’ve never seen such a glut before, a veritable tsunami of VHS tapes everywhere. Go to a Thrift Store and they had loads. Garage sales everyone is dumping them. If you think you can make a buck or two, sell it now.

Or you could rip out a bunch of the tape and decorate your place for a party.

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