Donate VHS Movies to the Library

Rid yourself of extra, unwanted, and unused VHS movies by donating them to your local library! There are still a lot of people who have not made the change to DVD, who go to the library to check them out, saving rental fee money. I had seven large brown grocery sacks full. My son and I took the movies there. When I first saw the very small and sparse collection they had, it left a lot to be desired. They were housed in spinning wire racks. Now, with a lot more to loan out they have been placed on beautiful wooden shelves!

The original thought behind this was: "why should I have to dust, store and be burdened with so many movies, I will never watch since updating to a DVD player?" I gained a LOT of extra space by getting rid of them, and improved the library loan system!

By melody_yesterday

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By 09/01/2009

What about the childrens hospitals? I know when I was there for a prolong visit there was not much to watch. My husband ended up bring some from home and rented some for me, once my son fell asleep.

Louise

By 09/01/2009

I have donated movies, AND books to our Library for years. If they don't put them out for rental, then they put them in the book store for the Friend's of the Library to raise funds.

By 09/01/2009

After my husband died, I donated 117 VHS and 27 Slide trays, but I still have blank VHS, will the Library take them. Maybe they could sell them. I use their Audio Books, so I feel I could give them something. I can't take them off my Taxes, but at least they can go for some good.

By 09/01/2009

I donate our childrens VHS tapes to our local school so the teachers can have them on hand. Zig

By 11/11/2008

I always donate old movies and books to the library. As somebody else posted, our library sells whatever they can't use. Also, when I had small children I would always take out videos from the library. It felt so good to give all my childrens VHS and DVDs to the library when they outgrew them. I know how much I benefited from being able to rent videos from the library. I was glad I could expland their collection with updated material.

By (Guest Post) 11/06/2008

Also, IF your library gets too many of these videos, they will still profit from your donation, they will sell them at their yearly sale and use the money to purchase more books, etc. for the library. My family checks out videos from the library on a regular basis, so we thank you for your donation.

By DEBRADJ. (Guest Post) 11/06/2008

Don't forget those VHS tapes are tax deductible as are books. Donate them to library get a receipt for library and turn in on taxes as non monetary donated goods. My mom goes to the library sales to buy used VHS movies for her collection. They cost a buck and she can afford them that way and can watch them over and over.