In a jam... Trandon DO NOT READ THIS!!!!!

I pride myself on giving gifts that are creative and customized to the recipient.  I listen to my loves' unofficial wish lists all year, plus I think about things that might transcend them to a happy memory.  For example, last year I gave my sister Sarah the paperback book, "There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom" by Louis Sacher.  When we were super young, maybe grade school, we loved this book, we read it multiple times.  Over the years, the book was lost and forgotten.  I gave it to Sarah and though it wasn't the most expensive gift in the world, it gave her a gift and a memory in one small package.  Priceless.

Last year, I scouted around for three months online looking for a used upright piano in great condition in the $300 price range.  It took some doing, going to some crazy spots found on craigslist (some places that I realized, after the fact, I should not have ventured alone.... whew), but I was able to find a gorgeous mahogany brown upright in the first week of November.  The couple was going through an ugly divorce and it had been a gift for their wedding and neither person wanted it.... SCORE!  I don't mean to sound insensitive, but this piano was a steal and I couldn't wait to see Trandon's face when he opened it.... which was another dilemma altogether.  Wrapping a piano in quite a feat, I had to use a refrigerator box and some other odd things along with five rolls of wrapping paper to get that mother effer covered and nice looking (nice enough).  And then it just had to sit in the living room, taunting Trandon, for six weeks.  I worried that he would guess, but the funny thing is he never thought I would buy that (considering our price restrictions) so he didn't even come close to guessing.  All in all, awesome, hard to top.... which leads us back to my problem.

So Trandon has been talking for two years about how awesome it would be to have every animated Disney movie on DVD, minus the abominations like Aladdin 17 or Little Mermaid: Flounder's Adventure to Wherever.  The point: my budget won't allow for me to buy them all, plus Song of the South has been banned for many years now so at best I could probably round up a VHS copy.  I would need each movie to be about $5 so that I could get them all.  Do you think its worth me looking on craigslist, eBay, and all those obscure spots for DVDs?  Or should I scrap this idea and come up with something else?


I just looked on Amazon.com and it seems like if I was willing to buy VHS, I could pull it off with my budget constraints and still buy a VCR.  But that would only get me so far... at a certain point, the newer releases would only be available on DVD and/or BluRay.  Would it be lame to mix media like that?

Here's link to the website that gave me the list of movies: http://www.disneymovieslist.com/animated-disney-movies.asp