A woman who spent years collecting over 1,000 copies of Wedding Crashers has been filling Little Free Libraries with her DVDs.
Sable Adelaide from Minneapolis, Minnesota found 25 DVD copies of the 2005 comedy film Wedding Crashers on sale at a Used-A-Bit secondhand store for 25 cents each. She bought them all, filled a shelf, and then asked her roommate to pick out a movie as a joke.
The $6.25 practical joke then expanded, and she began to collect as many copies as she could, with the aim of reaching 1,000. She posted updates to Reddit and strangers began sending her their own copies.
She opened a P.O. Box for the collection
Adelaide told Racket that so many people wanted to send her their copies that she decided to open a P.O. Box. A man from Poland would send 40-70 copies at a time. By the time she had reached her goal, her collection sat at around 1,200 copies.
To celebrate, she held a screening of the movie at the Fargo Theater. It was the first time she had seen the movie and wasn’t much of a fan.
Then came the problem of getting rid of them. She began by trying to sell them directly, but after moving from Fargo to Minneapolis and not having the storage space, she decided to fill up the city’s Little Free Libraries with copies of the movie.
Transporting the DVDs around the city on her longboard, Adelaide distributed hundreds of DVDs across 19 Little Free Libraries, sometimes leaving 20 to 30 copies in a single box. She said she cleaned the boxes and got rid of “garbage flyers” where necessary.
Bar some initial confusion, the stunt was largely met with amusement. Adelaide herself describes the project as a “100% queer art installation”.
Speaking on the whole affair, Adelaide said: “The community’s been through a lot here, but it’s also a loving and caring community that really needs a good smile every once in a while. This was the perfect place to do it.”
For more on physical media, check out our coverage of the man refused a refund after his digital copies of the Lord of the Rings movies disappeared from his library.
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