Although the travel pouch is meant to be used as its name implies to store DVDs or CDs and carry them when travelling, there is another potential use for them.

They can also be utilised to help solve storage problems in the home. A typical travel pouch or a ring binder container measures about 15 x 20cm and will have a capacity of 24 disks held in 12 sleeves.

The storage pouch can be used in several ways. For example, you could use it to store TV programmes and films recorded from the television, PS2 games and CDs. You may want to keep a particular TV series in one place so you are more easily able to access it. Or perhaps you could organise by genre – science-fiction, detective or comedy. Alternatively, films and TV series’ may be kept in separate pouches. The options are endless.

If you were, for instance, to record from TV using even the LP mode, you could store four hours of viewing on each disk and this in turn would mean that it is possible to have 96 hours of films or TV programmes in each pouch. If you decide to use the SLP mode on every disk, you would increase this to 192 hours per travel pouch.

Now we turn to the storage part. The DIYer might decide to build tall, narrow shelving units, possibly on castors so that it be easily slipped in and out of a small unused space in one of your rooms.