What do you do when you scratch a disc?

[Donl1282]

When you scratch a disc by accident, do you just test it to make sure it doesn’t skip and keep it or do you buy another one to replace it if the replacement price is low? Sometimes I get the urge to replace a disc when it gets scratched even though I probably really shouldn’t and I have done it even though very rarely.

I do have worries that one day my daughter might be going through my collection and opening my discs and end up getting scratches and fingerprints all over them. If that happens it will make the expense of replacing one or two scratched discs seem like losing a few pennies. For those of you with small kids, how do you safeguard your collection from damages? Even though kids may not be interested in the films, the colors and pictures of the boxes would no doubt intrigue them enough for them to potentially open up many cases, taking out discs and possibly leaving them with scratches and fingerprints.