NETFLIX

My exceedingly generous sister bought us a 3-month subscription to NETFLIX. Kind of as an early anniversary gift, but mostly because she's just too generous. (And I guess we're easy to buy for.)

Anyway, I'd subscribed to NETFLIX before and it is awesome, especially because we don't have a videostore anywhere near us in our new place. The reason I canceled our subscription was because we got cable and I couldn't justify the added expense...

This is the tricky thing with NETFLIX. It's $22 a month for unlimited movies. You get three movies at a time, the rest exists in a queue until you start sending movies back. Yes, there are no "late fees", but if you keep the same 3 movies for an entire month, you've just paid $7.33 for each of them. So the only way to make it cost-worthy is to watch as many DVDs as you can in a month...

If you watch 4 DVDs in a month, you've just rented them each for $5.50 a pop. 5 DVDs? $4.40 a pop. 6? $3.66 a pop. (This is when it starts to be a decent price.) If you watch 10 or more, it's a real deal, but you can do the math. I just like filling up blog space with numbers. It makes me feel... important, somehow.

It's hard enough to try to find any quality time to spend with C., oftentimes -- and when we have some free time, we usually go out and stuff. That being said, we've packed a big queue and we'll do our best to make the most of 3 months. Thank you, sis!!! (You won't be reading this because I'd never want you to find this blog, but thank you all the same...)