A Thrifty Movie Night
The following is a guest post.
We love to watch movies and that includes new ones, however as a family it costs roughly $35 just to get tickets. This doesn’t include food and drinks. By the end of the movie we may have spent a whopping $60, but this only happens on a rare occasion. We’ve learned a few new tricks on having a thrifty movie night. These are tricks anyone can do, even when you have kids.
First, you can either rent movies or buy them and I’m not meaning buy the brand new ones that cost $20 or more. Go to the bargain movies, you know the ones in those bins that are marked for $1 or $5. Yes, these may be slightly old but it’ll be something new to you and your family. Pick out a few you’d like to watch as a family. Head over to the grocery aisle and pick up a box of popcorn, chips or whatever your snack of choice is and some beverages. In the end you’ve spent less money then you would buying tickets for the family.
My favorite place to get movies is the dollar rentals, which for me is something called the Redbox inside my local McDonald’s. You can rent any new dvd rentals that come out every Tuesday and return it the next day. I normally grab 2-3 of them and go to Wal-mart to get snacks. One box of popcorn can last for several movie nights and I also grab Kool-Aid for my kids and on rare occasions we’ll get the no name .60 2 liter bottle of soda.
As you can see it can be a thrifty movie night that the entire family will enjoy.
Eliza is a wife and stay-at-home mother to four children that range from 11 years to 1. When she isn’t busy playing video games with them or changing diapers, she enjoys blogging and reading books. For a more personal view of her life, you can find her blogging about motherhood at Babylune or The Life of a Home Mom.
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1 opinion for A Thrifty Movie Night
dorojm
Aug 13, 2008 at 9:51 pm
We do the same thing in our house. Have you signed up for text messages from the redbox.com site? They will send you a text with a coupon code good for a free Monday rental and sometimes even a Wednesday rental too. There is also a site called insideredbox.com that posts codes that others have found that work for free rentals. My only problem is remembering to take the movie back but I’m working on it.
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