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Originally Posted by xg4bx
i vote with my wallet all the time. i dont like the way the gaming industry is headed so i abandoned the hobby. i dont go to the movies. if push came to shove i can live without cable. i only buy 1 or 2 cds a year. a book costs too much? i buy it used. i only get the cellphones that end up being free with promotions when my plan is up. we buy store brand food.
unfortunately too many people these days have forgotten the concept of delayed gratification. theyll grumble grumble grumble but open their wallet the day something comes out.
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cfrizz-------------quote--------------------
BINGO! I very seldom go to the movies, I'd rather wait to get it on dvd & watch it on my surround system at home. I have found alternatives to high priced books, and I could probably cut my cable bill way down since I hardly watch tv.
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pagansoul----------quote--------------------
I only go to 2 or 3 movies a year, used to be 1 a week in the old days of $3 a movie. Now they are $8 and that's the early show. I used to rent from blockbuster but when I started getting my own DVDs and they were still renting VHS I gave up on them. I have used the Redbox and Blockbuster box if something interesting shows up but I tend to rent via Amazon or iTunes if it isn't Science Fiction. I have Amazon Prime so I watch all my TV series and many older movies on my home HDTV. When Netflix did their mail vs stream split I gave up the mail service. I have my mini attached to my TV so I also surf for shows, no need for cable other than high speed internet.
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J. Strnad-------------quote----------------
I was telling a friend once that I've made three wise financial decisions in my life: I never got a divorce, I never made a movie with my own money, and I never bought a boat. He replied, "Well, I've never bought a boat...."------
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Strnad, earlier I said that you should look into small boats, and I realized that I didn't mean to imply that I had never bought a boat. I have besides my inflatables, and small boats, a "small" ocean going fishing boat. (kind of a mini trawler) I am converting it into a house boat. I have been divorced 3 times, but I have never made a movie with my own money, nor do I go to movie theaters anymore, or buy DVDs.
Still, and this is the purpose of this post, I watch a lot of movies. I can wait until they come to DVD and rent them though. Sometimes I set the DVR on the TV to copy one that is broadcast. I don't have cable. I haven't bought a movie since they sold all those VCR tapes real cheap when they went to DVDs down at the video store. Now I wish I wasn't storing those VCR tapes. They will be gone for the most part in a year or two.
I use the Redbox. It is at my Ingles grocery store, and at my Pharmacy and several other places.
I used to use DVD Express (or something like that) at BiLo, but they changed to the Block Buster boxes to rent movies from. Tonight I got a interesting sci-fi dvd at RedBox at Ingles but also was in BiLo looking for something. I checked out the Block Buster box.
They had "Super 8" for $2.00. I got it the other night for $1.20 at Redbox. They also had one that Redbox doesn't have yet. "The Rise of the Planet of the Apes." (That might not be the exact title.) It was $3.00.
I will wait until it comes to Redbox for $1.20.