The Over Caffeinated Dad on Seattle Pi points out the hidden cost of keeping Netflix DVDs for weeks or months:
And then one day it arrives in your mailbox and, naturally, you don't feel like watching it tonight, tomorrow, or the next day, so you stick it on top of your DVD player, where it sits for three months before you send it back, take it off your queue, and shortly thereafter find yourself -- as usual -- the lone member of the "I've never actually seen that" club.Repeat this every 18 months or so for five or six years, and factor in the cost of even the most basic Netflix membership, and you end up spending $114.87 for something you could buy new at Target for $19.95.
If we don't watch a movie within 10 days, I try to send it back to get something we're more interested in watching. It's also a good idea to get a mix of titles so you have different movies to suit your different moods.
What's the longest you've kept a Netflix movie or TV show?
I'm an idiot... I recently realized I've stubbornly kept one of my movies since DECEMBER (It's now June). I don't even want to think about how much money I've wasted.
Posted by: Marc | June 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM