Pinching Pennies... Redbox Style

This Summer I've joined in on the library Summer Reading Program for Adults, in my neck of the woods. They have this list of activities to do and one of them asked you to like the library on Facebook and then leave a comment on why you love the library.

 

Why do I love the library???

 

I love the library because they are family friendly with great family and children's programs....

 

and then it hit me...

 

And I save MONEY by checking out movies instead of Redboxing it on a weekly bases!

 

So I did a little simple Math.

 

We check out FIVE movies for my daughter and TWO for myself every week.

 

At Redbox prices this would be an average of $1.21 per movie times SEVEN

equalling $8.47 per day...

 

Now multiply that times the full SEVEN days that we are allowed to keep the movies and you have a whopping....

 

$59.29 per week

 

Do you ever keep a Redbox movie that long? Or that many at one time for that long? Probably not, however, on several occasions I have been caught with THREE movies for three or four days and my total is about ELEVEN DOLLARS.

 

Reality... When I use my library I know that we have the movies for ONE WEEK and we get to watch them or not watch them and I don't have to feel guilty about that.

 

So happy Library Hunting because this girl loves that fact that she is saving $59.29 per week on movies this Summer. So this month I will save $237.16 on entertainment from not renting REDBOX. And by Summers End... $711.48

 

Now that is something I can write home about!!!

 

Happy Thrifty Squeaking

 

 

 

 

Ahhhh..

Spring Time is almost over and Summer is just about here

Due to the change of the season I am trying very hard to pull myself up by the boot straps and get real...

Here are a few things I'm doing to prepare myself:

Ballet Boot Camp

Eating like a French Women

Only eating sugar and junk like food on the weekends

Taking care of my house and the gardens

painting projects done before company comes

vitamins?? ((tried one kind for two months and ended up getting the worst migraine and getting super sick))

kicking up my fashion back up a notch, I've been in a funk and so to find things that spark my creativity I've been hitting up pintrest...

 

 

Looking ahead

trying not to look behind

trying really hard to enjoy life again...

 

Sometimes we hold our breath until a storm has passed...

or we enter into a season of waiting on things

and then realize that we have forgotten to live life fully.

 

 

Seasons that we come to in life that we thought would be different but they are not.

So we play a game trying to figure all of the little details out.

 

We'll at least that's me...

 

I'm needing inspiration.

 

inspiration

inspired

sparking something creative to life

once again...