Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

My partner and I LOVE Netflix. We can rent all the movies, new / old-school / classic TV shows, and documentaries we want for one low monthly price (our queue has at least 250 DVDs in it right now, not counting the dozens and dozens and dozens we’ve already been through! hehehe). We can also connect with our friends and leave cute little notes about the movies we loved and the movies we didn’t love so much. It’s way fun to see what our friends have in their queues.

Netflix is SO easy to use, especially if you’re one of those people who gets lots of late fees because you just can’t get around to taking the DVDs back to the store. They mail you the DVD(s) (the number depends on which plan you get), you watch them, you pop them back into their envelopes (no postage required!) and stick ’em in the mail! Keep each disc as long as you want; there are no late fees!

The turn-around is very rapid; once you mail it, you usually have a new one within a couple of days. You can also switch back and forth between plans, so you can pay less during the school year when you don’t have as much time, and get a better plan during the summer when you’re all about watching movies. I love this, because I’m a law student, so during the year I don’t have lots of time for movies, but the second the school year is over, I want to just park myself in front of the TV and catch up on everything I’ve missed!

Right now, my partner and I are zipping through Punky Brewster and The West Wing, as well as a whole slew of movies we’ve been meaning to see. That’s another great thing about Netflix — new releases come out pretty quickly. If you always manage to miss movies while they’re in the theater, worry no more – as soon as you think of a current release you don’t want to forget, you can save it to your queue, and when it’s released it’ll come to you according to your queue order.

Finally, Netflix is a great way to preview films before you take the step of adding them to your home DVD collection. There are plenty of movies we really like but don’t necessarily want to own… but it’s such a hassle getting to the rental store, and then returning it… this way you don’t waste money buying DVDs you’re going to watch once!

Convinced? Try it now, for free!

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