The Addison Cafe

The other night I forfeited 2 hrs of my life by watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Awfulness.  It was over acted, over plotted, and over effected (IMO). Even though I regret watching it, fortunately I don’t have a guilty conscience about how much I spent on it.  I went to Blockbuster to see what they had in stock and noticed that Indiana Jones was available. However, Blockbuster was recently kind enough to jack up their new release prices to 5 bucks.  So I pulled out the new G1 phone (shameless plug, see below post) and quickly did a search of Redbox.com to see if they had the movie in stock, which they did. For those of you that don’t know, Redbox is a relatively new way of getting dvds. It has been around for a year or two now but a lot of people still haven’t heard of it. Essentially, it is like a vending machine full of dvds. Most of them sit outside of a McDonalds, Safeway, Albertsons, etc. The best way to describe what it looks like is…a red box. Fancy that.

Here’s how it works:  All the dvds in the machine are new or recent releases. They are all 1 night rentals. And best of all, they are all only 1 dollar. If you procrastinate returning your dvd, it will charge you 1 dollar a day until you return it or until it has been 25 days, at which point it stops charging you and you get to keep the dvd. So if you manage to return it the next day, you will be saving 4 bucks on every rental compared to Blockbuster (that’s 80% off!). No membership required, no paperwork, no nothin’. Just a new way to rent movies and save some money while you are at it. Enjoy!