Always Netflix. We have roku too. It's great for watching whole episodes of TV shows. We have no movie rental place in town now, so this is definately the way to go. We rarely go to the movies unless we get a gift card. We also have a family-run movie theater in town that we try and patronize as they work really hard at only having G, PG and PG-13 movies only.
I use New York City's public library. There's a branch down the street from work, so I can put up to 10 movies on hold and then pick them up during my lunch break. NYPL has a large selection of movies and if I remember to get a hold on as soon as a new movie comes out it usually only takes a couple a weeks or so to arrive. Usually I get 1-2 new movies per week, which works out perfectly as I only watch on the weekends. If I wanted a movie right away I could always go visit a branch and pick one out from what is available.
Danger! Danger! There usually comes a point where you have to begin to associate your passion with deadlines, angry customers, the need to make a living, the need to be passionate full time and then doing that for years. This can easily turn the passion into the exact opposite. The "I love my work" statement and it's cousin (If you don't love your work find some work you love) seems predominately to be made by those who have only worked in the field of their passion for a couple of years. Being passionate for 15 years or more is pretty rare, so you gotta have an exit plan. In particular, once you're no longer passionate about your passion, what's your passion going to be; obviously it'll be hard to leave your career at that point. So good advice in the short term, but it has some undesirable long term consequences.
I'd say, find some work which you're not necessarily passionate about but which you do well and which does not require you to be passionate about it to work with it. In other words, if passion is a required ingredient for success, don't do it.
Thanks for such a comprehensive list! I use witch hazel as an astringent/skin toner daily--it's very soothing. I read somewhere that it has anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties as well...
I'm going to play devil's advocate. I think that this ubiquitous advice is potentially very harmful. If work was supposed to be fun, they would call it vacation and you would pay them to go there.
I used netflix with the dvds and streaming. Occasionally I'll buy the discounted theater tickets at work. I always go the first weekend showing which is a discount at the theater chain closeby.
thank you zorcy. one more question tho. in making brandy from wine do you need to add yeast and let it ferment again or just distill the wine. thanks. jarrett
I use netflix, both the dvds and streaming video. My work has discount tickets for the movie theaters and I go to the first showing on saturday morning for their "Before Noon" special.
I use netflix, both the dvds and streaming video. My work has discount tickets for the movie theaters and I go to the first showing on saturday morning for their "Before Noon" special.
My top two fave ways to watch movies are Netflix and Hulu. I also like to go to the theater as much as I can, I'll go on the weekend and the first matinee of the day is only $6 so I treat myself to one film Saturday and one film Sunday...and I'm spending the amount I'd pay for just ONE evening showing.
We don't watch a lot of movies. Frankly we have a good-sized DVD library - but we never watch it. We'd prefer to watch on tv (yes, even with commercials). I suppose that's so "the man" can flip to other stations and see if something "more important" is on.
1) No cable package, so over the air TV (mainly pbs). 2) Netflix DVD. 3) Netflix Instant Watch. 4) Hulu. 5) Library 6) Websites like comedy central. 7) Redbox 8) We may go to a theatre showing every 6 months or so.
I’m not sure why anyone pays for cable anymore. A few years ago I had everything and was paying north of $125/month. That’s $1500/year. You can do a lot of things with $1500/year besides be lazy and get fat on the couch. The first year we cut out cable, my wife and I saved the money and went to Hawaii. It was 1000% worth cutting cable for. Now we limit TV and idle entertainment (TV/video games/etc.) to 2 or 3 hours per week. If there is a show we really want to watch, we get it via one of the other sources above. I use TV as just a news source or to let my son watch cartoons in the morning (but that’s even limited).
I love Netflix and my Roku player. I am on the 4-at-a-time plan and I have about 200 movies/tv shows in my instant queue, so I always have something to watch! I almost never watch "regular tv" anymore. We go to the movie theater about once every two months. I usually have no idea what is even playing in the theaters unless EVERYBODY is talking about it. That little Roku player has saved me tons of money that I used to spend at Blockbuster.
Love it... great write up. I push this mindset on as many people as I can because I think everyone should have the opportunity to love what they do.
The problem most can't/don't, as I see it, is because their debt hinders their ability to leave their current positions. To this I say, GET OUT OF DEBT, then go find and work in your passions. :)
Mainly Netflix. My fiance and I would watch free tv shows online and visit the dollar theatre every so often (once every 4 months?) and save up to watch movies we really really want to watch in the theatre (like Ironman 2!). We also watch some Asian shows so we have downloaded a specific player to stream it online.
Last year, we decided to dump the expensive HBO, Showtime and the like from our Dish account and moved over to Netflix. Most of the programming wasn't to our liking to begin with.
We still can enjoy the series and specials these channels offer, albeit, a bit later than the original air date. But what the heck! Living simply often means delaying gratification, a nice bonus for the soul in this "on demand" world.
We've never regretted our decision to switch to Netflix Plus, we see documentaries and foreign films that wouldn't come to the rural area where we live.
Last year, we decided to dump the expensive HBO, Showtime and the like from our Dish account and moved over to Netflix. Most of the programming wasn't to our liking to begin with.
We still can enjoy the series and specials these channels offer, albeit, a bit later than the original air date. But what the heck! Living simply often means delaying gratification, a nice bonus for the soul in this "on demand" world.
We've never regretted our decision to switch to Netflix Plus, we see documentaries and foreign films that wouldn't come to the rural area where we live.
ING Direct is the main one I was thinking of, although I know that Merrill Lynch's cash management account lets you do this.
It turns out to be surprisingly difficult to Google for, because the term sub-account is used for other things.
I guess, after having yearned for it myself and then eventually figuring out that it was a wrong-headed way to look at my finances—and only then finding that it was available several places, such as ING Direct—I may have jumped to the conclusion that it was more widely available than it is. Sorry if that's not true.
From the point of the view of the bank, it's really the same thing whether you call it separate accounts or sub-accounts, right? I mean, the vault doesn't have one separate box for your money, let alone a dozen for your various sub-accounts. I suppose if it has a valid account number that would let you transfer money from someplace else directly in, that would make it a full account rather than a sub-account. But either way it's just bookkeeping entries at the bank, nothing real that's being done differently with your money.
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Always Netflix. We have roku too. It's great for watching whole episodes of TV shows. We have no movie rental place in town now, so this is definately the way to go. We rarely go to the movies unless we get a gift card. We also have a family-run movie theater in town that we try and patronize as they work really hard at only having G, PG and PG-13 movies only.
I use New York City's public library. There's a branch down the street from work, so I can put up to 10 movies on hold and then pick them up during my lunch break. NYPL has a large selection of movies and if I remember to get a hold on as soon as a new movie comes out it usually only takes a couple a weeks or so to arrive. Usually I get 1-2 new movies per week, which works out perfectly as I only watch on the weekends. If I wanted a movie right away I could always go visit a branch and pick one out from what is available.
I watch movies at home on HBO and Showtime
Danger! Danger! There usually comes a point where you have to begin to associate your passion with deadlines, angry customers, the need to make a living, the need to be passionate full time and then doing that for years. This can easily turn the passion into the exact opposite. The "I love my work" statement and it's cousin (If you don't love your work find some work you love) seems predominately to be made by those who have only worked in the field of their passion for a couple of years. Being passionate for 15 years or more is pretty rare, so you gotta have an exit plan. In particular, once you're no longer passionate about your passion, what's your passion going to be; obviously it'll be hard to leave your career at that point. So good advice in the short term, but it has some undesirable long term consequences.
I'd say, find some work which you're not necessarily passionate about but which you do well and which does not require you to be passionate about it to work with it. In other words, if passion is a required ingredient for success, don't do it.
Thanks for such a comprehensive list! I use witch hazel as an astringent/skin toner daily--it's very soothing. I read somewhere that it has anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties as well...
I'm going to play devil's advocate. I think that this ubiquitous advice is potentially very harmful. If work was supposed to be fun, they would call it vacation and you would pay them to go there.
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I used netflix with the dvds and streaming. Occasionally I'll buy the discounted theater tickets at work. I always go the first weekend showing which is a discount at the theater chain closeby.
thank you zorcy. one more question tho. in making brandy from wine do you need to add yeast and let it ferment again or just distill the wine. thanks. jarrett
I use netflix, both the dvds and streaming video. My work has discount tickets for the movie theaters and I go to the first showing on saturday morning for their "Before Noon" special.
I use netflix, both the dvds and streaming video. My work has discount tickets for the movie theaters and I go to the first showing on saturday morning for their "Before Noon" special.
That popcorn tip is pretty darn good. I'm going to try that tonight when hubby and I curl up on the couch for netflix night. Thanks!
don't have cable, use netflix with Roku, also stream to the computer. Have not been to the movies in years.
Redbox! $1 per DVD is hard to beat. They also send you codes for free rentals.
I try to make fee movies on cable like HBO i try not to order pay per views cause I hate when the charge shows up on my bill.
Watch for free is my moto....
My top two fave ways to watch movies are Netflix and Hulu. I also like to go to the theater as much as I can, I'll go on the weekend and the first matinee of the day is only $6 so I treat myself to one film Saturday and one film Sunday...and I'm spending the amount I'd pay for just ONE evening showing.
We don't watch a lot of movies. Frankly we have a good-sized DVD library - but we never watch it. We'd prefer to watch on tv (yes, even with commercials). I suppose that's so "the man" can flip to other stations and see if something "more important" is on.
1) No cable package, so over the air TV (mainly pbs).
2) Netflix DVD.
3) Netflix Instant Watch.
4) Hulu.
5) Library
6) Websites like comedy central.
7) Redbox
8) We may go to a theatre showing every 6 months or so.
I’m not sure why anyone pays for cable anymore. A few years ago I had everything and was paying north of $125/month. That’s $1500/year. You can do a lot of things with $1500/year besides be lazy and get fat on the couch. The first year we cut out cable, my wife and I saved the money and went to Hawaii. It was 1000% worth cutting cable for. Now we limit TV and idle entertainment (TV/video games/etc.) to 2 or 3 hours per week. If there is a show we really want to watch, we get it via one of the other sources above. I use TV as just a news source or to let my son watch cartoons in the morning (but that’s even limited).
I love Netflix and my Roku player. I am on the 4-at-a-time plan and I have about 200 movies/tv shows in my instant queue, so I always have something to watch! I almost never watch "regular tv" anymore. We go to the movie theater about once every two months. I usually have no idea what is even playing in the theaters unless EVERYBODY is talking about it. That little Roku player has saved me tons of money that I used to spend at Blockbuster.
Love it... great write up. I push this mindset on as many people as I can because I think everyone should have the opportunity to love what they do.
The problem most can't/don't, as I see it, is because their debt hinders their ability to leave their current positions. To this I say, GET OUT OF DEBT, then go find and work in your passions. :)
Mainly Netflix. My fiance and I would watch free tv shows online and visit the dollar theatre every so often (once every 4 months?) and save up to watch movies we really really want to watch in the theatre (like Ironman 2!). We also watch some Asian shows so we have downloaded a specific player to stream it online.
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Last year, we decided to dump the expensive HBO, Showtime and the like from our Dish account and moved over to Netflix. Most of the programming wasn't to our liking to begin with.
We still can enjoy the series and specials these channels offer, albeit, a bit later than the original air date. But what the heck! Living simply often means delaying gratification, a nice bonus for the soul in this "on demand" world.
We've never regretted our decision to switch to Netflix Plus, we see documentaries and foreign films that wouldn't come to the rural area where we live.
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Last year, we decided to dump the expensive HBO, Showtime and the like from our Dish account and moved over to Netflix. Most of the programming wasn't to our liking to begin with.
We still can enjoy the series and specials these channels offer, albeit, a bit later than the original air date. But what the heck! Living simply often means delaying gratification, a nice bonus for the soul in this "on demand" world.
We've never regretted our decision to switch to Netflix Plus, we see documentaries and foreign films that wouldn't come to the rural area where we live.
ING Direct is the main one I was thinking of, although I know that Merrill Lynch's cash management account lets you do this.
It turns out to be surprisingly difficult to Google for, because the term sub-account is used for other things.
I guess, after having yearned for it myself and then eventually figuring out that it was a wrong-headed way to look at my finances—and only then finding that it was available several places, such as ING Direct—I may have jumped to the conclusion that it was more widely available than it is. Sorry if that's not true.
From the point of the view of the bank, it's really the same thing whether you call it separate accounts or sub-accounts, right? I mean, the vault doesn't have one separate box for your money, let alone a dozen for your various sub-accounts. I suppose if it has a valid account number that would let you transfer money from someplace else directly in, that would make it a full account rather than a sub-account. But either way it's just bookkeeping entries at the bank, nothing real that's being done differently with your money.