Couch Potato

How much does it cost to spend time on the couch? After spending $2 on "50/50" and $3 on "In Time" at Blockbuster Express in a two-day period, you start to think that if this goes on for a month period, you'll be spending a minimum of $75. And that is watching only one movie a day and keeping the movie for just one day. Each day the movie isn't returned, you are being charged the same amount it was charged the first day. If the movie got buried under your school books and old gym clothes in the trunk of your car for weeks on end, consider yourself one poor bastard.

So to cut down on that expense, we added a new expense through DirectTv cable to have Showtime, Cinamax, HBO and other channels that provides movies we would've had to rent. The upgrade is costing us another $40 bucks a month which makes the grand total close to $120. That's over$1500 dollars a year.

We've done careful calculation and found that in order to hit break-even point for each month, we need to watch at least 16 movies a month, which averages out to .5 movie per day. So in order to make a profit, we would have to watch one full movie each and every day of each and every month. This means no starting a movie and then stopping it half way through, no falling asleep during a movie, no talking on the phone or doing homework during a movie, no cooking or house chores or sex during a movie, no going a day without watching a movie, nothing. If we missed a movie today, we'd have to watch two the next. If we've powered through three movies today, we are good for the next two days. You get the idea.

How is this cheaper than renting one movie at a time? Well it's not. But one good thing is we are forced to cuddle, all the time, on the couch. DirecTv is charging us a monthly fee to sit on our couch, in our own living room, and cuddle. It's costly to be a couch potato, but we couldn't be happier.