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]]> Our family does not watch a whole lot of television. My kids cannot sit still long enough to make it through even one episode of cartoons, without getting up to go find something more stimulating. We do, however, enjoy having movie night, on occasion. We have always been horrible at returning movies and losing them. Every trip to the video rental store cost a pretty penny in late/lost fees, from the previous month. Once those movies are in the house, I seem to forget that they are not ours. Then, one usually ends up MIA. Until, that is, the kids beg for another movie night. Then, that feeling of trepidation returns, as I know what look I’m going to get from the clerk who knows me as “That Lady.”

Then, the innovative idea of movie exchange programs, came into play. It seemed the answer to all of my late fee problems. There were no such things as late fees! We could exchange movies as often as we wished and as many times, per month. Hallelujah! Errrrrrk…pull the e-brake. There was one problem with the exchange program lies in the fact that you actually have to keep track of where the movie is. If you lose the movie, you buy the movie. Nothing in our house, ever stays where it should. Everything gets lost, at least once. This especially applies to things that do not belong to us. So, I still encountered the problem of paying out the nose for movies that we borrow.

The solution: knowing when to be content with what we have. We have decided to cancel our movie membership and just enjoy the movies that we already own. There are always weekend movies on cable television, if we scour the listing guide.  We will just have to learn to be happy with what we already have. When we decided that it is time to add to our collection, we will buy the movie and then watch it without the fear of late fees or lost fees. Then, when we eventually lose and find the movie (which we will,) it will be a nice surprise! Plus, it will save us the thirty dollar membership fee, which is always nice.

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