By now the saving you can get by renting at Redbox has been announced far and wide.  Though if you haven’t heard here’s the gist.  If you rent from your local video store, which last time I was in was around $3.99 for 3 nights, but that is the same price if you just keep it for one night.  Where at Redbox it’s only a dollar per night.  So if as with the majority of us you only need one night to watch your movie you are saving $2.99 on rental fees when you return it the next day.  And since you can return it to any Redbox you save on gas as you probably pass one on your way to work or in your daily errands.

I tried the in the mail Netflix for awhile but I never seemed to return them fast enough for it to be a deal for me.  Plus since I had to choose the movies in advance I sometime was just not in the mood to watch what came in.  So in the end I wound up having them for a week or more and/or losing their envelope, which just lead to more work and time.

So when the Redbox came around I was skeptical and not sure if I wanted to have to drive for my videos again.  But I have to say that it can be the deal it claims as long as you remember to take them back the next day, which with the growing number of locations should be easy enough.  Last I saw they not only have them at your local McDonald’s but now convenience stores seem to be getting them too.

But of course what I love the most is that they send out free codes to your mobile phone every Monday so that you can get a free rental every week!  Yes I know what’s the catch, well if you get it back on Tuesday none, but if you are lazy you will have to pay for any days you keep it out pass the first.  Now on top of that they run promotions off and on that adds Wednesday also.  So that you can get two free rentals in one week.  Now if you don’t want the text messages sent to your phone becasue it costs you don’t worry you can visit the Redbox Blog and get it there.  Now I have heard, though to be fair haven’t tried it yet, that the code works only once per credit card used.  That means that if you have three cards you can rent three rentals with the same code.  So if you have credit cards just lying around not earning their keep you can use them to get free weekly rentals at your locla Redbox….just remember to return them the next day so they are free!

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