Cheap Christmas Gifts: DVDs
With Christmas within less than a month (is it that time already?) and the holiday season in full gear I’m sure your mom, sister and girlfriend are all about getting the “right” gifts for everyone (which is a thinly disguised plot to shop more) and your dumb ass is waiting for the 24th to pick something up for them so you don’t feel embarrassed come Christmas day (I’m speaking on personal experience here). If your like me and money is always tight, DVDs are probably the cheapest thing to get anyone. Everyone likes movies and has their own personal favorites, all you have to do is get the right movie for the right person. In order words, don’t get your mom 300 unless she likes a movie about 300 half naked roman soldiers mercilessly slaying mythical creatures and barbarians (on second thought).
You see the personal aspect of selecting a movie that your special someone likes will get you the Christmas glory, you know the “Oh I love this” and the “Wow this is my favorite movie” and my personal favorite “Oh how thoughtful”. At the same time getting some DVDs wont really burn away all your holiday beer and weed month either (or your holiday strip club money). So I looked into which place is giving the best deal for DVDs and came across our old time favorite ColumbiaHouse.com.
For those of you too young too remember ColumbiaHouse.com used to send those cool ads to your house with all the pictures of album covers telling you to get 100 cds for 1 penny (something like that). Well now with the overwhelming popularity of cds (sarcasm), ColumbiaHouse.com has jumped into the world of DVDs. Since you can’t exactly give your girlfriend a bootleg copy of The Notebook (well you can, but you’ll probably be alone by New Years), you have to buy the real thing. DVDs sell for any where between $5 for real old movies at Walmart to $40 for brand new DVDs with the special fx surround sound thing a ma jigs. But usually they are around $20 to $30. So if you have to buy say five DVDs your probably going to spend over $100.00. How can you cut costs?
ColumbiaHouse.comhas a deal where you get five DVDs for .49 cents with free shipping for all five DVDs. All you have to do is you pick up another five DVDs for around $19.95 within the next two years. So let’s do the math…
1) 5 DVDs * .49 cents = $2.45
2) 5 DVDs * $19.95 = $99.75
Now shipping depends on where you live but at most it should be $5 = $25
3) Sub Total= $2.45 + $99.75 + $25
Total= $127.20
So basically you are paying $127.20 for 10 DVDs over the span of the next two years. That works out to $12.72 per DVD. Ultimately you are saving about $8 to $10 then if you bought the DVD from the store which is a 68-76% discount! As for the 5 DVDs you will receive for .49 cents you can give those as Christmas presents; one for mom, one for dad, one for your sister, one for your girl and one for you. The next five DVDs you get over the next two years can be given as birthday gifts, valentine’s gifts (haha), Christmas gifts (though you will probably need to re-up on DVDs) and if you don’t feel like downloading, for yourself.
Go now and get 5 DVDs for .49 cents and finish all your Christmas shopping in one shot check out ColumbiaHouse.com.
