Watch Your Movies While Saving Money On Cable
Okay, so cable television is not a necessity, but it's pretty nice to have around, right? So, when you are making your budget and you're looking for places to cut costs, you might want to circle the cable bill and get rid of it until you wonder what you will do to replace it for entertainment. You've come up against a brick wall, taken out your cash advance to cover a shortfall, but still need to make some cuts. Here are a couple of alternatives.
If you live near a second-hand DVD or tape rental business, you can decide to rent movies only when you have the spare cash in your budget. Instead of paying a monthly fee for cable, you can simply rent the movies used from a second-hand used movie rental shop. As long as you have a DVD player or tape player, you are in business. Nowadays, you can get those for about $30. People even give their VCR players away when they upgrade to DVD players. However, make sure you are terminating the cable contract without owing termination fees or you will need to take out yet another cash advance for several hundred dollars.
Another option besides Netflix, which will tie you into a contract similar to cable, are some new DVD rental machines at your local grocery stores. Instead of getting old movies, you can rent new movies for $1/day. At that rate it might take renting at least 40 movies a month to equal your cable bill. Instead of running around to get a cash advance to pay your cable bill to avoid the late fee, simply get rid of the cable bill and rent from the automated machine. If you return them late, it's still only $1/day. There are no late fees with that system.
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