Netflix Subscription Adjustment

The Husband’s been bug­ging me for months now to down­grade our Net­flix sub­scrip­tion.  I’ve always resisted because I’ve liked the flex­i­bil­ity that our 3-at-a-time sub­scrip­tion allowed.  With 3-at-a-time, I could keep up a steady flow of The West Wing discs for me, have a weekly movie that The Hus­band and I have picked out, and allow The Son or The Daugh­ter to request some­thing or bring in a fam­ily movie or doc­u­men­tary — all at the same time.

Now, how­ever, I’ve finally watched every sin­gle episode of The West Wing (all 7 sea­sons).  That frees up one out of every three discs requested.

Also, The Daugh­ter is down to only two sports prac­tices a week but The Son’s prac­tice sched­ule just got heavy leav­ing us with only one night together as a fam­ily with any sort of movie-length free time.  The thing is, none of us like the idea of using that night, every sin­gle week, to watch a movie together.  Often, The Daugh­ter has home­work.  Or we feel like play­ing a game instead.  Or, as hap­pens most fre­quently, there isn’t any­thing that we’re all inter­ested in see­ing together.

So I finally gave in to The Husband’s wishes.  I couldn’t bring myself to down­grade all the way to 1-at-a-time so I only dropped us down one level to 2-at-a-time.  That will save us $3.00/month.

We’re open to upgrad­ing again for a while this sum­mer when The Daughter’s out of school and has, poten­tially, more free time (and, as a con­se­quence, we par­ents will have more free time too).  Last sum­mer not only did we have the 3-at-a-time sub­scrip­tion but we had three dif­fer­ent queues — one for The Daugh­ter, one for The Son, and one for me and The Hus­band to share.  We might well go back to the same arrange­ment this summer.

Then again, we might not.  The Daughter’s been talk­ing a lot lately about get­ting a job — an idea that The Hus­band and I are both encour­ag­ing (as long as it won’t inter­fere with her studies).

Also, now that The Daugh­ter has a driver’s license, she might spend more time with her friends this sum­mer and find that she has less time and less inter­est in watch­ing rental movies.  On the other hand, now that we’ve done the basic work nec­es­sary to con­vert the big base­ment room from a “play­room” into a “rec” room more appro­pri­ate for teenaged “hang­ing out”, maybe The Daugh­ter will spend more evenings at home enter­tain­ing friends, play­ing foosball, and watch­ing movies on her “new” TV.

How­ever things pan out this sum­mer, for now we’re a 2-at-a-time Net­flix fam­ily.  The Hus­band is happy, we’ll save $3 each month, and we’ll still man­age to watch plenty of movies.

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