Netflix Subscription Adjustment

Posted on | March 27, 2008 |

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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