My oldest son Allen has a friend whose mother is the Manger at one of the previously mention McDonald's. She had some free RedBox movie rental codes, and decided to give our family a few of them. I stuck them in my wallet, and carried them around for about a month.
In May, around my 9 year anniversary, my wife and I went out on a date. We had a great time. My wife is a photographer, and very good one at that (Simpson Studios). She did the wedding portraits for a friend at a great discount a while back, and the friend gave here a gift certificate to a local Salon/Spa for a couple's massage. Neither of us had ever had a massage, so we put off using that gift for quite a while. Well on this anniversary date, we decided we would cash in on all these free gifts we had been holding on to for so long.
Tami and I got all the kids settled away with various friend for sleep overs, the others off to Grandma's, and headed off on our wonderful and amazingly cheap anniversary date. We started off the night with a glorious, and sometimes painful couple's massage. It felt great, but if you have never done this before, be prepared for some soreness the next day. They did warn me about that and told me to drink a lot of water. It was painful at times, but boy was it worth it. We decided to have a nice romantic dinner at a not so romantic place, Zaxby's. Actually it was really nice. We were the only ones in the restaurant for most of the meal, and we just sat there and talked for a couple of hours. It is a rare thing for a couple with four children to be able to simply sit and enjoy each others company without being pulled away by "thuds" in the other room, or cries for justice from a child who was wronged by a sibling. Plus they had Cherry Coke and good ice, Tami's favorite.
We topped the night off with a trip to McDonald's down the road for dessert and a movie. We pulled up to the RedBox, and hopped out of the van. This was the first time I had ever really looked at the thing up close. We looked over the DVD box art on the big movie board, in an effort to make our selection, while the couple in front of us finished up their transaction. We made pretty short work of our choice, "27 Dresses". Yes I do actually like chick flicks, a nice bonus for my wife. When it was our turn, we pushed a few images on the touch screen, and finally figured out how to push them in the right order, but were a little bummed to see that our selection was not available. We had not considered that this was a possibility, so we quickly went through the list of available movies and finally settled on "P.S. I love you". We scanned our Credit Card, entered our email address, and a few moments later the machine whirred and made some funny noises, and out came a little square case with our movie in it. All in all a pretty painless experience, and it is hard to beat the price of $1 a night.
Watch the video below, and visit Inside Redbox. OK, I know, he is promoting my competition, but he is showing you how to get a bunch of free movie, I just had to pass that along. Don't forget to return your movies, because your free movie is just for the first day. Even if you don't return it for a while, it is just a buck a day. Enjoy the freebies!!!!
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