My BFFHS (best friend from high school) Brenda lives out in the sticks, and gave rave reviews about her Netflix subscription, because it means she doesn’t have to worry about getting rental DVDs back on time when the nearest movie rental store is 30 miles away. I thought about the number of late fees I’ve paid on rental movies over the last year or so, and decided to check out the site.

After reading about the free 2-week trial, the fact that you can have 3 DVDs sent at a time, the umpty-thousands of titles available, and the “never any late fees” - of course I had to sign up! We’ve already received our first two movies, and watched one (“Reign of Fire”) & dropped it back into the mail. Our third should be here by Friday - although they told us our first couple would arrive “no later than Wednesday” and we got them on Tuesday! - and at this rate, we can easily watch the six movies per month necessary to make the subscription cost-effective even if you never have late fees at movie rental stores.

I figure we can see not only all the nifty new DVD releases, but indulge in plenty of re-watching old favorites and viewing a few silly movies that we ordinarily would never fork out $3.50 a pop for at a rental place. The movie arriving this Friday is “Auntie Mame,” which is one of the very few movies made before 1970 that I like at all. I seriously doubt that my local movie rental shop even has that movie in stock!