Money Savvy Tip: Redbox for DVD Rentals

·         New movies are added every Tuesday.

·         They are typically located in most McDonald’s, some Walmarts, and a few grocery stores. 

·         You can look online at www.redbox.com for the locations closest to you.  You can also search for which movies are available at each location.  It saves you the time and hassle of driving to different places if the movie you want isn’t available.  To that end, you can also rent a movie online.  This isn’t the same as Netflix where it downloads to your computer.  It is really just a hold at the machine so no one else will rent your movie before you can drive over there.  You still need to go to the machine to pick it up after you rent it. 

·         You can buy used DVD’s from Redbox machines for only $5!  This is my favorite feature of Redbox – New release movies with just a few miles on them that you can get for 75% off what you’d pay retail.  This option is not offered at all locations, so you may need to search around.  I always look at the “for sale” movies first – for an extra $4, we can buy it and then I don’t have to worry about returning it!  We bought Transformers this way and definitely got our money’s worth.  However, I think more people are using this feature because when I checked the “for sale” ones at the location near me last week, there wasn’t a very good selection.