Redbox

I have discovered the glory of Redbox. They are in pretty much every HyVee in Omaha, which is fairly convenient in my opinion. The rentals are only $1.07 ($1 + tax) per night. So, if you have a grocery store on the way home, or fairly close to your home it's pretty easy to grab a movie or two, take them home, watch them and return them the next night. You have to return the movies by 9pm the next night or you're charged for another night. However, I rented 3 movies when I was sick and returned them after 9pm but only paid $6.42 for all three movies. Still a pretty good deal. Less than Blockbuster.

The way it works is you can either reserve your movies online by creating a login and picking out what you want to rent or you can pick out your movies in the store at the kiosk. The good thing about creating a login online is that it will e-mail you when you've made your reservation, when you've picked up your movie, when you've returned your movie and when they've charged your credit card so you have a paper trail for the whole process. All you have to do is walk up to the kiosk, swipe your card and it dispenses your movie(s).

They kiosks look something like this:

The disks dispensed look like this:

When you return them, you just hit the return button and stick the disc in the side of the kiosk and you're good to go.

So far I've rented 27 Dresses, P.S. I Love You, Atonement, and Waitress (yes, all girly movies because John wouldn't want to watch them with me so I watched them while I was sick). I liked 27 Dresses the best out of all of them and honestly that's the one I expected to like the least. I thought the other three were too depressing.