For those of you who have been around me even a little bit in the last month, I’m sure you have heard me talk about {more like RAVE about} MoviePass. If you find you are not one of those fortunate souls, let me brief you.

MoviePass is a company that partners with movie theaters all over the country and gives you access to see any movie at any of those theaters for a monthly subscription fee of $30. There are two major restrictions: 1) You can only see one movie every 24 hours and 2) You cannot see the same movie more than once.

When my husband and I graduated college, purchasing a MoviePass subscription was the #1 item on his to-do list. I was quite hesitant as I didn’t think we saw enough movies to justify spending $60 per month ($30 for each of us).

I’m a Data Analyst so, naturally, I gave him all the facts.

“We only saw 11 movies between the two of us last year which cost us $132 {yes, I looked through all of our bank transactions — this is an accurate count}. If we spend $60 per month on MoviePass, we will be investing $720 per year ($60 x 12 months). There’s no way we can do that.”

He insisted that we give it a try and, since MoviePass has no contract obligation, I agreed we could test it out for one month.

Here are the results of my analysis.

As mentioned above, the 12 months previous to us subscribing to MoviePass, we purchased 11 tickets ($132.00) and spent $23.97 on food for a total of $155.97.

In comparison, during our first month of MoviePass, we purchased 19 tickets ($60.00) and spent $50.45 on food for a total of $110.45.

Now I know what you are thinking. “Grace was right. Spending $110.45 per month is WAY more than spending $155.97 per year.” And you’re right. If we keep going at the rate we are seeing movies and eating food, we will spend over $1,000 more this year on movies than we did last year.

But there’s another factor to be considered. We saw NINETEEN movies between the two of us in one month whereas we only saw ELEVEN movies between us in the previous year. When you take that into consideration, our PRICE PER MOVIE significantly decreased. Last year, we paid approximately $14.18 per movie and, this month, we only spent $5.81 per movie (food included).

So yes, I was right. MoviePass is MUCH more expensive. But when you consider the increase in value for the price you are paying, it’s really a no-brainer. Yes, there are a lot of other things we could do with $1,000 per year but now we get to have consistent date nights once a week {sometimes more!} doing something we both enjoy.

I absolutely love it and would recommend it to any of you DINKs (dual-income-no-kids) out there who enjoy the cinema.