Married Life

A MoviePass Review

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.

The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives

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June 1, 2016 marks a very momentous occasion for me and my husband, Jonah. We were married on June 1, 2014 so some might say that today is our two year anniversary {and of course, they would be correct} but it is also so much more than that.

For the past two years, and really during the entire time that Jonah and I have known each other, we have both been college students. Those who know me understand that I am a numbers person so it won’t surprise them to know I actually did the math to figure out how much time Jonah and I have dedicated to school since our relationship began. The final count came to over 8,150 hours {for context, there are about 8,760 hours in a year}. During this time, we were both also employed full-time and involved in extra-curricular activities. While we enjoyed our life together, it was no secret that we were counting down the days until graduation.

Finally, May 14, 2016 arrived and the transformation began. We graduated. We celebrated with our friends and family. We went to Disney World. We had a couple of days off for Memorial Day. And now we are here.

• June 1, 2016 •

I know you are supposed to start resolutions at the beginning of the year. But for us, today is the first day of the rest of our lives and here are a few goals we have set for our relationship.

  1. Develop relationships with the people in our lives.  With so much going on these past couple of years, Jonah and I have not been able to spend much time with people outside of work and school. We would love for that to change!
  2. Have date nights. This was pretty much a foreign concept about 3 weeks ago. We are so excited to get to spend more time together and can’t wait for our relationship to grow.
  3. Take better care of ourselves. I mean…we tried. But honestly, frozen pizza and ramen noodles were the most practical choice many nights. We would have loved to cook more at home but “ain’t nobody got time for that.” Now that we have graduated, we are going to make a major effort to eat healthier options and get a work out in every now and then.

Those are the three big ones. Of course we also want to continue growing in our relationship with Jesus Christ and keeping Him at the center of our marriage. He has given us so many blessings and we are eager to see what He has in store for our future!

Thanks for reading.

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