Do people still have DVDs any longer? My husband and I do. I like them. Especially with our Netflix. I am CONVINCED someone at Netflix is having a good laugh on our behalf. We will be watching something . . . . it does not matter what . . . and right at the part you are waiting for it will start loading. I swear. At first my hubby and I got annoyed, but now it is just funny because it is so comical. It really as if there is someone who presses a button to stop the show from playing right when it is most important. It could be, “I know I have not told you the truth about anything your entire life. I know you are upset with me, but I had a very good reason. This is hard. You see I am — LOADING! — or “I love you, Sam. I have loved you since the moment I saw you.” (Sam opens her mouth and — LOADING! —). We have learned to laugh. Netflix will blame our carrier and that is fine. I don’t care who does it, it just happens and it is funny. So a DVD is nice, no commercial, no “LOADING”. Not “LOADING” or getting all messed up when we stop and start the show. No “LOADING” when we rewind. Just nice and simple viewing of the movie or TV show. But does anyone else have DVDs any longer? Well, I am late in learning this but I did just see it last week and that is ——–LOADING! ——— Just kidding. I just learned about a website called www.swapadvd.com
Cool! I am impressed. Granted when my hubby and I buy a DVD it is because we want to keep the movie or TV show to watch over and over. And that might sound odd to you — it did when I first met my husband — but it is something we do. But . . . there are a few exercise DVDs I might want to swap out. Yes! That is cool, huh? You can switch up your workouts by swapping exercise DVDs. So you could have a group of five let’s say that you do for 30 days, then put them on SwapaDVD and get a whole new set of workout DVDs. Do that set for a month, then swap again. Always keeping your workout varied. Of course, my “set of five for 30 days” is just an example. You could do one for two weeks. Whatever . . . . the point is that you can swap and mix it up.
When I first learned about this and thought about posting about it. I did a quick search of dance exercise DVDs and there is quite a few. And there are over 500 10 Minute Solutions DVDs. I love those because you can do a 10 minute workout when you are THAT pressed for time or program the DVD to play as many as you want to get a longer workout. There are yoga DVDs. In my quick search just now there seems to be a lot of pregnancy and yoga DVDs. That makes total sense. You are only pregnant for a limited time so you want to get rid of the DVD once you are not pregnant any longer.
The website’s info is below:
• You have original, playable DVDs that you do not want to keep.
• You post those DVDs to your “DVD Tower” to offer to other members.
• After you have posted the first 10 DVDs to your DVD Tower, you get 1 “gift” credit from SwapaDVD to get you started swapping (limit one per household). After that, you earn credits by sending out DVDs to others.
• You may order available DVDs for 1 credit per disc (some DVDs do cost more than 1 credit), plus a Swap Fee of $0.49 per item (no matter how many credits are in the item).
• If you want a DVD that is not currently available, you can place it on your Wish List and we will notify you by email when it is available for you to order. You can even have it sent to you automatically when it becomes available, with no email necessary.
• When a DVD is requested from you, we notify you by email, provide the address for you to send it out, and even provide a wrapper with postage printed on it if desired!
• Wrap and mail your DVD.
• When the requestor receives it, you earn 1 credit per disc mailed. Yes, you pay the postage to send out your DVDs, but when you request a DVD, the sender ships it to you and you pay 1 DVD credit (some DVDs do cost more than 1 credit)!
• The DVDs you receive from SwapaDVD are yours. We hope that you will repost them to share with other members when you have viewed them, but you can certainly keep them, or give them away. Similarly, the DVDs you send out to others belong to their new owners.
SwapaDVD is a great way to share DVDs with people all over the country!
I think that is pretty cool. What do you think? Do you still watch DVDs?
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