There’s a Yahoo Finance article you don’t see everyday: 9 Ways to Save on Movie Tickets at the theater. Great idea to run down ways to save because going to the movies is a huge expense these days. Not sure about the advice to find a Drive-in Theater… I haven’t seen one of those in years. Would love to try one again, but most of them are gone. Of course you could go to DriveInTheater.com and check out a handy list of drive-in theater’s by state.
Reading the article about saving money at the theater was also coincidental because we just went to a family movie yesterday for a bit of Saturday afternoon fun. But even in the movie theaters I found that inflation has taken its toll.
The article was right on about going to the theater at off times to save on pricing. However it’s not so easy anymore.
We arrived at the theater and were told that it now cost “evening prices” for our traditional afternoon matinee! I stood there in front of the ticket window, the hot sun at my back and not even 4:00 pm yet… and we’re paying evening prices for an afternoon movie? What will they think of next. The least they could do would be to call it “full pricing” or something other than “evening” pricing. Time to look for a different theater chain, but I suspect they’re all pricing movies about the same.
Maybe it’s time to try something different. Netflix anyone?!. Of course we don’t rent movies often, but it sure would cost a lot less. I suspect we’ll still head to the theater now and then. Sometimes the experience is worth the cost. But I don’t think we’ll be paying full price for a kid’s matinee again any time soon!
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