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Dollar Movies
The summer is a great time to go to the dollar movies, and yes, they still exist in many cities. The tickets usually cost $3.50 instead of $1, but that's still good when you have a family of six. The movies have been out of the real theaters by the time you see them at a dollar theater, which is about two months behind. In Spokane, the dollar movies are at the Garland Theater, which is huge and quite beautiful for an old movie theater. Yes, the floors are sticky, but who is going to complain? Oh, and every summer they show a free movie certain mornings, to help people get out of the heat. (Or to get them hooked on going to that theater so that they can stay in business throughout the year.)
We've watched several movies at this theater over the years, including “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and “Tangled.” It made us want to build boats out of sandwiches and float lanterns up into the sky. My kids love seeing movies on the big screen.
If you have a zero budget, another way to watch fun movies during the summer with your family is to get some entertaining DVD's from your library. Not all the videos are educational. Some of them are just for fun, and many are recent releases. Check them out, go home, pop yourself some popcorn, and declare a movie night!
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Webcaster Comment by Susan Evans on July 24, 2012 at 8:29am -
That's great, Daixin!
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Comment by Daixin Yin on July 24, 2012 at 1:31am -
There's a movie theater very close to where we live and they offer dollar kids movie (used to be free 2-3 years ago) during summer time. This summer I've been busy with so many different things that I haven't taken them there. Your post reminded me. It turned out that this week is the last week for dollar movie. We're going to the theater tomorrow!
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Webcaster Comment by Susan Evans on July 19, 2012 at 9:25am -
My kids love watching movies on the big screen, so I was excited to find the discount movie theater.
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Blogger Comment by Evonne Mandella on July 19, 2012 at 9:13am -
We like to watch free public domain movies online. It can be a pain, because they are uploaded in snippets, but there is a big variety. We like www.westernsontheweb.com :)
Thanks for the blog!
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