Longest gone without buying a DVD?
03-27-06, 03:25 PM
#1
Inane Thread Master, 2018 TOTY
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Are any of us really anywhere?
Posts: 49,581
Received 941 Likes
on
788 Posts
Longest gone without buying a DVD?
I would be hard pressed to say anything more than 3 weeks to 1 month and that may even be a stretch. I seem to go through withdrawl if i don't. just when i think to myself there is nothing left i want to buy, something always pops up. it is a sickness.
so what is the longest you have gone without buying a single dvd?
so what is the longest you have gone without buying a single dvd?
03-27-06, 03:37 PM
#4
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Honolulu, HI
Posts: 2,394
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Because I work on call and some weeks have more hours than others, I have gone a few months between purchases as I had to pay my bills. Now that I have somewhat solid hours, maybe a month at the most and then I buy a bunch within a short period.
03-27-06, 03:39 PM
#6
DVD Talk Special Edition
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Mobile, AL
Posts: 1,411
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Lately, one-two weeks has been my max. If there's nothing good that week, I'll work on my backlog of "things I missed" or "things I recently became interested in".
03-27-06, 03:42 PM
#7
DVD Talk Reviewer
Since Geoff has sent me a steady diet of screeners over the past few years, I can safely say that I've gone months weeks days at a time without buying a single DVD boxed set. 
Last edited by Randy Miller III; 03-27-06 at 03:45 PM.
03-27-06, 03:57 PM
#8
DVD Talk Legend
About a week is the longest i can go before the withdrawals set in. Right now is probably the longest i have gone because i am holding off buying anything else (besides King Kong) so that the Planet of the Apes ape head set will be my 500th, which will be cool since that is my all-time favorite movie.
03-27-06, 04:59 PM
#10
DVD Talk Legend
Few months...Hell, it was probably 6 months from when I got my first few dvds ever until when I got more. My purchasing of dvds increased as my salaries got larger, and when I first got a dvd player I was still just a lolely old college student.
03-27-06, 05:16 PM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Falls Church, VA
Posts: 593
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Surely a few months though not as long as six months. I may go many many months without buying anything brand new though, especially around Christmas time when I know I'm going to get them as gifts 
03-27-06, 07:08 PM
#15
Sadly enough, this is exactly why I keep a spreadsheet. Good question BTW.
Since I started tracking ..
Longest drought: 57 days between Aug and Oct of 2001
Average between buys: 4.08 days
Not to crap the thread, but here's a few other interesting stats .. at least to me
Most purchases in one month: 35
Least purchases in one month: 0 (twice)
Average purchases per month: 8.38
Since I started tracking ..
Longest drought: 57 days between Aug and Oct of 2001
Average between buys: 4.08 days
Not to crap the thread, but here's a few other interesting stats .. at least to me
Most purchases in one month: 35
Least purchases in one month: 0 (twice)
Average purchases per month: 8.38
03-27-06, 08:56 PM
#18
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: The Pacific Northwest
Posts: 3,422
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
When I first moved back home, I left most of my stuff in storage back on the mainland (including my DVD's and player). Since I was living out of my suitcase for the better part of a year, and my Mom had no DVD player at her house at that time (1999), I didn't buy any DVD's at all. So I went a whole year then. After I shipped my stuff back home, and had a DVD player once again, the buying frenzy resumed. Under more normal circumstances, I think my longest buying drought lasted about 2 months.
03-27-06, 09:20 PM
#19
DVD Talk Legend
A few weeks I'd guess.
03-28-06, 05:11 AM
#24
DVD Talk Reviewer
I'll probably say three weeks to a month, and that was during a horrible sluggish time a couple years ago where nothing came out I really cared about. Now I have to cut back at the current time but I'll still buy probably one single DVD that's not too expensive every week (example, no tv box sets... damn, and I wanted the X-Files 4-6 too...).
