Renting DVDs can become expensive if you forget to return them on time, at the same time I don’t want to subscribe to a monthly rental service. A trick I’ve learnt recently is to buy DVDs instead from Amazon; popular DVDs are often available at ridiculously low prices you are often just paying a little more than the postage which for DVDs is just £1.25.

• Run, Fat Boy Run from £0.74
• Shaun Of The Dead [DVD] from £0.67

  We buy these DVDs watch them several times (or the kids do) and then give them to friends, no panic did we ever take that rental DVD back?