DVD Tourism:
How to Harvest a Collection


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Depending on how many movies you buy, rent and download during a given year you may want to consider the following course of action: Suffer through the next few months without viewing a single movie. Take some of the money you've saved and buy a plane ticket to China. Once you get here, you can use the rest of your savings to purchase every single movie you missed, pay for lodging and meals and probably still have some change left over for tooling around Asia.

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