A Frugal Winter Project - and a Challenge?

Instead of spending lots to see movies or go shopping or go out to keep ourselves entertained over the LONG months of Minnesota winter, the Guy and I decided on a little project. We’re planning to see every single movie on the AFI’s Top 100 list… with a deadline of April 1st. The significance of April 1st is supposedly when Winter will have ended here in Minnesota and it is also the date for when we’ve planned to get a DOG! So the idea is to contribute what we would have spent on movie tickets ($10 each) and putting it toward the dog savings fund, everytime we see one on our list. (For now, we’re ignoring the fixed cost of Netflix).

So I looked through and we haven’t seen 75 of the movies (wow, I’m uncultured)…. Leaving us at a savings total of $750 each if we see all of them by then. Maybe we won't make it, but it will be a fun little winter project... want to take the challenge and put the savings towards your own savings goal? Customize it any way you'd like and leave a comment on this post if you want to take the challenge!

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Vertigo (1958)
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. Psycho (1960)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
18. The General (1927)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. Some Like It Hot (1959)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Sotry (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Intolerance (1916)
51. West Side Story (1961)
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
54. M*a*s*h (1970)
55. North By Northwest (1959)
57. Rocky (1976)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1958)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
73. Butch Caddidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990)
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Let me know if you want to take the Frugal Winter Project Challenge with a post! Oh, and let me know if you have favorite movies on this list where I should start!