Do You Have "Entertainment Debt"?

No, we're not talking about the kind of entertainment debt you can get into when you have a never-shrinking balance on your Best Buy credit card. This is a little less trouble and sometimes much more fun (especially with an empty Sunday afternoon)...

We saw this great little phrase first while browsing GeekSugar, but we have to say that "Entertainment Debt" is now a household name in our place—and we're sure many of yours!

GeekSugar defines "Entertainment Debt" as:

The term for having too much media to consume in too little time—including unwatched shows on your DVR, unspun Netflix discs, and unread magazines and items in your RSS reader.

They add that Entertainment Debt is surprisingly stressful for involving things that are supposed to be so much fun! But we say that we'd rather be in the entertainment red, with two fresh Netflix envelopes and a host of back episodes of A&E's Obsessed, than the entertainment green when a lazy Sunday afternoon rolls around.

Unplggd, do you keep yourself in entertainment debt with back episodes and movies on the queue? Or do you like to "pay-off" as soon as possible? Tell us in the comments!

Via GeekSugar

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Comments (4)

I find that I am always in entertainment debt, and I enjoy it. It's nice having a stockpile of options when I do find myself with a solid block of free time. Even then I usually have the television on as background noise while I browse the web.

posted by ominoustoad on August 10th 2009 at 11:23am
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Yes, and I do NOT enjoy it. I put the netflix subscription on hold and I cut down on the number of feeds and podcasts I subscribe to, but the things sitting on the TiVo and the people I have to tell, "wait we'll talk about it tomorrow" make me anxious! I can't believe I have entertainment debt and it is a problem. Summer is a wonderful TV free season, until next week that is, Mad Men are coming!

posted by Laurie on August 10th 2009 at 11:56am
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Yes I do but my kind of entertainment debt is for shows I can watch online but for a limited time only. So if I don't watch them within 7 days I have to wait till the dvd comes out and the shows I watch are pretty obscure so they are pretty impossible to find them on torrents as well.

posted by SJwashere on August 10th 2009 at 5:15pm
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Yes! I have a dozen books I've owned for over a year and have not read yet, a Netflix movie I've been holding onto for the past month because I haven't watched yet, half a dozen shows on my DVR waiting to be viewed and deleted, a bunch of DVDs I have not watched yet. I hate it. And my school semester starts next week so I'm pretty sure my debt will get bigger, especially with So You Think You Can Dance returning this fall.

posted by MCBfly on August 11th 2009 at 1:38pm
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