Our Christmas Movie Lineup

Here’s our Christmas movie lineup – all the movies we love and how I aim to watch them all for FREE. Share your must-watch holiday movies in the comment section below. 

There’s nothing quite like a holiday-movie marathon to add to the magic of the season. Most of the time we keep tech to a minimum but our December is filled with cuddles on the couch watching the classics.

Christmas Movie Lineup: My Strategy

If you don’t already have the DVD (and still own a DVD player for that matter), my strategy is trying to keep our holiday movie marathons totally free! I know this will be different for all of us. We have Telus cable and I’ve noted beside each movie title where I found all of our fave movies to watch.

As of about a week ago, I sought out our faves and made sure I scheduled them for recording ahead of time. Many of our favourites often play on regular cable in December. What I do is first check Netflix. If the movie I’m searching for isn’t there then do a search on cable. I typically find it here and record it. This way we can watch it all season long for free. If it’s not on regular cable, I then check Crave through Telus, and then my last resort is paying On Demand.

Christmas Movies I Love To Watch Solo

I’m a rom-com lover so there’s nothing quite like curling up with a giant bowl of popcorn and a glass of wine (Hello, Olivia Pope) and getting all the feels from some magical Christmas romance. Here are my faves:

• Love Actually– Found this one for FREE on Crave through Telus.
• The Holiday– recorded this one (FREE) through cable.
• The Family Stone– only available On Demand.
• The Family Man– only available On Demand.
• Four Christmases– only available On Demand.
• Serendipity– only available On Demand.

Christmas Movies We Watch As A Family (Or Just Me and My Hubs)

• One Magic Christmas– only available On-Demand.
• Polar Express– recorded this one (FREE) through cable.
• Elf- recorded this one (FREE) through cable.
• Home Alone (1&2)– available on cable but no recording, Also available On-Demand.
• The Grinch– FREE on Crave through Telus.
• Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer– recorded this one (FREE) through cable.
• An Elf’s Story– (I still cannot find this one anywhere)! Any ideas?
• Miracle on 34 Street– recorded FREE on cable.
• A Christmas Story– recorded FREE on cable.
• Christmas Vacation– On-Demand only.

Share your comments below! What’s your favourite holiday movie and what is your ritual for watching it?

xx