How do we get our ideas of what to watch, Part 1?

Today's source of inspiration is the great book, The Best Old Movies for Families by Ty Burr. I've got this from our local library but you can find it at new and used book stores. While there are larger guides for films out there and Ty has his own bias, it's full of inspiration to get you through several years of weekly viewing

For us, the main bias is that Ty has two girls and we have two boys. So while his girls love Katherine Hepburn, my guys can only take small doses of her. Ty's great at detailing why he selected a movie and how his girls' react (and he inspired us to do the same type of service via this blog).

You can read the book and get lots of ideas, but how do you put them into rotation? For me, I doing it two ways. First, while we've got our gift subscription to Netflix Blu-rays, I am adding all the ones I think would be a good fit for us into my Netflix queue if Netflix has them on Blu-ray. This is a special treat for us and are trying maximize it's use while we have it.

Next, I keep a list on my local library web site, titled Family Movies. I then can move them from the list to the Hold as I want to. I always try to keep about two titles at home for us in case we have a day off (which means "Movie Night") or bad weather. Plus it's fun to talk around the dinner table about what we will watch that night.

A friend keeps lists on her iPad via Evernote. I think Pinterest could work well too.