Our video lab technicians love putting together the annual comedy video. Hope you' ll be able to join us again next year.

Got a secret crush on the guy from the video store?

"My impression is that parents really believe these videos are good for their children, or at the very least, not really bad for them, " Ms. Rideout said.

"That was me, the lonely hunker-down type, " he tells us, in an opening voice-over, glossing a shot of himself as a clerk in a video store.

All can save with some time-honored traditions that never go out of style, like passing down toys and clothes, and taking the kids to the library instead of the book or video store.