Saturday, November 20, 2010

Adios cable...

Having a husband who works only part-time has been extremely rough on the finances lately. We've been doing pretty well selling items on ebay and half.com which has supplemented our income slightly (my husband is getting good at locating items at thrift stores and then posting them online). After getting billed over $100 for our satellite this month, I almost had a heart attack. I told him, NO MORE. Not only is cable bad on the budget, I've noticed that I spend way too many hours in front of the TV when I get home. I've been wanting to get out and do more things, i.e. learn how to sew, reorganize, read more books, take my dogs out..just do more.

I'm curious to know how many other people have given up cable for other reasons besides finances. I lived without cable for six years when I lived in England, only when I moved back did I get it. Now, I'm quite relieved that I won't have it any longer (and won't have to pay that bill!) The husband was quite resistant to eliminating it, but, happy wife, happy life, right? :)

5 comments:

FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com said...

I gave up cable because I wasn't in the apartment to watch it (was traveling so much).

I also found that it was mostly re-runs, a total time suck of my time and I wasn't really interested in what was on TV anyway.

Also helped that I didn't need to tote around that large TV any longer.

Anonymous said...

I gave it up because it was such a time waster for me. I spent too much time watching it and I could not even justify having it by saying it was for my kids. They were fine with doing away with cable.

Mark said...

I couldn't agree more! I watch reruns of shows that are years old. Yes there MAY be some shows that i get knowledge from but would I know the difference if I didn't have the ability to watch? NOPE!

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LL said...

@FB--I completely agree with you, funny how you say "time suck" because that's how I've been explaining it to my friends and family!

@Anonymous--It's great that your kids are on board with you! I don't know how many parents use cable as a crutch to deal with their children!

@Mark--Exactly! Being able to just watch the shows that you truly enjoy instead of ones to just fill your time is definitely much smarter. Besides, you just can't beat I Love Lucy, 60 years later that show never gets old!

suburban housewife said...

We gave up cable because we found that we only watched one hour of TV a week on premium channels and our bill was a whopping $175 a month I think!! Don't. miss. it. at. all!