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We got fed up with the tv, so we junked it. This was last year, so it has been one year without tv for us.

We junked it because of a few reasons. Commercials was one reason. There were too many them. It has been a long time since anyone uttered on television “we will be back in 30 seconds after this commercial break”. Movies dragged out to late night due to the interruptions, tv shows had so many breaks that I lost interest in what I was watching. To top it all off, we were paying for this. We paid for cable tv, somebody’s marketing campaign.

Finally, my sons were laying around watching it too much. 24 hour Noggin channel, the ability to rewind and play the upper channels was just too much.

So, we canceled the cable to a very surprised cable company. lol.That felt good.

We brought the tv itself to a special dump.

Then we destressed. So, what happens when you quit TV? Ok, well, at first it’s a like an unhappy withdrawl. You think about all of the shows you are missing. Then you begin to do things to take up the time you would have spent watching tv. This led to new discoveries and going out to new places for us.

Then the first bill comes without tv, just internet connection and we found we are saving 100 bucks a month.

Over time, we learned that we can watch whatever movie we want online for free. We can see streaming news, tons of childrens shows and cancelled tv shows, like Picket Fences from the early 90’s and MST3000.  It’s very hard to just go back to boring old tv like we do in a hotel room. Although, the kids are mesmorized by a large tv set and thus very easy to control in a hotel room.

So, even though we can watch what we want online, we do it for a shorter time and it’s really what we want to watch, not just channel surfing.

I think it’s been worth it. Plus, the fact we see no commercials for this years “must have toys” has been it’s weight in gold.