Every month a hundred dollars in the bank. More time spent doing productive things. Perhaps a better cushion if someday I go to school full time.
Hmmm. Has it been worth it to be able to talk TV with everyone, and to be able to turn my brain off and fill it with Miss Rap Supreme & The Soup periodically? How much would I miss it? Will Grey's Anatomy get better such that I don't want to wait for DVD? Would my friends get irritated at me asking them to tape things periodically?
Plus this icon could return to circulation. :) Thoughts, comments, self-righteous anti-TV rants and reactionary pro-TV hype welcome.
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Netflix membership (which I seem to already redundantly have) is certainly cheaper, and a more worthy business to support (IMHO).
I will say that with the DVR I feel like in one way I have lots of freedom. OTOH I watch WAY more crappy shows than I ever would if they weren't there for me to have at a moment's notice.
If I can curb my bag habit, possibly.
But then I got an A in my last class even so.
If you did decide to do without, I'm sure we could tivo for you as long as yours don't compete with his shows.
Well, you can see the rationalizations piling up already.
Oh yeah, and the fact that Declan would kill us in our sleep to exact his vengeance for taking away his Noggin.
The older I get the less I feel like I have to keep current, and sometimes I do feel like I could just get everything on Netflix eventually anyway. But, like you, I don't really like watching TV on the computer and there do remain a few things I like watching in "real time," i.e. along with/around the same time as other people I know. TV can be a unifier in an increasingly diverse and fractured society. Plus, all that stuff on the DVR for when you're sick! =)
I can see both sides, is the problem. If I were you I'd... be looking for other ways to cut a few bucks, probably. =) And if it's a time issue, weren't you wondering when you'd have time to really get serious about learning photography to make use of that DSLR? Er, I suppose with less TV one would have more time for that...
Sometimes I think you are almost too good at burning the candle at both ends and maybe the occasional "out" of a night of TV is a help, not a hindrance. As you note, the DVR is freeing - and you definitely do NOT strike me as someone who is a slave to her TV habits.
I may not be a slave to TV habits in the sense of a schedule, but what having cable does to me is gets me to watch lots of things I would never, ever miss if I didn't have them. (I knew this would happen when we got cable.) It's like candy, only stupider, because I actually miss candy when it's gone.
So, we do not have cable now. I do watch some TV with bunny ears behind my 46" LCD. My mom thinks that's funny.
Recently Andrew has been saying that he wants the whole FIOS package, cable included. He argues that we would have better reception and cartoons at all times for Maggie. I argue that I am powerless in the face of cable and the only way that I *don't* watch TV is by having only TV from the air. Besides, Maggie doesn't need to have cartoons at her command and has only recently not been glued to various movies. I also argue that in the case where I am able not to sit around like a lump with cable, what is the point of paying so much money for something that we'll use 12 hours a month. Thankfully, FIOS isn't actually ready in my hood yet.
What I guess I'm saying is that if you give up cable I would argue that even Kim, who loves TV, gave up cable so she would be more productive. I think this is a logical fallacy for my stance, but it sounds good. :)
Additionally, I do rely on Netflix for previous season shows, and am happy enough with that. But that's me. Living alone I suspect I'd miss not having a tv at all but not having full cable does mean I read more.