Cable Free!

Yes my friends, my hubby and I have made our house cable free! While we were on vacation watching mindless TV during a thunderstorm (we were watching Law and Order reruns), I casually asked him what he thought about cancelling cable. He looked at me funny and then we decided to look online to see exactly how much we were paying for cable (we didn't really know because we have cable, internet, home phone, and cellphones all on one bill). To our amazement our cable bill was 1/3 of our total bill. Of course we could cancel cable.

As soon as we got home from vacay I called the cable company and scheduled the cancellation for yesterday. We hooked up the Amplified antenna deal, a VGA cable (for the computer) and were all set. We have a total of 17 channels (2 of them are spanish, 5 of them are Christian). The VGA cable hooks my laptop to the TV and we watch the shows we miss (no more DVR) online. Yes my friends you don't need to spend money on DVR, just wait a day and catch the latest episode online and watch it through your TV. AMAZING!

The day before we cancelled our cable I kept thinking do we really want to do this. Then I remembered that as a child we didn't have cable at my dad's house (our primary residence). We were not allowed to watch TV, we were told to read a book, play outside or do chores. At my mom's house however there was cable and we could watch cartoons and movies etc. After thinking of this I said we can totally cancel our cable. More will get done around our house and soon we'll forget what our "favorite" shows are (I kid you note we watch/DVR'd about 15-20 shows). We can live with out all that stuff.

So if you ever think to yourself, should we cancel cable? You should answer YES! Because you can live without cable! Read a book, go for a walk or clean your house! What a valuable lesson I learned as a child that well took me 20 yrs to realize what they were teaching us.