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A month without T.V. and counting...

I watch football all of the time, and if I couldn't, I do not know how I would live, to be honest. :eek:
 
BlackHills said:
I stopped watching the pros in '92 IIRC when I came to the conclusion that they were a bunch of overpaid crybabies. I don't miss it a bit. Try it, you too can do it. :)
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But they're exciting overpaid crybabies to watch. I've pared my life down to a very few things, but I'm hanging on to football.
 
Good for you, TF :thumbup:.

I don't watch TV anymore either, but I was never a TV show person anyway...instead I am a glutton for movies and novels. I still love movies, so usually if I'm watching something, it's a dvd. My GF likes to watch TV still, it's her relaxation and sewing time. The sheer number of frivolous and inane shows out there astounds me...

If I'm not on here, reading up on stuff for work, studying, putzing with my gear or knives, or playing a video game, then I'm reading for pleasure. Studying, late hours at work, and school applications have been eating up my time recently. I just ordered a load of post-apocalyptic and zombie books though...I miss pleasure reading :)
 
Except for the news and a few things on the Discovery or History channels (and football), I generally spend most of my time reading. Just donated a couple of hundred books to the library, and have another hundred or so waiting to donate. When you're retired, you have a lot of time on your hands. TV doesn't fill it for me.
 
We have a tv that only gets used for the occasional dvd. Very few of my friends have tv. I think that's because I have interesting friends. They're always out doing something.

My wife doesn't like me to tell people that we don't watch tv. She thinks it sounds snobby or elitist. I tell her that we ARE better than other people. :D
 
Talfuchre said:
Well - my wife and I have gotten rid of the T.V.

Well - it is still there, the kids watch PBS now and again, but I have not watched anything but the odd 10 minutes of a show before realizing I am not interested and turning it back off.

We are back to local channels and the CD channels - it is only 15 a month.

I don't miss it at all. I am on the computer too much probably, but mostly that is just to check up on Rick and my kids that he raises (Rick, can you buy my kids some new shoes? He is so cheap some times.) and feel better about my life because I am not him.

I am glad I found some people on this board that prompted me to let it go.


TF
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After a year or two, you'll start to see how TV has helped "brainwash" 99% of the public; you'll start to decide for yourself what "reality" is and what's really "the news." :thumbup:

Shoot the darn thing!

Stay sharp,
desmobob (14 years TV-free)
 
There is no life without FOX News. Our TV is set on that 90 percent of the time. However, it is equip with a power switch and nothing says it must be watched. It is like a toaster or cook stove, if we want or need it, we use it. I was 12 before I ever saw one. No TV but no electricity either., Running water meant running with a bucket.:)
 
i and my family are one month clean as well. we just decided it might be better for us.

ryan
 
Nice work. We haven't had a TV at all for going on a year now and haven't watched much for the 5 years before that. We do enjoy a show from Hulu now and then (about once a week).

The only thing we're missing is this: our daughter is going off to preschool this next week and at the open house, they told us that they would be closed if the public schools were closed for snow. My wife asked "How do we get that information?" and someone in the audience said "Channel 7! Duh!" and my wife just gave her a look like "You really don't get it do you?" Then someone who knows us said "You can get it online at the TV stations website".
 
Congratulations. I've always felt that t.v. is nothing more than pollution for the mind, especially for our children.
 
Sept. 17, 1979 I gave myself a birthday present: I quit TV! Budget myself 2 hours a day to read and explore knives and well as the nature that surrounds me. Sorry I wasted so much time when I was younger.
 
We still have the box hooked up, but I haven't watched it in ages, I thank my brother-n-law for keeping my time occupied with roofing jobs and helping him build his house.
 
Thats What I mean, do you control a electronic box or does it control you, If you are susceptible to being controlled, then there is no end to outside influence, it is all around us.

To me a TV or Radio or movie house is nothing more than another source of information or entertainment, use it or leave it set, I can't see why it should be a do it and die or turn it off and live.:confused:

You are right though, if YOU are going to let it effect your being in a bad way, Get rid of it, Haul it out, Run from it fast.:eek:
 
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