So... we're going on 2 months now with no cable. I was expecting this to be a bit more dramatic, but what I found is I just don't really care. There isn't the time to watch much TV anyway. Sure there are times that I really do miss the other channels. Times when I am stuck nursing.. or playing in the living room with the baby (which usually means sitting with him to make sure he doesn't do any damage to himself or the house). Maybe when he's a bit older we can actually spend that time in a more productive way.. or play in a more of an interactive way by playing games or reading books. Right now, you pretty much sit and watch him roll around and then hand him things that are out of his reach. It would be nice to have something playing that wasn't an infomercial or This old house reruns .. but it's not that big of a deal. I don't feel like I am missing much. Our Winter, weekend routines have gotten to be pretty funny. Saturday night Dance party with a little of the old L Welk show mixed in there. How long that will last, I'm not sure.. but it will make for some pretty funny memories later on.
Do I feel all different and productive with the new free time? No. The baby is eating up all our time anyway so really it all just comes down to this...
Saving $50 a month =$600 a year on TV we aren't watching anyway.
perhaps we are even turning the tv off more.. saving a bit of change in the electricity bill..
In the big picture, that isn't a ton of money, it's not going to buy us a new house. If down the road we feel we want the cable back I'm not totally against it. We don't spend a lot of money on entertainment, so it's not about the money. I was hoping to feel a bit more freedom with the cable gone but that just hasn't happened, yet. Perhaps when the weather gets nicer.. and Emmett gets a bit older, we'll start to get a bit more adventurous with our time. Right now, it's still the weeknight routines of dinners, baths and bedtimes with little time after to do much of anything.
No comments:
Post a Comment